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General Information about the activities of Ars Electronica
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Art - Technology - Society
Linz, Austria - Hometown of Ars Electronica and Cultural Capital of Europe 2009
… changed from old industry to newand innovative businesses and turned into a modern cultural city.
Extension to 6500m², Opening Jan. 2009
1996
Ars Electronica Center (since 1996)Museum of the Future
Festival Ars Electronica (since 1979)Festival for Art, Technology and Society
Ars Electronica FuturelabLaboratory for Future Innovations
Prix Ars Electronica (since 1987) international Competition for Cyberarts
1987
2005 2009
Ludwig Boltzmann Research Institute for Media Art Research and Digital Archives 4 years funding (15 staff)
New Ars Electronica Center
Ars Electronica InternationalNew York, Taiwan, Shanghai, Beijing,Madrid, London, Kiew, Singapore,Florence, Tunis, Geneva, Moskau …
2004
Ars Electronica Timeline
1979
Ars ElectronicaFestival for Art, Technology and Society (since 1979)
The essence of the internationally renowned Ars Electronica Festival is interdisciplinarity and an open encounter of international experts from the arts and sciences with a broad audience of highly diverse backgrounds and interests.
Annually since 1979, the Festival has featured a lineup of symposia, exhibitions, performances and events designed to further an artistic and scientific confrontation with the social and cultural phenomena that are the consequences of technological change.
1990 – Ars Electronica Festival on Virtual Reality
1992 – Ars Electronica Festival on Nanotechnology
1998 – Ars Electronica Festival on Information Warfare
1999 and 2000 – Ars Electronica Festivals onLife Science,
Genetic EngineeringFuture of Human Reproduction
2006 – Ars Electronica Festival on making technology more human
2007 – Ars Electronica Festival on Privacy and Surveillance
started together with Ars Electronica in 1979, the “Klangwolke” represents one of the foundations of Ars Electronica:
Reaching out for the visitors bringing art into the public space.
Attracts up to 100.000 people every year.
1984 – “Universe” by Isao Tomita
Linzer Klangwolke (Cloud of Sound)
1984 – “Universe” by Isao Tomita
Ars Electronica 1994
“Audience Participation”by Loren Carpenter
A unique mass-audience-interaction on the main square of Linz
Over 4000 people are playing together on a large computer-screen
Ars Electronica 2002 – Bodymovies by Rafael Lozano Hemmer
Ars Electronica 2002 – Bodymovies by Rafael Lozano Hemmer
Ars Electronica 2002 – Bodymovies by Rafael Lozano Hemmer
7 Categories
3.300 Entries
Price money: 127.500 €
Prix Ars ElectronicaInternational Award-Competition for Cyberarts
As the world’s premier cyberarts competition, the Prix Ars Electronica has been a forum for artistic creativity and innovation since 1987.
It is the trend barometer in an ever-expanding and increasingly diversified world of media art.Thanks to its annually recurring nature, its international scope and the incredible variety of the works submitted for prize consideration, the enormous Prix Ars Electronica Archive provides a detailed look at the development of media art and a feel for its openness and diversity.
• Computer Animation / Visual Effects (1987)
• Digital Musics (1987)
• Interactive Art (1990)
• Hybrid Art (2006)
• Digital Communities (2004)
• u19 - freestyle computing (1998)
• Award for Media.Art.Research (2006)
• [the next idea] Grant (2004)
Prix Ars ElectronicaInternational Award-Competition for Cyberarts
since 1987 more than 42.000 entries from ca. 30.000 artists from 87 nations
More than 2,2 Mio € have been given away as price money
John Lassetter,Myron Krüger, Peter Gabriel,K.H. StockhausenAphex Twin, Ruichi Sakamoto, Toshio Iwaii,Tim Berners Lee, Neal Stephenson, Linus Thorwalds, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Christa Sommerer,Pixar, Digital Domain, Blue Sky Studios,Tomek Baginsky
…...
Prix Ars ElectronicaInternational Award-Competition for Cyberarts
(the old) Ars Electronica Center
opened in 1996 as a prototype of a
"Museum of the Future.“
about 1600 m² Exhibitionspace
about 85.000 visitors per year
Its mission is to utilize interactive forms of mediation to facilitate the general public’s
encounter with virtual reality, digital networks and modern media.
A focus on issues at the interface of media art, new technologies and social
developments characterizes the Center’sinnovative exhibitions.
(the old) Ars Electronica Center
Humphrey
Gullivers World
Ars Electronica FutureLabThink Tank, Laboratory for Art and Technology
The Futurelab is a new kind of media art laboratory in which artistic and technological innovations engender reciprocal inspiration.
The lab’s teams bring together a wide variety of specialized skills; their approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity and international networking.
The Futurelab’s wide-ranging activities include designing and engineering exhibitions, creating artistic installations, as well as pursuing collaborative research with universities and joint ventures with private sector associates.
Ars Electronica Futurelab
• Artist in Residence Projects
• Exhibition and Museum Design
• Research & Development
• Consulting
1000 m² for Production, Studio and Offices
40 - 60 artists & researchers
Clients:
• Artists, Festivals, Museums, Concert Halls
• local Companies and gov. Institutions
• but also internationals like Siemens, Vodafon, SAP
„Apparition“ - Klaus Obermair / Ars Electronica Futurelab
Interactive 3D visualisation of Mahlers 2nd Symphony
Source Code - interactive art project for SAP Germany
INSTAR – prototype for a future car navigation system
In Jan. 2009 the new Ars Electronica Center new museum opened
providing 6.500m² for new exhibits, including space for events as well as
research and education.
Architect: Andreas Treusch
Architect: Andreas Treusch
Research and Development
Exhibition and Education
Events and Presentations