Fri 6. 9.
Ars Electronica Quarter
A heavily diversified and jam-packed program will make the Ars Electronica Center and the surrounding Ars Electronica Quarter the center of gravity of the festival on Friday.
Candlescape and Hyperform will be the first of several fascinating workshops in FabLab. In the afternoon, the airy art dome Sphæræ features performances by artists like Mariska de Groot (NL), Dieter Vandoren (NL) and Paul Prudence (UK). The Ars Electronica Futurelab’s studio is hosting the world premiere of the crossmedia dance performance Resonate by Aakash Odedra (UK) and Lewis Major (AU). With the Futurelab’s support, they found a way to translate the verbal perceptions of people with legasthenia into audiovisual terms and movements.
Program for Young People
There’s lots happening at the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Future Festival of the Next Generation in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD’s Danube-side festival village—for instance the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Prix Ars Electronica focus on Friday. The Austrian Film Academy (AT) invites you to a round-table featuring prominent participants discussing young media designers’ approaches to the medium of film. Actor/director Karl Markovics (AT) will moderate. For refreshments right on site, head for the Espressomobil and the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD-Gastro.
Highlights at Deep Space Live
The manual acrobatics of Dennis Russell Davies (US/AT) and Maki Namekawa (JP/AT) performing Stravinsky’s version of The Rite of Spring for four hands on the piano will be the first of this year’s highlights in Deep Space. Students at the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus (AT) will install two virtual, interactive worlds entitled Mind Games. A cosmos in its own right, HR Giger’s World opens in Deep Space—after dark, appropriately enough. HR Giger (CH), featured artist at Ars Electronica 2013, will join curator Andreas Hirsch (AT) for an excursion through his artistic universe, depicted as never before in ultrahigh-definition, gigapixel images.
Linz – Istanbul – Linz
After sunset, the Connecting Cities façade projection coalition will simultaneously screen Connecting Monsters on the Ars Electronica Center’s media façade and a digital wall on Beşiktaş Square in Istanbul (TR). The Ars Electronica Nightline 2013 hosted by Camila Fuchs (UK) and Anna Leiser (AT) will run into the wee hours.
Fri 6. 9.
Ars Electronica Quarter
