Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition 3. - 22. 9. Landesgalerie des OOE Landesmuseums Francisco Carolinum Tues. - Thurs. 9.00 - 20.00, Fri. 9.00 - 18.00 Opening 2. 9. 17.30		The exhibition presents a selection of the best works from the catgegory Interactive Art and gives the visitor insights into current trends in this field of computer art. The following artists are exhibiting: Luc Courchesne/Can ...Masaki Fujihata/J ... Gerhard Funk/A ... Graham Harwood/GB ... Natalie Jeremijenka/USA ... Suzuki Nobuya/J ... Nancy Paterson/Can ... Simon Penny/USA ... Erwin Redl/USA, A ... Thecla Schiphorst/Can ... Scott Sona Snibbe/USA
Deep Blue 2. - 21. 9. Offenes Kulturhaus 16.00 - 20, 22.00 - 1.00 Sam Auinger, Robert Adrian/A		Deep Blue relates to the network project Kunst&Politik. The room is dark, sometimes with faint blue light near the floor. There is sound in the room. The sound and the blue light change and fluctuate in accordance with the movement and behaviour of the visitors. A background rhythm is provided by the sound of the trams crossing the Nibelungen Bridge, picked up by sensors located near the Ars Electronica Center. Deep Blue is a project in co-operation with the Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz.
Cross-Active System 3. - 6. 9. Design Center Linz 10.00 - 20.00 Hiroo Iwata/J		Cross-active System is a modified virtual reality system, in which the motion input from one participant provides sensory feedback to the other participant. In an ordinary interactive system, a user obtains sensory feedback in response to his/her own motion input. In Cross-active System, two participants experience unusual communication by dividing the sensory feedback from their motion input. The installation consists of a motion platform with a large screen in front of it, and a mikro-video camera with a position sensor. One participant sits on the platform, the other holds the camera. The image from the camera is displayed on the screen, while the motion from the camera is tracked by the position sensor. Since the data from the position sensor controls the motion platform, a slight motion of the camera results in a large motion on the part of the motion platform.
Inter Dis-Communication Machine 3.- 6.9. Design Center Linz 10.00 - 20.00 Kazuhiko Hachiya/J		Through the device of the Inter Dis-communication Machine two participants exchange their visual perspectives, which forces them to see things the other person's way. The machine is designed to be used by two people. The situation Hachiya has tried to create is that of a *double identity self* and *mutual identity*. It may be compared to the phenomenon of seeing one's own doppelganger. I'm not you, and you are not me. Yet we are often confused and think that the other person thinks in a similar way. This real world actually only exists in the brain of any one person. *Here I am.* In this case, *here* is the place where *my* eyes exist, it is the center of the world. Well then, what happens if I give my eyes to you? And if I receive your eyes? Then we will fuse to become one person.
Rays - An Additional Catastrophe 3. - 21. 9. Stiftergalerie des OOE Landesmuseums Francisco Carolinum Tues., Thurs. 14.00 - 18.00, Wed., Fri. 10.00 - 17.00		RAYS (work in progress) is part of a large-scale project dealing with *rays* such as light, radioactivity, shortwaves, microwaves etc.
Variable Objekte 2. - 6. 9. Archimedia 11.00 - 21.00 Helmuth Gsöllpointner/A, Christian Möller/D Realisation by Sabine Reschitzegger and Daniel Schmidt		Digital flights through virtual architectures. Three variable objects made of steel by Helmuth Gsöllpointner are presented to the viewer in visualised form. Due to technical and financial considerations, the feasability of actually producing Gsöllpointner's large-scale sculptures as walk-through architecture is limited. The process of visualisation, however, opens up possibilities of rendering the spatial aspects of a small-scale work of sculpture in any desired dimension and thus enabling an observer to experience it as plastic, walk-in architecture. A co-operation project with ARCHIMEDIA Institute for Arts and Technologies, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Linz.