Akademisches Gymnasium

Lapillus Bug

Lapillus Bug is an atomic creature that hovers over a breakfast plate. An inorganic particle is trapped in mid-air by ultrasonic sound waves. This bug, which looks a bit like a fruit fly, flies about quivering. The bug also likes to play with humans and displays various types of behavior, reacting to illuminated lights and to objects placed on the plate. Continue reading

SchuhzuGehör_path of awareness linz 2014

Depending of the kind of soles on walkers’ shoes and the composition of the surface they’re walking on, their particular gait produces a distinctive sound. Walk through the city with katrinem and your ears. Continue reading

The C-School

C-School is the Diotima Society’s answer to the emerging need of a dynamic knowledge gate. The C-School is an educational path, new and timeless, bridging the heritage of the classic Scholè with the oncoming era of shifting paradigms, its complexity and unexpected consequences. It is a permanent open-lab, consistent with a new idea of wealth, where processes are generating meaning, more than producing needs and goods. Continue reading

u19 Exhibit

Film is the theme of the 2014 u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Future Festival of the Next Generation. And that’s a happy happenstance, since this year’s Golden Nica winner in the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category, Sarah Oos, is being honored for “Femme Chanel – Emma Fenchel”, a film montage that makes use of found footage. Continue reading

u19 Ceremony – Prix Ars Electronica Walk of Fame!

We say: If you’re gonna stage an awards ceremony, then do it right! The 2014 winners in the Prix Ars Electronica’s category for young people won’t be receiving only trophies and certificates. For the first time this year, they’ll also be immortalized on a Walk of Fame. Continue reading

Buddha on the Beach

Contemporary life is full of rapid changes, the virtual collides with reality, chaos is the ultimate master. In the current digital era, we are overloaded with information yet lack the wisdom to process it. We know everything, yet are still lost. Continue reading

Future Innovators Summit

A project of Future Catalysts Ars Electronica (AT), Hakuhodo (JP), in cooperation with ITU Telecom – International Telecommunication Union THU September 4-SUN September 7, 2014 Linz, Austria Akademisches Gymnasium (main location) / Future Innovators Exhibition Arkadenhof, PAUL’S küche.bar.greisslerei, Sparkasse Oberösterreich, … Continue reading