Program
iPhone Quick-Draw System
Draw! The iPhone Quick-Draw System that the Japan Media Arts Festival is presenting in the Future Innovators Exhibit will add a whiff of the Wild West to the high-gloss world of modern media. Continue reading
Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise
Questioning everything we perceive, the art project Infinite Screen is focused on the illusionary surface of images, researching the light impulse inside the hidden alphabet of invisible red, blue and green light pixels which make up all surrounding digital information, virtual image and text. Continue reading
Digital unterwegs
Immersion, amazement, experience—In the exhibition aboard the freighter MS Wissenschaft, youngsters can have fun exploring on their own at hands-on installations. Continue reading
Pilsen 2015 Bus
The bus, a charming goodwill ambassador representing Pilsen, 2015 European Capital of Culture, has been on the road for quite a while now. Continue reading
Ars Electronica Gala
An evening with the crème de la crème of the digital arts – a highlight of the 2014 Ars Electronica Gala will be the ceremony at which the Golden Nica statuettes are bestowed upon the Prix Ars Electronica prizewinners. Continue reading
Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?
A piece of no-man’s-land in Japan that belonged to France until 2009 when it reverted to Japan, which will possess it until 2059 when it re-reverts to France—this geo-political oddity reminded Aki Inomata of the behavior of hermit crabs and inspired him to create this work. After all, hermit crabs cast off their shell when they outgrow them. Continue reading
your unerasable text
The opposite of data storage is data destruction. How close these two are to one another is graphically and amusingly illustrated by your unerasable text. The processual chain commences when a festivalgoer sends an SMS to the installation’s cell phone, and it’s forwarded to a computer. Continue reading
Fluid Dress
Fluid Dress is a futuristic designer garment that enables its wearer to spontaneously display brief messages or express moods. Continue reading
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
Delta-Figure
hose minute variations reify a living thing and provide it with its presence; even though the movements are minute, they are still highly complex. Robots that perform or do work, plus other kinetic artistic expression, would simplify or ignore entirely those minute variations. Continue reading