Sensarium Dome is an intelligent recliner that can interact with its user via various sensors, and adapt its fulldome program to his/her behavior and biofeedback. The showcase at the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival invites festivalgoers to get acquainted with it, and to submit creations to the Sphere of Light competition staged to acknowledge and reward innovative content for the fulldome space that increases the user’s mental and emotional wellbeing.

The Highlights Tour provides an overview of the Ars Electronica Center’s top attractions. An expert tour guide accompanies you through all exhibition areas to experience “New Views of Humankind.” The itinerary includes Deep Space, high-definition graphics like you’ve never seen before!

Device Art deploys novel materials and techniques to create high-tech appliances featuring sophisticated, cool design. The objects’ inherent convergence of technology, art and design calls into questions conventional paradigms operational in the art world. Meet the artists personally during the Artist Talks within the exhibition Device Art at the Ars Electronica Center.

Device Art – Artist talk on the venue

Meeting point: THU September 4, 2014, 4 PM-5 PM, Ars Electronica Center, level +1
Artist talk with
Hideyuki Ando + Junji Watanabe
Masahiko Inami + Kentarou Yasu
Eric Siu
Scott Hessels
Jaehyuck Bae
Martina Mezak
Anselmo Tumpić
Sašo Sedlaček
Sanela Jahić
Olga Majcen Linn
Sandra Sajovic

Meeting point: FRI September 5, 2014, 3 PM-4 PM, Ars Electronica Center, level -3
Artist talk with
Hiroo Iwata
Novmichi Tosa
Ryota Kuwakubo
Kenji Suzuki + Dushyantha Jayatilake

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Kicking off the festival is an elaborate Opening Parcours presenting all projects and festival venues, and thus a perfect opportunity to get an overview and to meet & greet artists and curators.

Program

11 AM
Device Art
Ars Electronica Center

12 PM
Deep Space Live: Story Weaver – The Crane Returns a Favor
Maki Mamekawa (JP), Chiaki Ishikawa (JP), Emiko Ogawa (JP/AT), Naohiro Hayaishi (JP), Tetsuro Yasunaga (JP), Hideaki Ogawa (JP/At)
Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space

1 PM
ARTS² – École Supérieure des Arts
Kunstuniversiät Hauptplatz

2 PM
Interface Cultures: The 10th Anniversary
Raumschiff, Strafsachen

3 PM
Mobiles Ö1 Atelier
Hauptplatz

3:45 PM
u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD
u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festivalstadt, Akademisches Gymnasium

4:15 PM
Buddha on the Beach
Akademisches Gymnasium

4:45 PM
Future Innovators Summit
Akademisches Gymnasium, New Building

5:30 PM
Change Gallery
Arkade

6 PM
CyberArts 2014 Opening
OK im OÖ Kulturquartier

7:30 PM
Sonotopia – Die klingende Stadt
Anatol Bogendorfer, Peter Androsch (Hörstadt / AT)
Bischhofshof

8:30 PM
Festival Opening
Mariendom, Domplatz

Ravel Landscapes blends imagery by visual artists Quayola und Sinigaglia with the music of Maurice Ravel as performed by French piano virtuosa Vanessa Wagner. A sophisticated computer program analyzes the polyphonic piano music and transforms it into complex pictorial compositions. The audience goes on an excursion between the worlds of consciousness and sub-consciousness, the real and the imaginary.

Producer: Keri Elmsly
Technical Manager: Benoit Simon

Kristefan Minski (AU/AT) and Roland Krenn (AT) present a first raw cut of the big “Take a Chance, Take a Change” LipDub, screen backstage photos and elaborate on the making of the video composed of sequences shot by hundreds of individuals.

The very best of the regular Deep Space program at the Ars Electronica Center.

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Touching seeks to propagate sound in space and to carry on a dialog – of the two performers with one another as well as with the space and the sound. They animate, spatialize and modify concrete tonal material and interlink it with visuals designed especially for this performance.

Johannes Kretz: Laptop, Sensoren/Sensors, Software
Veronika Simor: Keyboard, Laptop, Controller
In cooperation with MUSIK IM RAUM

MON September 8 2014, 3 PM: Kino5 – Open Film Lab
Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space

The grand finale of this year’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD will be a review of all the cool stuff that went on over the past four days on Spittelwiese and a presentation of what was developed at Youtube:Lab and Film:Lab, by and with Kino5 and under the motto of Animate Your City.

u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival

Painter/actionist Hermann Nitsch, one of the most important contemporary artists, is making a guest appearance in Deep Space. All the highpoints of Nitsch’s oeuvre – Viennese actionism, his famous splatter paintings, the Orgiastic Mystery Theater—have triggered heated discussions. At Ars Electronica, the artist—who has otherwise had nothing to do will digital media—will present a few of his works in digitized and highly enlarged format, whereby the high-definition projections reveal structures and details that can’t be seen with the naked eye.

ATTENTION: Seating is limited. Seat reservation tickets will be available at the Ars Electronica Center Infodesk beginning one hour before the performance.