Aarhus (DK), Berlin (DE), Brüssel (BE), Dessau (DE), Helsinki (FI), Istanbul (TR), Linz (AT), Liverpool (UK), Madrid (ES), Marseille (FR), Melbourne (AU), Montréal (CA), Riga (EE), Sao Paulo (BR), Wien (AT), Zagreb (HR)
THU September 4-MON September 8,.2014
Ars Electronica Center
Connecting Cities is a worldwide expanding network aiming to build up a connected infrastructure of media facades, urban screens and other digital projection sites to circulate artistic and socially relevant content. In opposition to the commercial use of these urban media, we use them as platforms on which citizens can exchange information and artworks – within the city as much as between cities.
This year’s theme is Participatory City, the aim of which is to get city dwellers integrated into the various projects. During the Ars Electronica Festival 2014, Linz serves as one of the Participatory City venues and shows two outstanding interactive façade projects: Entangled Sparks and Smart Citizen Sentiment Dashboard
Anyone who’s ever felt the desire to adopt a pixel can now make their dream come true thanks to Entangled Sparks.
Take a pixel with you and choose the patterns that will be showed on the media facade of the Ars Electronica Center. This workshops shows you how to do this.
You can get an impression of the feelings and attitudes of people in Linz towards the environment, mobility, security, the housing situation and the public sphere from the Smart Citizen Sentiment Dashboard (SCSD) on the Ars Electronica Center.
The transformation that the city as human habitat is now undergoing is the subject matter of The Participatory City, a focal-point theme of the Connecting Cities project. It commissioned works of art in the public sphere that are designed to open up new ways for city dwellers to interact with their metropolis and to create a critical consciousness of ongoing urban processes of change.
Connecting Cities Network initiated by Public Art Lab Berlin in co-organization with Ars Electronica Linz, Media Architecture Institute Vienna, FACT Liverpool, BIS Istanbul, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, m-cult Helsinki, Medialab-Prado Madrid, iMAL Brussels, Foundation Riga 2014 and Videospread Marseille, in association with Mutek Montreal, Marseille-Provence 2013, Aarhus University, Quartier des spectacles Montreal, Foundation Bauhaus Dessau, Verve Cultural Sao Paulo, ikono Berlin, Federation Square Melbourne; funded by the European Commission – Programme Culture..