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Deep Space LIVE: Story Weaver – The Crane Returns a Favor
Story Weaver is a piano piece coupled with animated images. The pianist is Maki Namekawa, a native of Japan who lives in Linz. It’s based on the Japanese fable “The Crane Returns a Favor.” Deep Space’s technical infrastructure makes this performance a holistic experience. Continue reading
Prix Forum IV – Digital Communities
At the Prix Forum IV the winners of the Prix Ars Electronica 2014 belonging to the category “Digital Communities” will meet each other: Takeo Saijo (JP), Ole Reitov (DK) and Maria G. Perulero (ES). Moderator: Jury member Ian Banerejee (IN/AT). Continue reading
Prix Forum III – Visionary Pioneers of Media Art
The first prizewinner in the new Visionary Pioneers of Media Art category: Roy Ascott Continue reading
Prix Forum II – Interactive Art
Sat 6. 9. 13:00 – 14:30 Ursulinensaal im OÖ Kulturquartier with Paolo Cirio (IT/US) (Loophole for All / Golden Nica), Matthew Plummer-Fernandez (UK) (Disarming Corruptor / Award of Distinction) and Jacob Tonski (US) (Balance From Within / Award of Distinction) … Continue reading
Prix Forum I – Computer Animation/Film/VFX
Sat 6. 9. 11:30 – 12:30 Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space with Kazuhiro Goshima (JP) (Shadowland / Award of Distinction), Joe Gerhardt (UK) (Jury member) and Jürgen Hagler (AT) (Jury member) Quayola (IT/UK) (Jury member)
Spaxels Concept Demos
Ars Electronica Futurelab staffers have been doing R&D since 2012 on what they’ve dubbed spaxels (space pixels) – a swarm of quadcopters that can fly in precise formation and thus “draw” three-dimensional images in midair. 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
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
c – Changed Education
What’s necessary for innovation to occur? What are the preconditions for social renewal? These issues aren’t just the concern of the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival; scholars and practitioners in the field of education are working on them too. The pedagogical answers are many and varied. One especially promising one is inclusion. Continue reading
Forum of the Academy of Austrian Film
Why do you make films? The Academy of Austrian Film will pose a presumably simple question at the forum staged in conjunction with u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD this year. The tantalizing nature of the query is further heightened by the composition of the panel whose members will be responding from their very diverse perspectives. Continue reading