Locations
Solutions Center
Leading an environmentally friendly lifestyle can be so simple. If you’re going to leave a room for more than three minutes in the evening, it pays to turn off the light. Or: regularly checking your tire pressure increases driving safety and saves gas. Continue reading
ZeitRaum / New York
ZeitRaum [TimeSpace] is an interactive art installation Ars Electronica Futurelab developed for Vienna International Airport’s new Skylink terminal. It interprets arriving and departing flights in real time. ZeitRaum consists of several individual stations that accompany passengers on the way to their gate. Continue reading
Virtuelles Ohr
This exhibit developed in cooperation with the MED-EL company stages a virtual journey through the human ear. Continue reading
Laser Game
Laser Game, an installation designed for an upcoming exhibition in Berlin, sets up a scenario à la “Mission: Impossible” for users to test their agility. Have you got what it takes to go all the way without getting zapped by a laser beam? Continue reading
Rag Shopping Wall
In cooperation with Umdasch Shopfitting, Europe’s leading shop design firm, fashion retailer RAG and electronics giant Samsung, Ars Electronica Solutions developed this interactive Shopping Wall that lets customers browse a product portfolio in a variety of ways. Continue reading
Light is Time Folds Are Space
Light Is Time Folds Are Space are a new body of works by Matthew Gardiner that examine the relationships between light, folds and space. The works are code generated folded sculptures, fold mapped DNA-like structures, morphed with the systematic movement of light. Continue reading
Opening
The grand finale of the elaborate Opening Parcours is the official opening event of the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival, a not so ceremonious and rather more playful-sensorial form of entertainment in St. Mary’s Cathedral and on the plaza in front of it. Continue reading
Opening Parcours
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. Continue reading
Braun Tube Jazz Band
It all began with a very fruitful mistake: Japanese artist/musician Ei Wada mistakenly connected a sound cable to a video port and thereby transformed sound into an image. Wada proceeded to take advantage of the fortuitous happenstance by recording the image with a camera and playing it back as an audio signal. Continue reading
Learn to be a Machine | DistantObject #1
Learn to be a Machine | DistantObject #1 is an abstract system of obedience and manipulation. The video installation features a representation of the artist himself, who has provided a means for the audience to interact with the system. By scrolling a trackball, the audience can manipulate the direction of the artist’s eyes. Continue reading