The stereoscopic piece by the Istanbul-based multidisciplinary Studio NOHlab will take the audience on an audiovisual journey.

This project is presented in the framework of the Europen Digital Art and Science Network and co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.

Credits:
Art Direction and Visuals by NOHlab
Sound Design By Giray Gürkal

Alchemists deal with matter and meta-physics; they integrate human understanding of the world, visions, ideas, and their desire to reach ultimate enlightenment in their search for knowledge and creation. Fundamental knowledge must be communicated in a language that conveys all information and is accessible to all those, but also only those, who are adepts. Like the proto-human language, the origin of all linguistic understanding and development, proto-alchemists knew about the one language of those long gone worlds in order to bequeath their secrets. This lost proto-alchemist language was fundamental to cymatic (sound and resonance) transformation of matter. The alchemists of our time seek to find a proto-human language in the coding languages that they apply to transform matter, to program new material forms and to develop worlds that transcend the physical reality known to humans.

After Quadrature (2014) and The Sixth Wave (2015), the third part of the trilogy, Chants of the Proto-Alchemists (2016) reflects on the very sensual, instinctive, and in other words people’s very Dionysian side, which is as important to growth, spiritual development and divinity as the analytic, rationalistic, Apollonian side.

Text: Claudia Schnugg

Credits: Sound: Chris Bruckmayr (AT) & Dobrivoje Milijanovic (RS) aka raum.null; Vocals: Siegmar Aigner (AT) aka Mussurunga; Visuals: Didi Bruckmayr (AT) and Florian Berger (AT); Production: Claudia Schnugg (AT)

When wearing shoes and performing acts such as standing and walking, a pressure field that is invisible to the naked eye is generated on the contact surface, and this certainly continues to affect the surrounding areas. The shoe is not just a device to support walking; it is also a medium to propagate the wearer’s existence and identity in the form of mild pressure.

A small storm is raging in the micro space around the shoe sole. Wind pressure generated by walking blows the mite off the carpet. Converting to macro scale, it is similar to the phenomenon in which human beings are blown down by the air pressure generated during wartime air raids. Through simulation and visualization, we may obtain a wide range of perception connecting the micro to the macro world.

Visualization : Akira Wakita
Music : Tetsuya Komuro

Students’ designs have been shown by the internationally renowned photographer Günter Parth and Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner of Linz’s Kepler University Clinic. Parth has worked with fashion legends such as Vivienne Westwood and Paco Rabanne. Fellner heads one of ten radiology departments worldwide that are testing revolutionary new rendering software developed by Siemens Healthineers. In this case, though, the subject is not a naked human body but creations designed to dress it up in style.

Credits: Directors of Fashion & Technology: Ute Ploier, Christiane Luible; Visualizations: Prim. Univ. – Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner, Günter Parth; Music: Richard Eigner; Photos: Günter Parth, Nina Wenhart

Not recommended for epileptics.

A sensational, internationally unique experience awaits visitors to the Ars Electronica Center since August 2015. A 16 by 9 meters wall and 16 by 9 meters floor projection, laser tracking and 3-D animations were the specialities of the Deep Space since 2009. An all-out upgrade of the venue’s technical infrastructure of the Deep Space will enable audiences to enjoy projections at 8K resolution and thus worlds of imagery at a never-before-achieved level of quality! Full HD and 4K—that’s yesterday’s news. 8K is what’s happening now, and that standard is set by the latest update to Deep Space at the Ars Electronica Center. A visit to Deep Space 8K promises to be extraordinary, fascinating, impressive, breathtaking.

We present a method of rendering aerial and volumetric graphics using femtosecond lasers. A high-intensity laser excites physical matter to emit light at an arbitrary 3D position. Popular applications can then be explored especially since plasma induced by a femtosecond laser is safer than that generated by a nanosecond laser. There are two methods of rendering graphics with a femtosecond laser in air: producing holograms using spatial light modulation technology, and scanning a laser beam using a galvano mirror. The holograms and workspace of the system proposed here occupy a volume of up to one cubic centimeter; however, this size is scalable depending on the optical devices and their setup.