(Linz, May 7, 2020) “Ars Electronica Home Delivery” stands for an inspiring LIVE program that will enter its second week next Tuesday, May 12, delivering all sorts of fascinating things between art, technology and society directly to the living room, kitchen, children’s room, balcony or terrace. Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of Ars Electronica, and Jürgen Hagler, Co-Curator of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival, will provide initial insights into the computer animations submitted to the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. Neuroscientist Dr. Manuela Macedonia will explain why regular exercise has a positive effect on the brain. Music enthusiasts can look forward to another live concert with Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies, who will be performing Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird this time. Ars Electronica Home Delivery’s audience is again cordially invited to ask questions and join in the conversation via Skype or YouTube chat.

The highlights of the second week:

Deep Space Family LIVE
TUE May 12, 2020 / 12:30 noon
Wall and floor projections in 16 by 9 meter format, laser tracking and high-resolution images make Deep Space 8K a unique experience. Deep Space Family LIVE invites young and old on a colourful journey and shows what is possible in this projection room: from a visit to the space station ISS on its orbit around the Earth, to painting by means of your own movements in space, to discovering various children’s games on the gigapixel photo of a painting by Pieter Bruegel.

Ars Electronica Mix: Prix Ars Electronica 2020 – Preview Computer Animation
WED May 13, 2020 / 4:40 PM
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media art competition. Every year, thousands of projects are submitted by artists and scientists from dozens of different countries. The “Computer Animation” category has been part of the Prix Ars Electronica from the very beginning and annually honors outstanding achievements in independent works of art and science as well as in commercial high-end productions in the film, advertising and entertainment industries. At Ars Electronica Home Delivery, Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Artistic Director, and Jürgen Hagler, Ars Electronica Animation Festival Co-Curator, will report on the trends that are emerging in the computer animations submitted for the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. In addition, the competition’s jurors will be on hand to provide insights into this year’s jury process.

Lecture: Brain for All – Move it, and your brain says thank you!
THU May 14, 2020 / 7 PM
Why are sporty children often better at school? Why do sporty people often have the better memory? Thinking, feeling, remembering and learning are centrally controlled in the brain, yet many people pay much less attention to the brain than to their body. Neuroscientist Dr.in Manuela Macedonia tells us about the positive effects regular exercise has on the brain and explains how stress symptoms, overweight, depression and dementia can be prevented. After the lecture, questions from online viewers will be answered.

Concert LIVE: Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies
FRI May 15, 2020 / 7 PM
Piano music at its finest awaits classical music lovers on Friday when Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa once again take their seats on the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial CEUS computer piano in the Ars Electronica Center’s “Piano Room”. After Maurice Ravel and Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird, in the four-handed arrangement by Dennis Russell Davies, is on the agenda this time. The two will again be accompanied by Cori O’Lan’s visualizations that interact with the music. After the concert, the audience will have the opportunity to talk to the artists or ask questions in a moderated talk.

About Ars Electronica Home Delivery
“Ars Electronica Home Delivery” is a weekly program that includes guided tours of Ars Electronica exhibitions, excursions to Ars Electronica Labs, visits to the Machine Learning Studio, concerts with real-time visualizations, deep space LIVE sessions, workshops with engineers and talks with artists and scientists from around the world. None of this is recorded, most of it is interactive and all of it is LIVE. Ars Electronica Home Delivery aims to make the artistic and scientific debate about the future accessible to the broadest possible audience.

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Video Gerfried Stocker

(Linz, May 7, 2020) “Ars Electronica Home Delivery” stands for an inspiring LIVE program that will enter its second week next Tuesday, May 12, delivering all sorts of fascinating things between art, technology and society directly to the living room, kitchen, children’s room, balcony or terrace. Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of Ars Electronica, and Jürgen Hagler, Co-Curator of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival, will provide initial insights into the computer animations submitted to the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. Neuroscientist Dr. Manuela Macedonia will explain why regular exercise has a positive effect on the brain. Music enthusiasts can look forward to another live concert with Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies, who will be performing Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird this time. Ars Electronica Home Delivery’s audience is again cordially invited to ask questions and join in the conversation via Skype or YouTube chat.

The highlights of the second week:

Deep Space Family LIVE
TUE May 12, 2020 / 12:30 noon
Wall and floor projections in 16 by 9 meter format, laser tracking and high-resolution images make Deep Space 8K a unique experience. Deep Space Family LIVE invites young and old on a colourful journey and shows what is possible in this projection room: from a visit to the space station ISS on its orbit around the Earth, to painting by means of your own movements in space, to discovering various children’s games on the gigapixel photo of a painting by Pieter Bruegel.

Ars Electronica Mix: Prix Ars Electronica 2020 – Preview Computer Animation
WED May 13, 2020 / 4:40 PM
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media art competition. Every year, thousands of projects are submitted by artists and scientists from dozens of different countries. The “Computer Animation” category has been part of the Prix Ars Electronica from the very beginning and annually honors outstanding achievements in independent works of art and science as well as in commercial high-end productions in the film, advertising and entertainment industries. At Ars Electronica Home Delivery, Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Artistic Director, and Jürgen Hagler, Ars Electronica Animation Festival Co-Curator, will report on the trends that are emerging in the computer animations submitted for the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. In addition, the competition’s jurors will be on hand to provide insights into this year’s jury process.

Lecture: Brain for All – Move it, and your brain says thank you!
THU May 14, 2020 / 7 PM
Why are sporty children often better at school? Why do sporty people often have the better memory? Thinking, feeling, remembering and learning are centrally controlled in the brain, yet many people pay much less attention to the brain than to their body. Neuroscientist Dr.in Manuela Macedonia tells us about the positive effects regular exercise has on the brain and explains how stress symptoms, overweight, depression and dementia can be prevented. After the lecture, questions from online viewers will be answered.

Concert LIVE: Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies
FRI May 15, 2020 / 7 PM
Piano music at its finest awaits classical music lovers on Friday when Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa once again take their seats on the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial CEUS computer piano in the Ars Electronica Center’s “Piano Room”. After Maurice Ravel and Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird, in the four-handed arrangement by Dennis Russell Davies, is on the agenda this time. The two will again be accompanied by Cori O’Lan’s visualizations that interact with the music. After the concert, the audience will have the opportunity to talk to the artists or ask questions in a moderated talk.

About Ars Electronica Home Delivery
“Ars Electronica Home Delivery” is a weekly program that includes guided tours of Ars Electronica exhibitions, excursions to Ars Electronica Labs, visits to the Machine Learning Studio, concerts with real-time visualizations, deep space LIVE sessions, workshops with engineers and talks with artists and scientists from around the world. None of this is recorded, most of it is interactive and all of it is LIVE. Ars Electronica Home Delivery aims to make the artistic and scientific debate about the future accessible to the broadest possible audience.

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Manuela Macedonia / Fotocredit: Ars Electronica – Magdalena Sick-Leitner / Printversion

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The ISS in Deep Space 8K / Fotocredit: rubra / Printversion / Fotosammlung Ars Electronica Home Delivery auf Flickr

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Konzert LIVE mit Maki Namekawa und Dennis Russell Davies / Fotocredit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / Printversion / Fotosammlung Ars Electronica Home Delivery auf Flickr

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Video Gerfried Stocker

(Linz, May 8, 2020) Once a week, Ars Electronica Home Delivery streams music at its finest directly into the living room, kitchen, children’s room, balcony or terrace. Following the impressive opening concert with Maurice Ravel’s “Ma Mère l’Oye” on May 1, Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa will be making their second guest appearance this evening in the Ars Electronica Center’s Piano Room. Starting at 7:00 p.m., there will be music by Philip Glass with selected etudes and “Stokes” for piano, for four hands. The real-time visualizations will once again be contributed by Cori O’Lan. After the concert there will be a moderated talk where the audience can ask questions or chat with the artists from the comfort of their own homes. Further Ars Electronica Home Delivery concerts with Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies are on tap every Friday at 7 p.m. in May and June.

Etudes by Philip Glass
Philip Glass composed the majority of his etudes in 1994, mainly in response to his need for repertoire for his solo piano concertos. For about two decades, Glass was almost the only person to perform these etudes. Dennis Russell Davies, for whom some of the earliest Etudes were written, was initially one of the few pianists to receive the scores and also permission to perform and record the work. In November 2014, Orange Mountain Music released the first recording of the complete piano etudes with pianist Maki Namekawa, coinciding with the physical release of the scores, just two weeks before the New York premiere of the etudes at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From then on, pianists around the world began performing and recording the works.
Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies will again be accompanied by Cori O’Lan, who will use the sounds of the piano directly to create and design the digital visualizations with the help of a special computer system. In this way, visual worlds will be created that develop directly from the music or react directly to it.

Further concerts by Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies in preparation
More concerts are already planned and in the pipeline as part of Ars Electronica Home Delivery: Igor Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” arranged for piano four hands by Dennis Russell Davies is on the program for May 15, while “Piano Phase” by Steve Reich and “Two Chorale Preludes” by J.S. Bach/György Kurtag await online audiences on May 22. Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Three Marches”, op. 45 for piano four hands, and Arvo Pärt’s “Pari Intervallo” and “Hymn to a Great City”will be played on May 29th. Further concert dates: June 5th, June 12th, June 19th and June 26th, 2020, 19:00 each.

About Ars Electronica Home Delivery
“Ars Electronica Home Delivery” is a weekly program that includes guided tours of Ars Electronica exhibitions, excursions to Ars Electronica Labs, visits to the Machine Learning Studio, concerts with real-time visualizations, deep space LIVE sessions, workshops with engineers and talks with artists and scientists from around the world. None of this is recorded, most of it is interactive and all of it is LIVE. Ars Electronica Home Delivery aims to make the artistic and scientific debate about the future accessible to the broadest possible audience.

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Maki Namekawa & Dennis Russell Davies / Fotocredit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / Printversion

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Talk mit den MuikerInnen / Fotocredit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / Printversion / Fotosammlung Ars Electronica Home Delivery auf Flickr

(Linz, May 7, 2020) “Ars Electronica Home Delivery” stands for an inspiring LIVE program that will enter its second week next Tuesday, May 12, delivering all sorts of fascinating things between art, technology and society directly to the living room, kitchen, children’s room, balcony or terrace. Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of Ars Electronica, and Jürgen Hagler, Co-Curator of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival, will provide initial insights into the computer animations submitted to the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. Neuroscientist Dr. Manuela Macedonia will explain why regular exercise has a positive effect on the brain. Music enthusiasts can look forward to another live concert with Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies, who will be performing Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird this time. Ars Electronica Home Delivery’s audience is again cordially invited to ask questions and join in the conversation via Skype or YouTube chat.

The highlights of the second week:

Deep Space Family LIVE
TUE May 12, 2020 / 12:30 noon
Wall and floor projections in 16 by 9 meter format, laser tracking and high-resolution images make Deep Space 8K a unique experience. Deep Space Family LIVE invites young and old on a colourful journey and shows what is possible in this projection room: from a visit to the space station ISS on its orbit around the Earth, to painting by means of your own movements in space, to discovering various children’s games on the gigapixel photo of a painting by Pieter Bruegel.

Ars Electronica Mix: Prix Ars Electronica 2020 – Preview Computer Animation
WED May 13, 2020 / 4:40 PM
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media art competition. Every year, thousands of projects are submitted by artists and scientists from dozens of different countries. The “Computer Animation” category has been part of the Prix Ars Electronica from the very beginning and annually honors outstanding achievements in independent works of art and science as well as in commercial high-end productions in the film, advertising and entertainment industries. At Ars Electronica Home Delivery, Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Artistic Director, and Jürgen Hagler, Ars Electronica Animation Festival Co-Curator, will report on the trends that are emerging in the computer animations submitted for the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. In addition, the competition’s jurors will be on hand to provide insights into this year’s jury process.

Lecture: Brain for All – Move it, and your brain says thank you!
THU May 14, 2020 / 7 PM
Why are sporty children often better at school? Why do sporty people often have the better memory? Thinking, feeling, remembering and learning are centrally controlled in the brain, yet many people pay much less attention to the brain than to their body. Neuroscientist Dr.in Manuela Macedonia tells us about the positive effects regular exercise has on the brain and explains how stress symptoms, overweight, depression and dementia can be prevented. After the lecture, questions from online viewers will be answered.

Concert LIVE: Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies
FRI May 15, 2020 / 7 PM
Piano music at its finest awaits classical music lovers on Friday when Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa once again take their seats on the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial CEUS computer piano in the Ars Electronica Center’s “Piano Room”. After Maurice Ravel and Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird, in the four-handed arrangement by Dennis Russell Davies, is on the agenda this time. The two will again be accompanied by Cori O’Lan’s visualizations that interact with the music. After the concert, the audience will have the opportunity to talk to the artists or ask questions in a moderated talk.

About Ars Electronica Home Delivery
“Ars Electronica Home Delivery” is a weekly program that includes guided tours of Ars Electronica exhibitions, excursions to Ars Electronica Labs, visits to the Machine Learning Studio, concerts with real-time visualizations, deep space LIVE sessions, workshops with engineers and talks with artists and scientists from around the world. None of this is recorded, most of it is interactive and all of it is LIVE. Ars Electronica Home Delivery aims to make the artistic and scientific debate about the future accessible to the broadest possible audience.

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Manuela Macedonia / Fotocredit: Ars Electronica – Magdalena Sick-Leitner / Printversion

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The ISS in Deep Space 8K / Fotocredit: rubra / Printversion / Fotosammlung Ars Electronica Home Delivery auf Flickr

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Konzert LIVE mit Maki Namekawa und Dennis Russell Davies / Fotocredit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / Printversion / Fotosammlung Ars Electronica Home Delivery auf Flickr

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Video Gerfried Stocker

(Linz, May 3, 2020) “Ars Electronica Home Delivery” now brings a wealth of inspiration and fascination situated between art, technology and society directly into the living room, kitchen, children’s room, balcony or terrace. Although officially still part of the test phase, Week 1 of “Ars Electronica Home Delivery” is about to be a very special one: Astrophotographer Dietmar Hager invites you on a journey across the universe, Michaela Obermayer gets to the bottom of the mysteries of the Mona Lisa using a gigapixel image created by award-winning photographer Lois Lammerhuber, and Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa play etudes by Philip Glass in the Ars Electronica Center’s “Piano Room. The audience always has the opportunity to join in the conversation and ask questions.

The highlights of the first week:

Highlight tour LIVE: Part 1
TUE May 5, 2020 / 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
“Compass – Navigating the Future” is the motto of the 2019 redesigned Ars Electronica Center that focuses on artificial intelligence, neuro-bionics, robotics and autonomous systems, genetic engineering and biotechnology. The focus is always on the question of how the rapid developments in all these areas will affect our lives. As part of “Ars Electronica Home Delivery,” the Ars Electronica Center’s infotrainers invite you to take an interactive highlight tour through the Museum of the Future’s exhibitions and labs.

Deep Space Highlights LIVE: Mona Lisa
THU May 7, 2020 / 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
It measures 77 cm by 53 cm and is one of the most famous oil paintings in the world. The painting in question is Leonardo Da Vinci’s portrait of the Mona Lisa. The renowned photographer Lois Lammerhuber has created a gigapixel image of the Mona Lisa that reveals even the smallest details and finest brushstrokes in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K. With the help of “Ars Electronica Home Delivery,” the fascinating insights into this painting can now be enjoyed from the comfort of your own home. The Ars Electronica Center’s infotrainers guarantee expert guidance.

Deep Space LIVE: Uniview – The Journey through Space with Dietmar Hager
THU May 7, 2020 / 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
With its 16×9 meter wall and floor projections the Deep Space 8K stands for unique experiences. As part of the Ars Electronica Home Delivery program, astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will use the Uniview visualization software to invite you on a visually stunning virtual journey through the known universe-from Earth to galaxies millions of light-years away. In the course of the interstellar exploration Dietmar Hager will also shed light on many of the secrets of astronomy.

Concert LIVE: Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies
FRI May 8, 2020 / 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
After the impressive opening concert on May 1, Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa take their seats once again at the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial CEUS computer piano in the Ars Electronica Center’s “Piano Room”. This time they will play the “Etudes” by Philip Glass and will again be accompanied by Cori O’Lan’s visualizations, which interact in real time with the volume and timbre of the music. After the concert, a moderated talk is on tap that gives the audience the opportunity to talk to Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa.

About Ars Electronica Home Delivery
“Ars Electronica Home Delivery” is a weekly program that includes guided tours of Ars Electronica exhibitions, excursions to Ars Electronica Labs, visits to the Machine Learning Studio, concerts with real-time visualizations, Deep Space LIVE sessions, workshops with engineers and talks with artists and scientists from around the world. None of this is recorded, most of it is interactive and all of it is LIVE. Ars Electronica Home Delivery aims to make the artistic and scientific debate about the future accessible to the broadest possible audience.

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Deep Space LIVE with Dietmar Hager / Photocredit: rubra / Printversion / Album

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Deep Space Highlights LIVE: Mona Lisa / Photocredit: Ars Electronica – Martin Hieslmair / Printversion / Fotoalbum

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Conzert LIVE with Maki Namekawa und Dennis Russell Davies / Photocredit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / Printversion / Fotoalbum

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Video Gerfried Stocker

(Linz, April 28, 2020) Anyone looking for a taste of the future and who’d like to visit the Ars Electronica Center today rather than tomorrow can breathe a sigh of relief. From now on, Ars Electronica is offering a delivery service! “Ars Electronica Home Delivery” will be sending a range of elaborately composed future visions directly to your living room, kitchen, kids’ room, balcony, or terrace. We’re offering a weekly program that includes guided tours of Ars Electronica exhibitions, excursions to the Ars Electronica Labs, visits to the Machine Learning Studio, concerts with real-time visualizations, Deep Space LIVE sessions, workshops with engineers, and talks with artists and scientists from all over the world. None of this will be pre-recorded, most of it will be interactive, and all of it will be LIVE. An initial two-week test phase is starting on Friday, May 1, 2020, with a concert from the Ars Electronica Center’s “Piano Room”: Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies will play Ma Mère L’Oye for piano four hands by Maurice Ravel, with Cori O’Lan contributing real-time visualizations. You can experience this and all the other Ars Electronica Home Delivery events live at ars.electronica.art/homedelivery and also watch them again afterwards here.

Ars Electronica Home Delivery is here to stay…
Ars Electronica Home Delivery is not intended to substitute for a visit to the museum, which will remain closed for the time being, but rather as a newly developed approach that aims to permanently open up our Linz-based artistic and scholarly engagement with the future to a larger audience—even when the Ars Electronica Center is open for business as usual again. “Our educational mission is to enter into a dialogue on current developments in art, technology, and society,” says Gerfried Stocker. “With Ars Electronica Home Delivery, we’re doing that online. In doing so, we’re creating an additional and lasting range of offerings that will enhance our portfolio in the long term, for example, for schools and businesses. So, in the future, guided tours, presentations, and workshops will not just be held at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, but also on the web or as hybrid formats, thus making them interesting for an audience beyond Austria’s borders.

… and it will unleash its tried and tested strengths on new terrain
Ars Electronica Home Delivery draws on the competence and expertise developed over the years by the museum team and at the same time enters completely new territory. “When it comes to content and communication, not much will change for the time being,” says Gerfried Stocker. “Our info-trainers are incredibly good at packaging complex topics in exciting stories, preparing them for different target groups and initiating dialogue and discussions.” However, all this has only taken place in real space so far, and the team has little experience with doing this on the web. “The really challenging thing about Ars Electronica Home Delivery is that we don’t want to make museum television, but rather create an experience. As with all of Ars Electronica’s other activities, our mission here is not to treat people as mere recipients but to turn them into participants. We don’t want to dumb down, edify or entertain anyone, but to involve, inspire, and motivate everyone. Only if we succeed in this will we have succeeded.” For this reason, virtually every Ars Electronica Home Delivery event will enable the public to participate, influence, and work together. As is typical for Ars Electronica, the focus is thus not on mere presentation but on interaction.

LIVE and interactive from the Ars Electronica Center Linz
The program structure of Ars Electronica Home Delivery is deliberately based on what has made the Ars Electronica Center the most-visited museum in Upper Austria for years. There are guided tours, presentations, workshops, and concerts, all of which use the Ars Electronica Center’s infrastructure. “We’re going to put a lot of effort into providing our audience with a maximum of interactivity and attractiveness,” announces Gerfried Stocker. “Our CitizenLab will become an open forum in which we’ll be inviting guests from the arts and sciences to join us for talks. The Deep Space will become a showcase from which we will broadcast extraordinary presentations. Our Piano Room will become a stage for concerts that include visualizations. And we have a mobile unit that allows us to move through all the exhibitions and labs in the entire building and give guided tours.”

A multifaceted program for different target groups

Ars Electronica Home Delivery … in concert
Concerts with (real-time) visualizations by renowned artists will be offered regularly. The venue and stage for these performances will be the Ars Electronica Center’s new Piano Room, with the computerized Bösendorfer 290 Imperial CEUS grand piano. This room is also equipped with projection screens and sensors that make it possible to show visualizations that interact in real time with the volume and timbre of the music. Before and after the concerts, there will always be moderated talks with the artists with audience participation. The program will start with the concert by Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies on May 1—they will play Ma Mère L’Oye for piano four hands by Maurice Ravel. Already in preparation are performances of piano works by Igor Stravinsky, Ludwig von Beethoven, Wolfgang A. Mozart, Kurt Schwertsik (who celebrates his 80th birthday on June 25), Arvo Pärt, Joep Beving, and, of course, Philip Glass.

Ars Electronica Home Delivery … in the Deep Space 8K
You don’t have to say much about the special features of the Deep Space 8K. As part of Ars Electronica Home Delivery, the projection room will also unleash its full potential and provide a unique setting for special interactive presentations on topics such as astronomy, anatomy, media art, and art history. The “Deep Space LIVE” format (every Thursday at 7:00 p.m.), which has been very popular for years, will be included in the Ars Electronica Home Delivery program along with numerous new—sometimes moderated—formats. Renowned experts will be contributing to the events: Astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will be inviting guests to join him on his popular virtual excursions right across the universe as we know it; neuroscientist Manuela Macedonia will be talking about the latest findings on the human brain; “Anatomy for All” will be presented by Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner, Prim. Dr. Bernd Lamprecht, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas F. Zierer, Prim. Dr. Andreas Shamiyeh, Prim. Dr. Clemens Steinwender and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Gruber.

Ars Electronica Home Delivery … in the labs
Since last June, the Ars Electronica Center has had an entire “laboratory floor” where the MaterialLab and BioLab are lined up next to the FabLab and CitizenLab. All of these labs create an infrastructure that gives visitors the chance to actively engage with future issues. And it is this very opportunity that is also being offered by Ars Electronica Home Delivery. Guided by the Ars Electronica Center’s info-trainers, there will be interactive workshops for various age and target groups. The CitizenLab will also be the venue for regular—and interactive—talks with guests from the arts and sciences.

Ars Electronica Home Delivery … let’s take a tour!
Guided tours are an established and popular part of a visit to the Museum of the Future. It goes without saying that we will also be offering them daily as part of Ars Electronica Home Delivery. As usual, the Ars Electronica Center’s info-trainers will act as “guides to the future.”

Ars Electronica Home Delivery … talking to artists & scientists
Over the past decades, Ars Electronica has built up a worldwide network that includes thousands of artists, scientists, developers, and activists. In the near future, a whole lot of them will be guests at the Ars Electronica Center’s CitizenLab—both real and virtual—and each will devote themselves to different aspects of the coronavirus—and especially the post-coronavirus—era. The audience is encouraged to participate in the conversation.

Ars Electronica Home Delivery … welcome to the Animation Festival!
Animation is one of the most popular forms of media art. It’s no coincidence, then, that animation has had its own Prix Ars Electronica competition category since 1987 (which, incidentally, is now entering its 23rd edition). Since then, an international jury of experts has sifted through thousands of animations every year and awarded prizes to the best of them. The latter are then presented to the public in the form of a specially curated Ars Electronica Animation Festival. Animations will be shown as part of the Ars Electronica Home Delivery program, and before or afterwards there will always be talks with the artists, in which the public can of course participate.

… which will begin its test phase on May 1
Ars Electronica Home Delivery will be launching on May Day with Maki Namekawa, Dennis Russel Davies, and Cori O’Lan. It will continue on Monday, May 4, 2020, with week 1 of the test phase (see weekly program).

Special: The first “Bike-In Art Cinema” in Linz
Starting in mid-May, the Ars Electronica Center will be presenting an early summer special: the very first “Bike-In Art Cinema” in Linz. This will be made possible by the Linz-based company Ton & Bild Medientechnik GmbH, which is fitting the Ars Electronica Center’s Main Deck with a large LED wall. “Every Friday and Saturday, we’ll be offering events and trying out different things,” announces Gerfried Stocker. “In the afternoon, the program will be geared more toward families and will include documentaries, for instance, by Erich Pröll, as well as animations from our Deep Space family program and astronomy applications like ‘Uniview.’ In the evening, we will show visual productions, mainly by local artists.” The first phase, however, should primarily serve to get to know the audience. “Depending on the feedback we get, we will expand our offering or establish certain thematic priorities.” The “Bike-In Art Cinema”, however, will not compete with the established Linz art-house cinema scene: “We are setting up this initiative as an art project and not as an open-air cinema. Above all, we want to offer local artists and the people of Linz a stage and something a bit away from their everyday experiences.” From mid-May onward, the public arriving on foot or by bike will be able to spend inspiring evenings on the Ars Electronica Center’s Main Deck while maintaining the necessary distance from one another—appropriate distance markings will be put up in the coming days.

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Ars Electronica Home Delivery / photocredit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / print version / photo album

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Ars Electronica Home Delivery / photocredit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / print version / photo album

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Ars Electronica Home Delivery / photocredit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / print version / photo album

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Maki Namekawa & Dennis Russell Davies / photo credit: tom mesic / print version

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Press Conference Ars Electronica Home Delivery / photo credit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / print version / photo album

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Press Conference Ars Electronica Home Delivery / photo credit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / print version / photo album

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Ars Electronica Center / photo credit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / print version / photo album

Gerfried Stocker (Artistic Director Ars Electronica) about Ars Electronica Home Delivery

(Linz/Edinburgh, April 14, 2020) The “European ARTificial Intelligence Lab” – AI Lab for short – aims to enable artists to take residencies at scientific institutions and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The AI Lab was initiated in 2018 by Ars Electronica. 12 renowned cultural institutions from all over Europe belong to the network, which is financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Every year, a residency is offered to artists who work in the field of artificial intelligence or are dealing with its impact on our society.
This year the residency has been designed and developed by Ars Electronica and the Experiential AI research group at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) – part of the University of Edinburgh – in partnership with the Edinburgh International Festival. It was developed in order to support artists to explore AI systems. The residency theme is Entanglements – fair, moral and transparent AI.

In 2020, the residency will go to Anna Ridler (UK) and Caroline Sinders (US) for their project “AI isn’t Artificial but Human”. Due to the corona crisis both artists will complete their residencies at the EFI in Edinburgh in autumn. The artists’ one-month production residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz is then scheduled to take place next winter or spring 2021.

AI isn’t Artificial but Human
“AI isn’t Artificial but Human” is the title of the winning project by Anna Ridler and Caroline Sinders, which was selected by an expert jury from 161 entries from 42 countries. “Through artistic experiments, Anna Ridler and Caroline Sinders hope to make transparent the human influence on AI, so people can understand where they have agency, ” says Drew Hemment, jury member and founder of the Experiential AI group (Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh). Martin Honzik, director of the Ars Electronica Festival and jury member explained the reason for the decision: “With the artists and researchers Caroline Sinders and Anna Ridler, who were finally selected for the AI Lab, 2 personalities were chosen whose approach and project proposition could be assessed as having the highest potential for the orientation of the project programme.” The selection jury consisted of representatives from Ars Electronica, the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Edinburgh International Festival. You can read both jury statements in full here: https://ars.electronica.art/ailab/en/juries/

Anna Ridler
Anna Ridler is an artist and researcher. She has exhibited at institutions such as the V&A Museum, Ars Electronica, HeK Basel, Impakt and the Barbican Centre and has degrees from the Royal College of Art, Oxford University and University of Arts London. She was a 2018 EMAP fellow and was listed by Artnet as one of nine “pioneering artists” exploring AI’s creative potential. She is interested in working with collections of information, particularly self-generated data sets, to create new and unusual narratives in a variety of mediums, and what happens when things cannot fit into discrete categories. She is currently interested in the intersection of machine learning and nature and what we can learn from history.

Caroline Sinders
Caroline Sinders is a machine learning researcher and artist obsessed with language, culture and images. Her work explores the intersections between natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Her work has been featured in the Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA Ps1, the Modern Art Museum of Bologna, Ars Electronica, as well as others. She is the founder of Convocation Design + Research an agency focusing on the use of machine learning and design for public good.

European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
The network, initiated by Ars Electronica in 2018, comprises 14 renowned institutions from the fields of art and science throughout Europe. The AI Lab is aimed at artists who work with AI applications and/or reflect on their use and effects on our society. The initiative is financed by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

Experiential AI
Experiential AI is a new research theme and cluster at Edinburgh Futures Institute. It aims to support the creation of artistic works using machine learning algorithms and robotics, and to inspire new concepts and paradigms on ethical and responsible AI. Experiential AI develops research on AI futures, science, art and ethics through collaborations with artists, festivals and the AI community.

Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh International Festival is the world’s leading performing arts festival, featuring the finest performers from the worlds of dance, opera, music and theatre for three weeks each August in Scotland’s capital. Created in 1947 to celebrate the human spirit and bring people together through art, the International Festival remains a global celebration and a point of annual cultural exchange, for an international audience exceeding 400,000 per year.
Committed to being inclusive and accessible, the International Festival offers free events, discounted pricing, accessible performances and year-round community learning and engagement programmes.

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(Linz, 10.3.2020) Discover steep, hundreds of meter high cliffs on comets, marvel at opulent refractions of light from the ice crystals of Saturn’s rings and get to know the gigantic mountain worlds of Mars: At Deep Space LIVE Thursday evening, March 12, Gernot Grömer, Director of the Austrian Space Forum, combines the current state of planetary research with a pinch of science fiction and invites you on a fascinating photographic tour through the solar system. Start is at 7:00 pm.

Gernot Grömer
Gernot Grömer, born in 1975, completed his diploma studies in astronomy and doctoral studies in astrobiology at the University of Innsbruck. He is co-founder and administrative director of the Austrian Space Forum and simulates Mars expeditions with his team. Furthermore, the members of the ÖWF team under his guidance were the first in Europe to develop a space suit for Mars. He teaches and conducts research at the University of Innsbruck and the International Space University and has hosted the programme P.M. Wissen on ServusTV since July 2018.

The Austrian Space Forum
The ÖWF is a national network for space specialists and space enthusiasts. The organisation carries out research in the field of space activities, carries out mediation work through lectures, exhibitions, shows and consulting activities and is also embedded in a global network of space specialists from industry, research and politics.

Deep Space LIVE
Every Thursday, 7 p.m. (except public holidays), the Ars Electronica Center invites you to a Deep Space LIVE. High-resolution images in 16 by 9 meter format will be combined with expert commentary, entertaining double conferences and musical improvisation. Whether it’s art-historical tracing, space flight, a voyage of discovery into the nanoworld or a LIVE concert – Deep Space LIVE stands for enlightening entertainment amidst impressive visual worlds. Admission costs €3. With a valid museum ticket, the visit is free of charge.

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Best of Deep Space 8K

Press Release as PDF
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(Linz, 3.3.2020) Explore moon craters and Saturn’s rings and travel through the Milky Way at the speed of light: The “Uniview” visualization software in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K brings planets, stars and galaxies within reach. At Deep Space LIVE, Thursday evening, March 5, 2020, Uniview and Linz-based astrophotographer Dietmar Hager will take you on a breathtaking 3D journey through the universe. Start is at 7:00 pm.

Astrophotographer Dietmar Hager
Dietmar Hager is a doctor and astrophotographer. He has been involved in astrophotography for over 20 years and publishes photos in international journals and textbooks. He’s been working for the Ars Electronica Center as an astronomical consultant since early 2011.

Deep Space LIVE
Every Thursday, 7 p.m. (except public holidays), the Ars Electronica Center invites you to a Deep Space LIVE. High-resolution images in 16 by 9 meter format will be combined with expert commentary, entertaining double conferences and musical improvisation. Whether it’s art-historical tracing, space flight, a voyage of discovery into the nanoworld or a LIVE concert – Deep Space LIVE stands for enlightening entertainment amidst impressive visual worlds. Admission costs €3. With a valid museum ticket, the visit is free of charge.

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Uniview / Fotocredit: Ars Electronica – Robert Bauernhansl / Printversion

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(Linz, 24.2.2020) Global temperature rise, glacier melt, rising sea levels, shrinking ice surfaces and extreme weather conditions: the effects of climate change are worrying, and rapid action is essential. During the theme weekend “Climate Change and the Digital Geography of the 21st Century”, deep-space presentations and special guided tours offer a good opportunity to obtain comprehensive information on the subject of climate change. Visitors to the “Global Shift” exhibition can interactively explore the phenomenon of glacier shrinkage, examine the global transport routes of merchant ships and their CO2 emissions or see the concrete effects of global warming in satellite images.

The programme at a glance:

Guided tour: PLANet B / THU 27.2., SAT 29.2. and SUN 1.3.2020 / 2 pm-3:30 pm
The focus of the PLANet B guided tour is the Anthropocene, the age in which man has the greatest influence on the entire ecosystem. Although satellite technologies, data analysis and visualization strategies make it possible today to display the observable and measurable changes on earth, how can the effects of climate change be counteracted? Questions are allowed, discussions very welcome and action explicitly desired!

Deep Space LIVE: Europe’s threatened forests / DO 27.2.2020 / 7 pm – 8 pm
When talking about “forest destruction”, the first thought is usually about tropical rainforests. But hardly anyone knows that European forests are also highly endangered, as climate change and a too low stock of natural forests and overexploitation lead to a drastic decline. The visually stunning lecture by nature photographer Berndt Fischer shows the beauty of primeval forests and contrasts it with common forestry practice and exploitation of forests in times of resource hunger and the ideology of the “renewable resource wood”.

Demonstration: Fridays for Future / FR 28.2.2020 / 1 pm
Fridays for Future, the worldwide movement of mostly young people who are working together to protect the climate, will be holding a Friday demonstration in front of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz to call for compliance with climate targets and thus a future worth living for future generations.

Guided tour: Melting away / SAT 29.2.2020, 1:30 pm – 2 pm / SUN 1.3.2020, 11 am – 11:30 am
How do glaciers form, why are they melting faster and faster and what meaningful values can already be measured today? During this guided tour, participants will learn more about global developments and regional impacts around glacier retreat and ice melting at the poles.

Guided tour: Drop in the Ocean / SAT 29.2.2020, 11 am-11:30 am / SUN 1.3.2020, 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
This guided tour explores the impact of our modern lifestyle on the oceans, the largest ecosystem on the planet.

Deep Space Special: Climate Change / THU 27.2.2020, 4 pm-5 pm / FRI 28.2.2020, 4:30 pm-5 pm / SAT 29.2. and SUN 1.3.2020, 11:30 am -12:00 noon and 4 pm -5 pm
Every day you hear or read about “climate change”. But what exactly does the word “climate” actually mean and how does it differ from “weather”? In this Deep Space Special, visitors learn interesting facts about the natural and human influences on the climate. In addition, various movements, such as “Fridays for Future”, are also discussed.

Guided tour: Power to the People / FRI 28.2.2020, 2 pm-3 pm / SAT 29.2.2020, 3 pm – 4 pm
In a democracy, power emanates from the people, but due to new technologies, this is often no longer the case. This tour is dedicated to technological, civil and political developments that show where the claim of an empowered society is in danger and what approaches exist to counteract this.

Think tank: Make the world beautiful again / FRI 28.2.2020, 3:15 pm-4:15 pm / SAT 29.2.2020, 4:15 pm-5:15 pm
The participants of the think tank form alliances against the exploitation of our planet and found start-ups to save the world: In a fictional scenario they become scientific and creative thinkers and leaders of the future and present possible inventions to save the world. In the conference that follows, the projects are discussed together.

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