Repair – Sind wir noch zu retten
Begun in 1979, the annual Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology and Society is one of the world's foremost media art festivals, perennially on the hunt for innovation. Repair--the theme of the 2010 festival--invites experts in a range of fields to imagine alternative futures, tackling pressing issues of climate change, financial crisis and surveillance practices, among others.
In 2009 the Ars Electronica festival celebrated 30 years of bringing the latest developments in digital and electronic media to the public. The festival was held in Linz, Europe's Capital of Culture for that year, and was themed to address the dawn of an age called the Anthropocene-that is, an age in which humankind is capable, through science, of an unprecedented degree of self-manipulation and self-determination through genetic engineering and numerous developments in biotechnology. Contributors to this catalogue for Ars Electronica 2009 include Stephen Downes on "The Cloud and Collaboration," Xiao Qiang on "Constructing Self-Identity in the Connected Age," Juliana Rotich on "African and Environmentalism Online" and Alois Ferscha asking "How Much Technology Can Humankind Bear?" several special projects by the likes of Ryoji Ikeda, Alva Noto and Andres Bosshard, writings marking the festival's anniversary and much more.
Simplicity is the wishful pipe dream of a society overwhelmed by technological revolutions and endless streams of information. Simplicity is the ideology of both technophobic naysayers to progress and a new generation of information designers. Has there ever been a concept laid claim to by so many different quarters? And, as an expression of the central challenge of these times, what call could be more urgent? Which options and features could we possibly do without? And which would we dispense with gladly? In this volume artists, software designers and scientists conceive and construct new strategic and tactical approaches to managing complexity, streamlining information, creating simplicity--a spectrum of ideas bound by resistance and adaptation, and a spectrum of work featuring creatively designed alternatives, poetically useless machines and innovative new developments.
The Prix Ars Electronica stands as the world's most prestigious media art competition, awarded annually since 1987. Renowned for its consistency and the quality of submissions, it serves as a barometer for global media art trends. This publication showcases the recognized artworks from 2018 across several categories, including Computer Animation, Digital Communities, Interactive Art+, and u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD. Additionally, it features a selection of standout works from the European Commission’s STARTS Prize competition, which emphasizes innovative projects at the intersection of science, technology, and art. The Ars Electronica Festival, held in Linz from September 6–10, 2018, has been a platform for exploring the digital revolution and its societal impacts since 1979. The festival program spans five days and includes conferences, discussions, workshops, exhibitions, performances, and concerts, all organized in collaboration with global artists and scientists. Each year, the festival highlights a range of provocative and futuristic themes, reflecting ongoing artistic and scientific research in the evolving landscape of art and technology.
From Light Cells to Monumental Installations at Centre Pompidou
AROTIN & SERGHEI’s Infinite Screen reflects contemporary visuality. As an evolutive inter-medial installation, it investigates the idea of the infinite beyond the limits of our screens, the origins of light and the iconography of digital information. Like luminous and transcendent symphonies of light, their intermedial works of art describe both, the macrocosm and the microcosm of our world, using screens as symbols and portals to infinity within constantly evolving parameters of scientific, mythological, philosophical, and architectural frameworks. This book retraces the artist’s supraliminal work-in-progress, from the intermedial paintings of red, green, and blue Light Cells—the DNA of today’s visual language—to the monumental installations at Ars Electronica, the Venice Biennale, the Fondation Beyeler, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, and at Centre Pompidou Paris.
The Ars Electronica has been accompanying and analyzing the digital revolution and its manifold implications since 1979, consistently focusing on processes and trends at the interface between art, technology, and society. This artistic, scientific research is presented annually in Linz in the form of a festival whose five-day program includes conferences, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, performances, interventions, and concerts. It is planned, organized, and implemented in collaboration with international artists and scientists and always addresses a different volatile future issue.00Exhibition: Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria (07.-11.09.2017)
Ars Electronica has been accompanying and analyzing the digital revolution and its manifold implications since 1979. It has consistently focused and focuses on processes and trends at the interface between art, technology, and society. This artistic-scientific research becomes visible in the form of a festival that is organized every year in Linz (Austria). Its five-day program comprises conferences, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, performances, interventions, and concerts. The event is planned, organized, and produced in collaboration with international artists and scientists. Each festival addresses a different volatile future issue. This year it is the "Radical Atoms and the Alchemists of the Future." The volume uses images and texts to sketch this year's edition of the Ars Electronica Festival. (Linz, Austria, 8.9.-12.9.2016)-- Publisher's website
Much of which makes up our cities today stems from the industrial era. But how will cities and habitats be organized thereafter? What will they look like when more robots than people work in the factories, when objects are intelligently linked with one another, when cars drive by themselves and mail is delivered by drones, when climate change makes itself felt, the new megacities run out of air to breathe and the new ones run out of money? Rethinking urban habitats has already begun, and exciting ideas for new architecture and forms of social organization are emerging throughout the world that can keep pace with the changes taking place in upcoming decades.0Experts from all corners of the earth assemble in Linz to be part of an extraordinary think tank. With a total area of 100,000 square meters, the former mail and package distribution center on the railroad grounds becomes the venue for the festival and a laboratory for the city of the future. 00Exhibition: Ars Electronica The festival 2015, Linz, Austria (03.09-07.09.2015).
Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for artists using the computer to implement and design projects at the interface of art, technology and society.
Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer to implement and design creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society. This volume documents Ars Electronica 2008 with a selection of symposia, artist discussions, forums, workshops, concerts, performances and exhibitions.
