Festival that shows

Looks Like Music

Looks Like Music is an installation centered around Yuri Suzuki’s sound piece Colour Chaser, in which a miniature robot detects and follows a black line. When it crosses colored lines it translates this data into sound. Continue reading

Momentrium

The Japanese group h.o launched their Momentrium series to collect moments with the help of illuminated arrows. Continue reading

Netykavka

In comparison to Archifon III, the major installation he produced with his artistic partner Tomáš Dvořák, Dan Gregor’s second spatial-optical encounter with the Mariendom comes across like a whimsical art historical footnote. Continue reading

Real Imaginary Objects

Daniel Crooks, Artist in Residence of Ars Electronica Futurelab, presents three-dimensional sculptures at the Future Playground as well as in the Ars Electronica Center. Continue reading

Ars Electronica Residency Network (AERN)

The Ars Electronica Futurelab has a long track record of working with artists and researchers in residence and is specialized on working on trans-disciplinary projects that are located at the nexus of art, technology and society, and has a worldwide network of collaborating partners. Continue reading

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

Featured Artists: Shinseungback Kimyonghun (KR)

The featured artists at the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival are a duo from the Republic of Korea. Since 2012, computer specialist Shin Seung Back and artist Kim Yong Hun have been working together. 10 works representative of their oeuvre are on display at Ars Electronica. Continue reading

Campus Exhibition: Interface Cultures

It’s been 10 years since Christa Sommerer (AT) and Laurent Mignonneau (FR) established the Interface Cultures program at Linz Art University. Interactive art and innovative interface design at the nexus of art, design and research are the core elements of this course of study in theory and practice. Continue reading

Campus Exhibition: ARTS² – École supérieure des Arts (BE)

ARTS² is an art academy in the city of Mons, Belgium, the 2015 European Capital of Culture. The school provides training in the visual arts, music and theater. Its multidisciplinary structure makes it the ideal place for collaborative projects by students in different majors. Continue reading

Saccade Based Display

Saccade is a technical term used by opticians and ophthalmologists to describe a certain type of eye movement: so-called visual target movements that include both spontaneous and deliberate eye movements. They’re among the fastest motions the human body makes, and are the basis of a display developed by Junji Watanabe (whereby the term display is somewhat misleading here, since this array doesn’t contain a monitor in a conventional sense). Continue reading