event – Radical Atoms

Nightline

Vanessa Graf — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:54:00 +0000

Linz bietet zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, die Stadt nachtwandelnd zu erkunden – und Ars Electronica fügt ihnen für die Festivaldauer mit ihrer Nightline weitere hinzu.

OK Night

For the meanwhile legendary OK Night during Ars Electronica, this year the OK Deck will be transformed into a “modular club”.

Ars Electronica Opening

The Ars Electronica Opening is full of performances and concerts – the opening event to the Ars Electronica Festival 2016.

The musical highlight of every Ars Electronica Festival is the Big Concert Night. It is an encounter of classical music, electronic sound artistry and computer-generated visualizations. The impressive venue of this year’s extraordinary concert is POSTCITY’s huge Train Hall.

POSTCITY Nightline

Among music-loving night owls, Nightline is an annual highlight of the Ars Electronica Festival program.

Ars Electronica Opening

Vanessa Graf — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:01:49 +0000

“Numbered, Weighed and Found Wanting”—Ars Electronica opens with a performance by sound artist FM Einheit (DE) that reinterprets the ancient biblical warning: Mene, Mene, Tekel, upharsin.
Artists collective Silk Fluegge (AT) will be the first act on the Main Stage with MYGRATION—beget, a dance performance about origins, identity and belonging. In Roboaction(s) A1 K1, Dragan Ilić (RS/US) has himself strapped to a robotic arm and then creates graphic compositions via the robot’s movements. Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking by Navid Navab (CA) is a synaesthetic audiovisual performance about a cook in a specially prepared kitchen setup. Playing the Kankisenthizer, an instrument that uses fans to generate both sounds and light, Ei Wada (JP) demonstrates the possibilities of unconventional musical production. The festivities will also include an unconventional performance/intervention by XBlade Allstarts get Radical, one of the world’s most successful drone racer teams. These tiny airborne hotrods achieve speeds in excess of 100 km/h. Exploded View (DE/MX) complements the musical portion of the evening with a sound somewhere between Krautrock, Dub and political discourse. Then, Planningtorock (UK) uses Pop and dance music as interference receiver. In the wee hours, Dasha Rush (RU) and Russian video artist Stanislav Glazow aka Licht Pfad (RU) collaborate in a performance entitled ANTARCTIC TAKT.

21:00 – 21:30 FM Einheit (DE), Mene, Mene, Tekel, upharsin
POSTCITY, Spiral Falls

21:40 – 22:00 SILK Fluegge (AT), MYGRATION—beget
POSTCITY, Ground Floor

22:00 – 22:10 Dragan Ilić (RS/US), Roboaction(s) A1 K1
POSTCITY, Ground Floor

22:10 – 23:00 Navid Navab (CA), Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking
POSTCITY, Ground Floor

23:05 – 23:20 Ei Wada (JP), The Kankisenthizer – Exhaust Fancillator
POSTCITY, Ground Floor

23:25 – 23:35 XBlade Allstarts get Radical
POSTCITY, Ground Floor

23:40 – 00:10 Exploded View (DE/MX)
POSTCITY, Ground Floor

00:15 – 01:00 Planningtorock (UK)
POSTCITY, Ground Floor

01:05 – 02:00 Dasha Rush (RU), ANTARCTIC TAKT
POSTCITY, Ground Floor
02:00 – 03:00 Olof Dreijer (SE), DJ Set

Knight Light

Vanessa Graf — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:02:33 +0000

Knight Light is ZoopTEK’s vision for the next generation of e-sports, as an immersive live gaming event. In an abstract futuristic arena heavily inspired by Roman gladiator contests, it combines the skill of sword-wielding avatars and the chaos of animal-themed minions with the influence of the crowd. Players choose to play the game in the way that suits them best. Avatars are played by those who crave the thick of battle, using traditional first-person shooter controls. Summoners are played by more strategic players, unleashing the right minion at the right time by using their mobile device. Last but not least, spectators may sway the tide of battle by providing various bonuses to their favored team by playing quick mobile games. The experience is all tied together by live music synchronized to the events unfolding on the big screen, with an announcer calling the shots.

ZoopTEK LLC, Chicago: Alan C. Reck (president, lecturer MA course in Music for Applied Media, Danube University Krems); Rishu Mandolia (CEO); Miguel Kertsman (composer, director MA courses, Center for Contemporary Music, Danube University Krems); Jonathan Mazur (artist); Andy Urquiaga (designer)