CAT@Ars Electronica

Seon Hwan Jeon, CEO of CTIA Chungnam Culture Technology Industry Agency introduces the joint residency program between Ars Electronica and CTIA. The first residency of this program has taken place this year in summer. The outcome, is a sound installation based on wave field synthesis called Planted by Young Sun Kim (KR) introduces his artwork.

TRANSMIT³ Residency at QUT

Lubi Thomas (AU), Curator of The Cube at the Queensland University of Technology (AU), talks about the joint residency program with Ars Electronica and especially presents the current residency of Zachary Lieberman (US) at The Cube.

Collide@CERN

Ryoji Ikeda (JP) is this year’s Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN-winner. The first part of his residency at CERN in July has been a completely new experience for him and provided him with loads of new perspectives, impressions, data, and experiences. It is an extremely rare occasion to have this outstanding artist talking about his art and experiences as he always wants to have his art speaking and not him. Though visitors will have a unique chance to see and hear him talk. His inspiration partner at CERN, Tom Melia (UK), a CERN physicist, will also talk about the collision of art and science, his work as theoretical physicist and how this collision affected him. Ariane Koek (UK), creator of Collide@CERN, Horst Hörtner (AT) and Claudia Schnugg (AT) will shortly introduce the program.

[the next idea] voestalpine art and technology grant

Markus Schmeiduch (AT) presents the 2014 winning project BlindMaps, an interface using a touch-sensitive haptic technology to enable visually impaired people to obtain routing, focusing on the progress made during his residency at Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Introduction and moderation: Claudia Schnugg (Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT)

BlindMaps is an R&D project that aims to come up with navigation aids to make it easier and safer for blind people to get around in cities they’re unfamiliar with. The approach: not a system providing verbal output, but rather one that uses a Braille-script-type touchscreen supported by popular online maps and the capabilities of a smartphone.

Schmeiduch, Spitz and van der Vleuten are this year’s recipients of [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant to enable them to further develop this promising approach during a three-month residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.