Immersion, amazement, experience – In the exhibition aboard the freighter MS Wissenschaft, youngsters age 12+ can have fun exploring on their own at 38 hands-on installations. What route does a stork choose when it flies south? How can you detect a black hole with a smartphone? How does digital technology assist surgeons right in the OR? And: Can we actually get addicted to cell phones and the internet? You can get answers to all these questions in the hold of MS Wissenschaft. And if you like, you can perform experiments in the floating science center’s digital lab or even play foosball against a computer!

The Soft, the Hard and the Wet performance invites the public aboard MS Wissenschaft, walk through the Ars Electronica Center maindeck and step into the Stadtwerkstatt club to experience the wearable, the breakable and the imperishable. The three artists have each developed her project during the two weeks summer2014 residency on board Station Messschiff Eleonore. Their work examines current media art practices in a joint performance with Afroditi Psarra (soft circuit), Ce Quimera (open hardware) and Robertina Sebjanic (wet lab).

Feeling electromagnetic fields

Soft circuits utilize textiles with embedded electronic circuits, conductive materials and microcontrollers. Afroditi Psarra (Athens) develops a wearable dress that detects EMF (Electromagnetic Fields) and provides haptic and sonic feedback to the user.

Schedule

18:00 MS Wissenschaft, Heinrich Gleisner Promenade

19:00 Ars Electronica Center, Maindeck

20:00 Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4