Ars Electronica Center

Deep Space LIVE: The Machine View – Robotic Face Cartography

Swiss advertising & press photographer Daniel Boschung maps faces. But instead of snapping the images himself, he delegates the job to an industrial robot controlled by custom-programmed software. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: Gigantic World Record – 360° Gigapixel Photography

Jeffrey Martin specializes in creating photos of cities, usually shot from the top of a tower or skyscraper. His gigapixel photos are usually 360º panorama pictures, created from thousands of individual photos that have been carefully stitched together. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: Game Changer

Game Changer is a digital game suite assembled especially for Deep Space, and consists of several multiplayer game prototypes that function only by means of players’ physical presence and movements. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: Anatta

Do the projections programmed by Victor Delev determine the movements of dancer Joanna Gruberska in Deep Space, or does her sequence of steps choreograph the visuals? Laser tracking is the medium that interlinks dancing body and software. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: Real Imaginary Objects

In Deep Space, Daniel Crooks will personally present the works he created as artist in residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The video artist endeavors to employ time as a physical material in his artistic practice, and to transcend the monitor screen to enter the domain of three-dimensional physical sculpture. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: _grau

In addition to two other works, filmmaker/media designer Robert Seidel will present in Deep Space a 3-D version of his 2004 experimental film “_grau,” Seidel’s very personal reflections of his impressions and thoughts during a car accident. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: Story Weaver – The Crane Returns a Favor

Story Weaver is a piano piece coupled with animated images. The pianist is Maki Namekawa, a native of Japan who lives in Linz. It’s based on the Japanese fable “The Crane Returns a Favor.” Deep Space’s technical infrastructure makes this performance a holistic experience. Continue reading

Prix Forum I – Computer Animation/Film/VFX

Sat 6. 9. 11:30 – 12:30 Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space with Kazuhiro Goshima (JP) (Shadowland / Award of Distinction), Joe Gerhardt (UK) (Jury member) and Jürgen Hagler (AT) (Jury member) Quayola (IT/UK) (Jury member)

Deep Space LIVE: Best of Prix 2014 – Kazuhiro Goshima

Kazuhiro Goshima personally presents two of his works: Shadowland, an honoree in the 2014 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Film / VFX category, and Tokyo Three Dimensional Suite. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: Best of Prix 2014 – The Chimera of M.

A slot all its own is set aside for the surreal 3-D animated film The Chimera of M. by Sebastian Buerkner (DE) that garnered an Honorary Mention in the Computer Animation / Film / VFX category. Continue reading