Without making a big deal about it, Ars Electronica is joining in the vibrant hustle & bustle at Linz’s traditional Saturday morning flea market. The Festival aims to keep a low profile in this colorful showcase of the culture of everyday life in bygone days, amidst the buyers and sellers of artifacts and memorabilia from yesterday and yesteryear. The odd assortment of merchandise that the Ars Electronica sales force will be hawking is meant as a flea that’s got a lot of jump and bite in it. On Festival Saturday on Linz’s Main Square, you can go through the whole lot with a fine-tooth comb.

Hauptplatz
Sat 7.9. 07:00 – 14:00

Enjoy interactive flights in 3-D through the entire known universe in breathtaking images and experience the dimensions of space like never before.

http://www.scalingtheuniverse.com
credits: SCISS

Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space
Thu 5.9. – Mon 9.9. 10:00

Ever since he was young, dancer, choreographer and inventor Huang Yi (TW) has been interested in the relationship—you could even say partnership—between humans and robots. He integrates photography, videos and mechanical elements into his pieces, which blend dance, a diversified visual world, technology and machines into choreographies in which both form and content go far beyond the conventional repertoire of the performing arts. Huang Yi thinks of himself as a dancing instrument. The continuous movements in his pieces correspond to the flow of data.

Dancing like a Machine

In the prizewinning three-minute performance entitled Huang Yi & KUKA, Huang Yi’s dance partner is a robot produced by the German manufacturer KUKA:.
“Dancing face to face with a KUKA robot is like looking at my face in a mirror. I make KUKA mimic my movements, and I learn from him, I make myself dance like a machine.”

Ars Electronica Gala
Fri 6. 9. 21:30
Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal

Supported by KUKA
In cooperaton with Quanta Arts Foundation

The Spaxels are flying again, both on Friday and Sunday they are going to perform to shows.

Both shows were created for robotronica by the QUT in Brisbane. The flights, which where the Spaxels-Premiere in the southern hemisphere on August 18th 2013, will be accompied by the original score.

Stunt 1
The Kangaroo-Cat
Didgeridoo: Adrian Fabila aka Tjupurru (http://topshelf.com.au/tjupurru/ )
Electronic Music: 7bit Hero (www.7bithero.com)

Stunt 2
Spartacus
Aram Khachaturian

Ars Electronica Quarter
Fri 6.9.2013 20:30
Sun 8.9.2013 20:30

Wolfgang Fadi Dorninger’s Aural Memory Machine is an six-channel sound installation. Festivalgoers and other visitors to Linz’s St. Mary’s Cathedral—with or without a musical background or technical skills—are the ones who play it. All they have to do is enter any text they want using a Midi keyboard at one of eight terminals on site. In real time, the texts launch field recordings of the acoustic surroundings, which are grouped into various thematic clusters.

Text or Sound – or Both?

Up to eight sound designers can simultaneously explore the potential of the Aural Memory Machine. They must constantly decide whether they want to produce text or code, or participate in the design of a temporary acoustic environment in the Cathedral—or both.

Nightly Concert

The culminating highlight is a nightly concert by Wolfgang Fadi Dorninger, Petra Anlanger (AT), Richard Eigner (AT), Georg Edlinger (AT), Volker Kagerer (AT) and Wolfgang Kreuzhuber (AT) and associates, in which they use the same instruments as visitors but play a predetermined repertoire: selected texts from the Ars Electronica Catalog.

Mariendom

Sa 7. 9. 12:00 – 17:00, 20:00-23:00, Live-Performance: 23:00 – 24:00
Mariendom

Presentation of all the prizewinning works in the 2013 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation/Film/VFX category.
Filming and photographing during the Electronic Theater screenings is prohibited.

Hauptplatz
Sat 7. 9. 21:00

Kurt Hörbst (AT)

Upper Austrian photographer Kurt Hörbst’s full-body scans reconnoiter the surfaces covering and adorning the human body in search of remarkable details. His imaging technique is an intentional deceleration of high-speed digital photography. The portrait subjects lay flat on the floor while they’re digitally scanned, one pass after another, by a high-definition digital camera. The subjects have to freeze and maintain their pose for one to two minutes.

Ars Electronica Center, Foyer

The full-body scnans are also shown in Deep Space:
Thu 5.9. – Sun 8.9. 14:30

people_scan LIVE SCANS

Kurt Hörbst will scan you during these times:

Fr 6.9. 15:00 – 18:00
Sa 7.9. 15:00 – 18:00

Nicolas Bernier (CA)
Golden Nica Digital Musics & Sound Art

frequencies (a) is a sound performance combined with light. It blends digital sounds with the crystal-clear tones of a tuning fork. By means of computer-controlled magnetic vents, Bernier imparts precise strikes to a tuning fork. This is accompanied by the pulsating of glistening lights, and the space is filled by a composition of light and sound.

OK Offenes Kulturhaus im OÖ Kulturquartier
Sat 7.9. 21:30

2013 [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant winners Marcelo Coelho (BR), Skylar Tibbits (US), Natan Linder (IL) and Yoav Reches (IL) join Matthew Gardiner (AU/AT) from the Ars Electronica Futurelab to demonstrate Hyperform, their innovative 3-D printing process to produce foldable elements.

Ars Electronica Center, FabLab
Fri, 6.9. 12:00 – 16:00

Nukeme (JP)
Glitch Embroidery is a computer-controlled embroidery machine that works with the overwritten data of such a device. The damaged code interrupts the flow of the needles’ activity and produces small imperfections. These glitches, the outcome of data that despite being damaged are still legible, are applied to the embroidered fabric.

Ars Electronica Center, FabLab
Thu 5.9. 13:00 – 15:00
Sat 7.9. 13:00 – 15:00