Festival to watch and listen
Big Concert Night
Orchestral music and digital sounds, on one hand; live electronics and visualizations on the other—since 2002, these have limned the program of the Ars Electronica Festival’s Big Concert Night produced jointly with the Brucknerhaus and the Bruckner Orchester. Continue reading
voestalpine Klangwolke 2014 – The Danube Lives!
The 2014 Klangwolke [Cloud of Sound] is centered on the Danube, a river through history, a stream of narratives, and a current in which European hopes and feelings flow. 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain that had long separated Danube neighbors Austria and Hungary, a poetic spectacle entitled Die Donau lebt! [The Danube Lives!] by Tom Roeder (DE) stages a peaceful riverside celebration. Continue reading
Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2014
The Ars Electronica Animation Festival will show 140 submitted animations for Prix Ars Electronica 2014 within ten programs. Continue reading
Electronic Theatre
Presentation of all the prizewinning works in the 2014 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Film / VFX category. Continue reading
Mirage
The eight-minute-long experience by Grinder-Man entitled “Mirage” is dedicated to an age-old yearning: the blurring of the past and future and thus the dissolution of the reality to which we’re accustomed. Continue reading
Umbrella Radio
Once unfurled, umbrellas deliver crystal-clear reception within a rather intimate range. Then it’s time to lend an ear to acoustic jewels from the Ö1 Archive, a playlist selected in accordance with the Festival theme and Ö1’s autumn “Places in Transition” series. Continue reading
Take a Number, Leave Your Head. A Cellar Club Piece with Drinks and Dada
(Deutsch) Mit Blick nach vorn greifen Klaus Obermaier und das Ars Electronica Futurelab auf eine schon historische Kunstströmung zurück, die trotz ihrer fast 100 Jahre noch immer zu bewegen vermag: die Anti-Kunstbewegung Dadaismus mit ihrer Liebe zum Archaischen und Absurden. Continue reading