The Musik Kantine is a temporary record shop in the Tabakfabrik’s club canteen. It’ll be open on Friday and Saturday during the Ars Electronica Festival to host a live performance by Fadi Dorninger and listening sessions with Maximilian Meindl, Jürgen H, Ned Rise and Zanshin. The selection of CDs and vinyl on sale includes strictly limited editions, raw Techno, deep, dark House, futuristic Electro, special Experimental Electronica as well as Hiphop and Rock. Plus, a food & beverage selection will be available at the Musik Kantine Café.

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THU September 4, 2014

Café Strom, 10 PM
Fresh Cuts with Chill Ill: HipHop, Beats

Stadtwerkstatt, 11:59 PM
The Future Sound presents Jan Jelinek (Scape, Faitiche / Berlin), Simon/off b2b, Flo Doze (disko404, sub.fm / Graz), Abby Lee Tee
Bypassing the rules of traditional musicianship, Jan Jelinek prefers to construct collages from tiny sound fragments, from the lost-and-found products of samplers, tape recorders, media players and other recording implements. To this end, Jan Jelinek often works with loops and slight modulations to distil the gist of a piece of music and define it more clearly while masking its original source.

FRI September 5

Cafe Strom, 10 PM
FYUK presents Noisy Boy & Raztaz
Stwo is a young Parisian producer at a young label, hw&w, and he’s really been making a name for himself lately. What does it take to change … in his case, a good feeling for the right mix of soulful-melodious and maximally reduced beats.

SAT September 6

Stadtwerkstatt, 6 PM
Stadtwerkstatt presents The Soft, the Hard and the Wet

Café Strom, 10 PM
Plattenjoe & Matsushita: Hiphop, Organic Groove

Stadtwerkstatt, 11:59 PM
8bit A/V Show by Silver Star Liner (Chromatouch / UK), About.me
Chromatouch Dj Line: Image Recorder & Björn Büchner

SUN September 7

Café Strom, 10 PM
DJ Well & Gino

Stadtwerkstatt, 10 PM
turn | table | tennis: Nightlife, Sport & Spiel

The distance between human being and technology is decreasing. Digital technologies pervade our everyday life and our workplace, offering us a wide array of new possibilities. Here, top-name experts will discuss how digitization is changing our lives and how new solutions emerging from science and R&D are driving this development forward.

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Immersion, amazement, experience – In the exhibition aboard the freighter MS Wissenschaft, youngsters age 12+ can have fun exploring on their own at 38 hands-on installations. What route does a stork choose when it flies south? How can you detect a black hole with a smartphone? How does digital technology assist surgeons right in the OR? And: Can we actually get addicted to cell phones and the internet? You can get answers to all these questions in the hold of MS Wissenschaft. And if you like, you can perform experiments in the floating science center’s digital lab or even play foosball against a computer!

Free entrance

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Art society PARADIGMA Linz presents three different works of the Linz born artist Klaus Obermaier that have one thing in common: the change of our perception by interventions in the depiction of seemingly everyday scenes and familiar motifs.

Our perception is based on pattern recognition. Here we distinguish between two theories: the template theories assume that perceived objects are compared with objects stored in the long-term memory. In contrast, the feature theories are based on the assumption that perceived objects are analyzed and then identified by means of their “components”.

With his portraits of artists, Obermaier literally turns upside down the template approach and urges us to use additional analysis through our cognitive system. We can still identify each of the persons by their characteristics, but their facial features get a certain distance and strangeness that we know from looking in the face of an animal.

The secondary sexual characteristics exposed in the installation “BB” lose their sexual connotation due to their representation in excessive size and the repeal of the laws of physics. Thus, they transmute to virtual kinetic objects in our perception.

Obermaier’s urban landscapes do not show a depiction of a city, but instead a condensate of its appearances and realities.

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The Soft, the Hard and the Wet performance invites the public aboard MS Wissenschaft, walk through the Ars Electronica Center maindeck and step into the Stadtwerkstatt club to experience the wearable, the breakable and the imperishable. The three artists have each developed her project during the two weeks summer2014 residency on board Station Messschiff Eleonore. Their work examines current media art practices in a joint performance with Afroditi Psarra (soft circuit), Ce Quimera (open hardware) and Robertina Sebjanic (wet lab).

Feeling electromagnetic fields

Soft circuits utilize textiles with embedded electronic circuits, conductive materials and microcontrollers. Afroditi Psarra (Athens) develops a wearable dress that detects EMF (Electromagnetic Fields) and provides haptic and sonic feedback to the user.

Schedule

18:00 MS Wissenschaft, Heinrich Gleisner Promenade

19:00 Ars Electronica Center, Maindeck

20:00 Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4

How the tourism sector and the creative economy can work together and benefit from each other is the subject of a large-scale study by the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. With this workshop for invited guests, the OECD is segueing from theory to practice, as it were, and has chosen Linz during the Ars Electronica Festival as the place to do so. After all, this city has long been the setting of intensive collaboration between the cultural scene and the tourism industry, and not just since 2009 when Linz served as European Capital of Culture. Nor is it a coincidence that the Ars Electronica Center was selected as the venue.

Linz: Best Practice Example

On one hand, the Ars Electronica Festival and Center contribute mightily to Linz’s attractiveness as a destination for tourists from all over the world. On the other hand, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is a world-class creative economy success story, a think tank that has conceived and implemented countless projects including many of interest from a touristic perspective.

And that’s exactly what the workshop set for Friday in the Ars Electronica Center’s Sky Loft is all about. Following a presentation of the results of the OECD study on tourism and the creative economy, attendees will focus on outstanding examples of collaboration among entities in these two sectors.

Workshops and Festival Visit

The afternoon session will go into how creative experiences can become travel destinations and how to implement a well-functioning, cooperative working relationship between tourism professionals and people in the creative economy. Tours of the Ars Electronica Center and visits to the Ars Electronica Festival and the Linzer Klangwolke will round out the conference program.

Due to limited seating capacity, participation is possible only by pre-registration.

Schedule

THU September 4, 2014
Tabakfabrik Linz, Klub Kantine
7 PM Reception hosted by City Council Member Susanne Wegscheider
followed by a visit to the opening of the Ars Electronica Festival

FRI September 5, 2014
Ars Electronica Center, Sky Loft

9:30 AM Opening
with Elisabeth Udolf-Strobl (Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy/ AT), Elisabeth Manhal (Province of Upper Austria / AT), Bernhard Baier (Deputy Mayor of the City of Linz / AT), Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center / AT), Sergio Arzeni (OECD)

10:15 AM OECD Study of Tourism and the Creative Economy
Presentation of the most important results by Jane Stacey (OECD / IE/FR)

10:30 AM – 12:30 Creativity as Game Changer in Tourism?
with Stuart Freeman (UK), Dieter Hardt-Stremayr (Creative Austria, Graz Tourism / AT), Lianne Duif (Jheronimus Bosch 500 Foundation / NL), Christian Potiron (Pilsen 2015 European Capital of Culture / CZ), Joelle Kapompole (Member of the Belgian French-speaking Parliament, Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture / BE), Martin Sturm (OK Center for Contemporary Art / AT), Uta Hielscher ( Kulturwald and Konzerthaus Blaibach / DE), Julia Fallon (Europeana Foundation / UK)

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Dive In
in Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center with Christoph Kremer (Ars Electronica Center / AT)

2:30 PM – 4 PM Workshop 1 Creative experience as touristic destination
with Christopher Lindinger (Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT), Markus Beyr (Entrepreneur / AT), Michael Badics (Ars Electronica Solutions / AT), Erich Pröll (Nature filmmaker / AT)

Workshop 2: Creating the environment for cooperation
with Patrick Bartos (Creative Region Linz / AT), Greg Richards (OECD / UK/FR), Stefan Heinisch (Tourism Board Bad Kleinkirchheim / AT), Georg Steiner (Tourism Director, Tourism Office Linz / AT), Lianne Duif (Programme director, Jheronimus Bosch 500 Foundation Netherlands / NL), Martha Friel (Milan IULM University / IT)

4 PM – 4:30 PM Plenum and Wrap-up
with Alain Dupeyras (OECD / FR), Elisabeth Udolf-Strobl (Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy/ AT), Georg Steiner (Linz Tourism Association / AT)

6:30 PM Prix Ars Electronica Gala

SAT September 6, 2014
Opportunity to attend events, performances and exhibitions at the Ars Electronica Festival 8:30 PM Linzer Klangwolke

Automated network systems control global production and transaction processes. Increasingly digital models and virtual information regimes modify social reality. Arts and cultural workers have played an important role in shaping these new digital worlds.

Subordination to the market

But an enthusiasm for flexibility and the temporary has given way to an even stronger subordination under the market. While many forms of media culture have been forced into the Creative Industries paradigm in recent years, others have ventured into the art world and have come to terms with the White Cube and its conventions. This development seems to restrict the degrees of freedom of cultural interaction and limits the space of the possible. What logic is driving these effects and what alternatives exist?

Rhetoric of radical change

Inspired by freely available online knowledge and cheaper new production machines like 3D Printers, things which were made only in industrial plants and by specialists have moved into the realm of “doing it yourself”. A development accompanied by a rhetoric of radical change and empowerment, the practical results are mostly quaintly produced small series of more or less useful design.

Guerilla engineering

Where is guerilla engineering and civil social appropriation of know-how turning into a self-referential zone of handicraft? Viennese World-Information Institute invites to investigate these questions in the international symposium Information as Reality at LENTOS Art Museum Linz.

In cooperation with the magazine Springerin

Whenever copyright collides with the public’s interest in free access to information nowadays, online archives face numerous legal and cultural-economic challenges. The nature of the specific problems that emerge thereby and potential solutions to them are the subjects of speeches, panel discussions and workshops presented by ARCHIVIA.

Legal Issues Confronting Archives

This will be the second such conference held in Linz’s Wissensturm facility during an Ars Electronica Festival. At this conclave, archivists, scholars and government agency officials will be able to consider and discuss the legal situation currently facing online archives, mediatheques and repositories.

This conference is staged under the aegis of “Captcha,” a project financed by the EU.

Please preregister via e-mail at office@archivia.at; nevertheless, spontaneous attendance is permissible and expressly desired. Admission is free of charge.