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

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

Thu 5.9. – Mon 9. 9. 10:00 – 21:00 Uhr
Hauptplatz

A souvenir is a mostly simple thing, with which one associates a mostly complex image or sensation of a former experience — a memory. Memories appear inside a huge snowball souvenir on Hauptplatz – just view what‘s inside, or take a headphone and listen to it, or even let it snow …

We are supposed to register, restore and recall as much as possible, in order to function appropriately in our fast world of consume. What does Souvenir remind you of? is to the offer of a gentle counter pole, the invitation of a conversation between the installation, the spectators and the surrounding space.

Thu 5.9. – Mon 9. 9. 10:00 – 21:00 Uhr
Hauptplatz

Ohne großes Aufheben darum zu machen, mischt sich die Ars Electronica in das bunte Treiben auf dem traditionellen Linzer Flohmarkt am Samstagvormittag. Unscheinbar reiht sich das Festival in dieses Kabinett zeithistorischer Alltagskultur ein, wo Artefakte und Devotionalien von gestern und vorgestern zu haben sind. Das eigenwillige Sortiment, das die Ars-Electronica-VerkäuferInnen auf den Tischen ausbreiten, will als springlebendiger – und bissiger – Floh verstanden werden. Den gilt es am Festivalsamstag auf dem Hauptplatz aufzuspüren und unter dem Brennglas der geschärften Aufmerksamkeit näher in Augenschein zu nehmen.

Sat 7. 9. 7:00 – 14:00
Hauptplatz

Undergrads at Queensland University of Technology (AU), a group of youngsters associated with the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival, and various festivalgoers are going to try out a new and different form of festival documentation. Instead of filming the goings-on at the festival as neutrally, as objectively as possible, the focus this time around is going to be on a subjective, personal festival experience. Equipped with wide-angle Action Cams, they’ll be sent out into the hustle and bustle for the length of one battery charge. What they cover and how they do it is completely up to them.

Subjective Point of View

They should go out and capture what appeals to them, which is not necessarily the stuff that producers, curators and artists consider interesting and worthy of digital immortality.
Once each swarm has scoured the festival grounds for sweet images, it’s time to buzz back to the Beehive, the Mobile Ö1 Atelier on Hauptplatz. Here, they can turn in their SD cards, upload all the data, and finally view their material on the Bienenstock Monument which consists of a 30 screens installation centerpiece surrounded by a user interface and Bienenstock user terminals. The user terminals will also be distributed throughout the festival main locations where the festival punters have the opportunity to view, edit (mash) or contribute content to the project.

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Mobiles Ö1-Atelier, Hauptplatz