Author Archives: Michael Knoll
Covex
Joris Stribos (NL) & Yamila Rios Manzanares (NL) An extended cello performance interplays with a meticulous constellation of laser beams shot trough transparent objects. http://jorisstrijbos.nl/; http://www.yamilarios.com/ Sun 8.9. 17:00 – 17:30 Ars Electronica Quarter / Sphæræ
On Growth and Data
Martijn van Boven (NL) The simple system of a closed feedback loop is developed, transformed, mutated, translated and after each iteration, it is mirrored and compared with real life strings of biological data available through online databases such as Genbank. … Continue reading
Pikträt
Doris Graf interviews visitors to the Ars Electronica Festival and creates pictograms out of the qualities and characteristics of her interlocutors. Continue reading
Digital Quarter Century_ShelTeR – Station Rose (AT) – Exhibition
The installation Digital Quarter Century_ShelTeR shows 25 years of Station Rose (AT), famous Austrian digital media artists. Continue reading
Book signing with HR Giger
HR Giger is signing books in the LENTOS. Continue reading
HR Giger – The Art of Biomechanics
The exhibition in Linz’s Lentos Art Museum features paintings, drawings, films and sculptures that reveal the development of Giger’s biomechanical style. Accompanied by original props, design sketches and the Alien Diaries, the exhibition traces his career from the Necronom cycle from the 1970s to Alien and all the way to Prometheus, Giger’s latest design—once again for a film by Ridley Scott. Continue reading
HR Giger – Gigapixelpictures – Talk with Giger and Andreas Hirsch
HR Giger presents his works in the ultra-high-resolution-format of the Deep Space. Continue reading
Big Concert Night
Orchestermusik und digitale Klänge einerseits, Live-Elektronik und Visualisierungen andererseits sind die Programmelemente der Großen Konzertnacht. Zu hören sind das Bruckner Orchester Linz unter Dennis Russell Davies u. a. mit der 10. Sinfonie von Philip Glass, der Vibrafonist David Friedman, die Medienkünstler Bill Fontana und Roberto Paci Dalo sowie das Duo Carl Stone und Gil Kuno. Das elektronische Finale bestreiten re-lay & 19 hertz plus Daito Manabe und Satoru Higa. Continue reading
GameStage @ Ars Electronica
(Deutsch) Computerspiele sind inzwischen nicht nur Teil unseres kulturellen Gedächtnisses, sondern haben entscheidend zur Entwicklung größerer Speicherkapazitäten („Memory“) und schnellerer Prozessoren beigetragen. Anlass, dem Gaming einen umfangreichen Festivalschwerpunkt zu widmen. Continue reading