OK im OÖ Kulturquartier – Post City

CyberArts 2015

raphaelgi — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:11:52 +0000

Here’s a close-up look at the technical and aesthetic state of the art. The CyberArts 2015 exhibition is one of the highlights of the Ars Electronica Festival: a showcase of outstanding works singled out for recognition by the 2015 Prix Ars Electronica.

In the category Computer Animation / Film / VFX

Temps Mort/ Idle Times
Alex Verhaest (BE)
(Golden Nica)
Alex Verhaest’s (BE) works are visual explorations and investigations of the nature and boundaries of language, communication and social conventions and the potential of contemporary storytelling. Her highly pictorial work operates by the juxtaposition of painting, video and contemporary technology.

Augmented Hand Series
Golan Levin (US), Kyle McDonald (US), Chris Sugrue (US)
(Honorary Mention)
The Augmented Hand Series is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors’ hands.

In the category Hybrid Art

Plantas Autofotosintéticas
Gilberto Esparza (MX)
(Golden Nica)
This symbiotic system re-imagines the management of sewage in order to salvage its potential as a source of energy.

ARTSAT1:Invader
ARTSAT: Art and Satellite Project (JP)
(Award of Distinction)
On February 28, 2014 , the world’s first art satellite, ARTSAT1:Invader was launched as a piggyback payload on the H-IIA F23 launch vehicle, and inserted into a non-sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 378 km and inclination of 65 degrees. Invader, a 10 cm cube 1U-CubeSat with a mass of 1.85 kg continued its steady operation on orbit, successfully performs an array of artistic missions by commands from the main ground station at Tama Art University.

Teacup Tools
Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE)
(Award of Distinction)
Teacup Tools is an array of cybernetic teacups, adapting themselves to the realm of climate-related sciences. The work appears as a multifunctional tool for the investigation of micro clouds above tea, for communication and for tea drinking.

Drosophila titanus
Andy Gracie (UK)
(Honorary Mention)
Drosophila titanus is an ongoing and long-term project which through a process of experimentation and artificial selection aims to breed a species of the fruit fly, drosophila, that would theoretically be capable of living on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

Hare´s Blood +
Klaus Spiess (AT), Lucie Strecker (DE)
(Honorary Mention)
Klaus Spiess (AT) and Lucie Strecker (DE) salvage DNA in order to compose mnemonic devices that diversify cultural memory. In their projects DNA stemming from biological relics of knowing animals which have been key figures in relevant scenarios within the arts, sciences, philosophy and genetics, i.e. the DNA from Beuys’ hare, Freud’s Chow-Chow, Derrida’s cat, as well as from a laboratory worm.

Mirage
Ralf Baecker (DE)
(Honorary Mention)
Mirage is a projection apparatus that makes uses of principles from optics and artificial neural network research. *Mirage* generates a synthesized landscape based on its perception through a fluxgate magnetometer (Förster Sonde).

Myconnect
Saša Spačal (SI), Mirjan Švagelj (SI), Anil Podgornik (SI)
(Honorary Mention)
Myconnect is an interspecies connector that emerged as an aspiration to enable human beings to transgress their own species and connect with another at a perceptive and physiological level. By entering the installation one joins with the otherness, another multiplicity i.e. the fungal mycelium.

PSX Consultancy
Pei-Ying Lin (TW), Špela Petrič (SI), Dimitrios Stamatis (GR), Jasmina Weiss (SI)
(Honorary Mention)
The PSX Consultancy project conceives augmentations for vegetal species to enhance the given client’s natural reproductive processes. In other words, it make sex toys for plants.

ReBioGeneSys – Origins of Life
Adam W. Brown (US), Robert Root-Bernstein (US)
(Honorary Mention)
A hybrid installation (process) that combines sculpture, chemistry, alchemy and conservation to create autonomous extreme minimal ecosystems capable of autopoetic evolution.

Satelliten
Quadrature (DE)
(Honorary Mention)
Accessing information about the positions and paths of satellites through a database maintained by the US Air Force, the drawing machine Satelliten keeps a record of the sheer number of satellite flyovers in regard to its own location. In a square of approximately 10 sq. cm, the machine traces their lines in real time until the distant object leaves our horizon again. Satelliten uses its own position coordinates as a starting point and old paper maps of the area as a base for its drawings.

Stranger Visions
Heather Dewey-Hagborg (US)
(Honorary Mention)
In Stranger Visions Heather Dewey-Hagborg (US) creates portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material collected in public spaces.

Welt-Klimakonferenz
Rimini Protokoll (Haug, Kaegi, Wetzel/DE)
(Honorary Mention)
In this theatrical re-enactment of one of the most important formats of contemporary political and scientific discourse, the 650 audience members were invited to represent the 196 delegations of the original “conferences of the parties.”

In the category Digital Musics & Sound Art

Chijikinkutsu
Nelo Akamatsu (JP)
(Golden Nica)
Chijikinkutsu is a coinage especially created for the title of this work by combining two Japanese words: “chijiki” (= geomagnetism) and “suikinkutsu” (= a sound installation for Japanese traditional gardens). *Chijikinkutsu* is made using water, sewing needles, glass tumblers and coils of copper wire.

Drumming is an Elastic Concept.
Staged solo concert for percussion and electronics
Josef Klammer (AT)
(Award of Distinction)
Instead of the usual plastic drumheads, Josef Klammer (AT) uses latex skins for percussion in this piece. As a result, the drumbeats were slowed down and stretched, until only the “breathing” of the drum was audible.

::vtol:: oil
Dmitry Morozov (RU)
(Honorary Mention)
The installation consists of five hydraulic presses, capable of crushing practically any object (a mobile phone, a pair of glasses, headphones or whatever). In the process of destruction, a special microphone records the sounds made as the object undergoes deformation, and a computer algorithm transforms them into a 20-minute album.

UNDER WAY
Douglas Henderson (US)
(Award of Distinction)
UNDER WAY metaphorically transposes the building which houses it into a ship at sea, and sets those who encounter it free on a voyage to uncharted shores.

Electromechanical Modular
Gijs Gieskes (NL)
(Honorary Mention)
A mechanical sequencer was the first instrument that industrial designer Gijs Gieskes (NL) came up with in the late 1990s. Now, he’s applied technical insights and experience gained in the meantime to reconfigure it.

Rawr! A Study in Sonic Skulls
Courtney Brown (US), Sharif Razzaque (US)
(Honorary Mention)
This work is an interactive sound installation and musical instrument based on imagining the sounds of a lambeosaurine hadrosaur, duck-billed dinosaurs known for their large head crests, which researchers hypothesize were resonators for vocal calls.

Tipping Point
Kathy Hinde (UK)
(Honorary Mention)
Tipping Point invites us to consider our relationship with water and the need to balance how we use the world’s water resources. The installation is created using a delicate combination of glass, water, audio feedback and lighting.

Soft Revolvers garnered an Honorary Mention for Myriam Bleau (CA) in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category. It’s on the program lined up for OK Night

In the category Visionary Pioneers of Media Art

Jeffrey Shaw (AU/HK)
(Golden Nica)
Jeffrey Shaw (AU/HK) is recognized as one of the most important pioneers of interactive art. He has powerfully influenced the creation of virtual environments and new innovative user interfaces. Shaw’s work spans a period of half a century and still continues to do so.

In the category u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD

Inside & Between
Gabriel Radwan (AT)
(Golden Nica)
Among the projects Gabriel Radwan (AT) completed as a student at Linz’s High School for Artistic Design is a stop-motion film inspired by Roger Waters’ compositions for The Wall. His film features a soundtrack he composed and engineered himself. As in the Pink Floyd album that was its inspiration, the film’s protagonist, an obsessed painter, immerses himself ever deeper into a world of his own making.

In the category [the next idea] voestalpine art and technology grant

SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE
XXLab (ID): Irene Agrivina Widyaningrum, Asa Rahmana, Ratna Djuwita, Eka Jayani Ayuningtias, Atinna Rizqiana
SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE is a research-based product development by XXLab. The research aim is to grow and program an alternative energy, food and bio material from liquid soya waste using bacteria and tissue culture.

Ars Electronica Blog

“This year’s Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica recipients are all outstanding. Above all, the grand prize winner in the Hybrid Art category, Plantas Autofotosintéticas by Gilberto Esparza, is an excellent work because it’s a socio-politically relevant project and one that applies art to real life.” Read more on the Ars Electronica Blog!

Prix Forum II – Visionary Pioneers of Media Art

raphaelgi — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:03:59 +0000

At the Prix Ars Electronica Forums, 2015 honorees will talk about their works, motifs and motivations. In accordance with the Art & Science motto, the proceedings at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival will focus on the interplay and reciprocal impact of science and art.
The site of these encounters among artists and scientists is once again the Ursulinensaal at OÖ Kulturquartier.

Anne-Marie Duguet (FR)
Jeffrey Shaw (AU/HK) (Golden Nica)
Moderator: Erkki Huhtamo (FI/US)

Prix Forum III – Digital Musics & Sound Art

raphaelgi — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:03:24 +0000

Nelo Akamatsu (JP) (Chijikinkutsu, Golden Nica)
Josef Klammer (AT) (Drumming is an Elastic Concept, Award of Distinction)
Douglas Henderson (US) (UNDER WAY, Award of Distinction)
Moderator: Seppo Gründler (AT)

Prix Forum IV – Hybrid Art

raphaelgi — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:02:36 +0000

Gilberto Esparza (MX) (Plantas Autofotosintéticas, Golden Nica)
Akihiro Kubota (JP) (ARTSAT1:Invader, Award of Distinction)
Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE) (Teacup Tools, Award of Distinction)
Moderator: Victoria Vesna (US)

Ars Electronica Blog

“Such experiments also generate the need to interact with specialists from different areas that are exploring new lines of inquiry and research for the development of devices and fostering of new knowledge, all with the goal of creating a more sustainable planet.” Read more on the Ars Electronica Blog!

Prix Forum V – Residency Artists

raphaelgi — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:01:55 +0000

Ryoji Ikeda (JP) (Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN 2014)
Irene Agrivina (ID) (SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE, [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant)
Maria Ignacia Edwards (CL) (art & science Residency Award @ ESO 2015)
Semiconductor (UK) (Collide@CERN Ars Electronica Award 2015)
Moderator: Mónica Bello (ES)

Prix Forum VI – Art & Science Round Table

raphaelgi — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:00:31 +0000

Fernando Comerón (ES), Victoria Vesna (US), Mónica Bello (ES), Michael Doser (AT), Jurij Krpan (SI), Jens Hauser (DE), Nahum (MX), Ale de la Puente (MX)
Moderator: Gerfried Stocker (AT)

CyberArts 2015 Tour

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:00:24 +0000

Join the tour through the Cyberarts exhibition in the OK im OÖ Kulturquartier that showcases works singled out for recognition by the Prix Ars Electronica. In 2015, the competition was staged in the following categories: Computer Animation/Film/VFX, Hybrid Art, Digital Musics & Sound Art, Visionary Pioneers of Media Art, and u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD.

Infos

Meeting point: Infodesk OK im OÖ Kulturquartier (Map)

Duration: 1 hour

Language: German

Please note: Tickets available at the OK im OÖ Kulturquartier

FRI, September 4, 2015

1:30 PM

German

6:30 PM

German

SAT, September 5, 2015

1:30 PM

German

6:30 PM

German

SUN, September 6, 2015

1:30 PM

German

6:30 PM

German

MON, September 7, 2015

1:30 PM

German

6:30 PM

German

OK Night

Magdalena Sick-Leitner — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 12:41:50 +0000

A perennial favorite of music- and art-loving night owls, OK Night includes a performance-studded tour of the CyberArts 2015 exhibition that’s remaining open until 10 PM, numerous live and DJ sets in both alfresco (OK Plaza) and indoor (Solaris) settings, as well as the opportunity to take in one more session at Electronic Theatre and enjoy outstanding works submitted for Prix Ars Electronica prize consideration.

CyberArts 2015

Guided tour with the OK staff
20:00 – 20:20: Rawr! A Study in Sonic Skulls
Brückenstudio
20:25 – 20:40: Electromechanical Modular
3. OG – Foyer, balcony
20:50 – 21:15: Tipping Point
Dachboden
21:30 – 22:00: Soft Revolvers
U-Hof, Hall

Electronic Theatre
20:00 – 21:30: Höhenrausch, Summer Cinema
21:45 – 23:15 Uhr: Moviemento, Movie 2

Live
21:00 – 21:30: Odd (Klub Sir3ne, Wien/AT)
21:30 – 22:30: Fontarrian (Antime/Disko404, Graz/AT)

Solaris DJs
Davi dB & Der Fux (Salopp!/Jhruza rec./AT)

metamusic

Magdalena Sick-Leitner — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:13:27 +0000

In an expansive aviary especially constructed for Höhenrausch 2015, a group of nineteen grey parrots and two Amazon parrots have taken up residence for the entire duration of the exhibition. Together with the artists alien productions (Martin Breindl, Norbert Math und Andrea Sodomka) and caretakers they playfully explore mechanical and electronic instruments and sound devices. These have been especially designed for them and are continually modified and further developed. In addition, the artists perform with their feathered partners in a special concert series.

Music Monday – Presentations at OK

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:11:47 +0000

A whole day full of music and sounds! Ars Electronica dedicates the last day of the Festival to sound installations. Lecture-performances offer deeper insights into the works of music and sound art that were presented over the last four days. Media artist/musicologist Werner Jauk (AT) opens the program with an introduction to PostCity sounds and post-sounds. In doing so, he scrutinizes soundscapes not only as natural phenomena but also as intentional compositions of event-spaces and thus considers the configuring relationships among movement, sound and space. Theory makes the transition into practice in the form of an extended sound parcours over the course of which musicians and sound artists present their works and take the time to talk about what’s just been heard.

Presentations at OK

4:30 PM	Welcome at OK Center
4:40 PM	::vtol:: oil by Dmitry Morozov (RU)
5 PM	Chijikinkutsu by Nelo Akamatsu (JP)
5:20 PM	UNDER WAY by Douglas Henderson (US)
5:40 PM	Electromechanical Modular by Gijs Gieskes (NL)
6 PM	Tipping Point by Kathy Hinde (GB)
6:20 PM	Rawr! A Study in Sonic Skulls by Courtney Brown (US) and Sharif Razzaque (US)
6:40 PM	Performance and Lecture Soft Revolvers by Myriam Bleau (CA)

Moderation and Parcours Guides: Werner Jauk (AT), Manuela Naveau (AT)

Music Monday program

10 AM-12 noon	Lectures and Performances at POST CITY, Train Hall
12:30 noon- 4 PM	Presentations Parcours at POST CITY
4:30 PM-7 PM	Presentations at OK
8 PM-9 PM	Presentation at Hauptplatz