Ars Electronica : Biggest New Media Festival

Ars Electronica : Biggest New Media Festival 47

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 06, 2004 @03:22AM from the playing-with-the-world dept.

Brainsur writes "Live from Linz, Austria. At this moment the biggest Festival for new media and digital art is having place in Linz, Austria. Ars Electronica started in 1979 as a small group of nerds that came togheter to produce cyberarts, digital avant-garde media, digital electronic music and more. Now 25 years later you can experiment with all kinds of new technologies such as walk the internet with SevenMileBoots, interactive plant growing, tracing communications, Pixelspaces, ... If you are around it's definitely worth a visit. Check it out at Ars Electronica"

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at last (Score:5, Funny)

by thexdane ( 148152 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @03:28AM (#10166990)

finally i am able to wear my homemade tron outfit and actually fit in

- Re:at last (Score:1)
  
  by theTerribleRobbo ( 661592 ) writes:
  
  Remember to wear a cup [ibiblio.org].
Yes! (Score:5, Funny)

by nijk ( 781345 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @03:31AM (#10166997)

interactive plant growing Shit, I can't wait!

- Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @03:36AM (#10167010)
  
  A missing punctuation mark makes your comment even more interesting.. Must be some plant...
  
  +10 to sheapshearer, please.
  
- Re:Yes! (Score:3, Interesting)
  
  by quigonn ( 80360 ) writes:
  
  Yeah, the plant growing stuff is pretty cool. I live in Linz, Austria, and have been to Ars Electronica Center at least 10 times since they opened it. The plant growing installation [telegarden.aec.at] was one of the first installations there, established in 1996, and ran until August 2004. Their CAVE was also the first one in the world that was publicly accessible. It's so cool, with your 3D shutter glasses on, standing in a 3x3x3 m cube with 3D projections on the walls in front of you and left and right of you and on the gro
  - - Re:Yes! (Score:1)
      
      by Cyberdork ( 788032 ) writes:
      
      And here's what's left for the next CAVE version: force feedback! When someone shoots a rocket at you, you'll feel like you're blowing up.
      - Re:Yes! (Score:1)
        
        by Briareos ( 21163 ) writes:
        
        And here's what's left for the next CAVE version: force feedback! When someone shoots a rocket at you, you'll feel like you're blowing up.
        Well, a charge attached to the ceiling should do it - if you die in the game, it detonates and buries you in all the exhibits from the upper floors plus the concrete to go along with them...
        Problem solved.
        (Of course, the AEC's [www.aec.at] rubble right next to the Danube might look a bit strange, but it'll hardly look stranger than the Lentos building [lentos.at] on the other side...
Am I the only one... (Score:4, Funny)

by Nos. ( 179609 ) writes: <andrew@th[ ]rrs.ca ['eke' in gap]> on Monday September 06, 2004 @03:32AM (#10166999) Homepage

Who after reading the post and browsing through the site still doesn't have a very clear idea of what this is about?

- Re:Am I the only one... (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by shfted! ( 600189 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @03:43AM (#10167031) Journal
  
  That, my friend, describes most good art ;)
  
- Re:Am I the only one... (Score:1)
  
  by mardoen ( 557915 ) writes:
  
  The post is a bit misleading. The website is of the Ars Electronica Center, a building/museum for various media/art related stuff and open throughout the year. The correct link would have been http://www.aec.at/en/festival/ -- Ars Electronica Festival
Shuffle the words (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @03:32AM (#10167000)

Electronic Media Festival: Biggest New Arse

- Re:Shuffle the words (Score:1)
  
  by cL0h ( 624108 ) writes:
  
  Wouldn't that be
  Electronic Media Festival : Biggest new Arsa.
And the bearded among you (Score:4, Informative)

by Tuvai ( 783607 ) writes: <zeikfried@gmail.com> on Monday September 06, 2004 @03:57AM (#10167068) Journal

May enjoy Prix Ars Eletronica [www.aec.at] - The international CyberArts competition

- Re:And the bearded among you (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by diesterne ( 644827 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @04:29AM (#10167138) Homepage
  Unfortunately the Ars Electronica site is rather complex :/ For those who weren't able to find out (it's a lot of clicking), the Prix Ars Electronica, which is awarded in six different categories, is worth 5.000 Euros. Winners this year are:
  
  Net Vision: Creative Commons [www.aec.at]
  
  Interactive Art: Listening Post [www.aec.at] (This one is really cool when you're standing in front of it IRL)
  
  Computer Animation: Chris Landreth (CAN) [www.aec.at]
  
  Digital Musics: Thomas Koener (GER) [www.aec.at]
  
  Digital Communities: Wikipedia [www.aec.at]
  
  u19 freestyle computing: GPS::Tron [www.aec.at]
  
  Many of the installations sent in for the Prix are exhibited in the OK museum [ok-centrum.at] in Linz as well as the Ars Electronica Center.
Not music? (Score:3, Funny)

by JThundley ( 631154 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @03:58AM (#10167071)

This article has nothing to do with music at all?
Well they should go back to playing their didgeridoos.
Oh, Austria? My bad... mate.

i will be there! (Score:1)

by virtualone ( 768392 ) writes:

tomoroow i will get there, and it will be great as every year.
this festival is one of the very few reasons i am prod to be austrian!
- don't be so hard on your country! (Score:1)
  
  by King_of_Prussia ( 741355 ) writes:
  
  famous austrians include Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Strauss, Adolf Hitler, Sigmund Freud, Kurt Godel, Erwin Schrodinger and Marie Antionette, so you have plenty to be proud of!
  - Re:don't be so hard on your country! (Score:4, Insightful)
    
    by maxwell demon ( 590494 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @05:17AM (#10167261) Journal
    
    Well, in a list of people to be proud of, you don't want to add Adolf Hitler.
    
    (BTW, it's Gödel and Schrödinger, not Godel and Schrodinger - use ö to produce those with an US keyboard)
    
  - - Re:don't be so hard on your country! (Score:2)
      
      by kevcol ( 3467 ) writes:
      
      mayby not so worth mentioning:
      Arnold Schwarzenegger
      
      Why not? It doesn't matter what you think of his politics (actually quite moderate for his party- too bad he cant bring them in his direction) or his movies (well c'mon- Terminator is still a classic, no matter what came after)- anyone who is able to reach a level of success like that in the country who arrives as an immigrant is nothing to laugh at.
  - - Re:don't be so hard on your country! (Score:1)
      
      by Briareos ( 21163 ) writes:
      
      As they say:
      
      "The biggest accomplishments of Austrian diplomacy were making Mozart an Austrian and Hitler a German." :)
      
      np: Balil - Whirling of Spirits (Trainer (Disc 2))
An announcement for this would be nice... (Score:5, Insightful)

by sean@thingsihate.org ( 121677 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @04:53AM (#10167193) Homepage

All the time slashdot has these stories "I'm here at the whatever convention..." and there's never any announcement before-hand that it's going on.

Surely announcing this kind of stuff is just as news-for-nerd-worthy as what's on the next episode of cowboy bebop or whatever it is

Weblog about the event (in spanish) (Score:2, Informative)

by werwerf ( 85238 ) writes:

My brother his doing is PhD in History of Art with electronic art as subject, so he goes to all of these events (lucky bastard!)
You can find his weblog about the event here [sicplacitum.com] (he is going to kill me for this).
It's in spanish, so I suppose you can bablefish or something if you don't read Cervantes language.
---
there was a SIG here.
it is gone now.
(Quiz: where does my SIG comes from?)
related festival (Score:2)

by X_Bones ( 93097 ) writes:

If you're ever in Barcelona during the summertime and you're interested in this kind of thing, you might want to check out the Sonar [sonar.es] festival. It's a weekend-long new media festival, with exhibitions, discussion panels, and demonstrations each day and big-name electronic music artists each night. It's put on with the help of the Barcelona Muesum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) and the Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona (CCCB). I went in 2002 and had a hell of a time.
- Re:related festival (Score:1)
  
  by fokky ( 11590 ) writes:
  
  And if you live in -- or near -- the Netherlands, make sure to visit the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF04 [deaf04.nl], Rotterdam), which will take place this year from 9-21 November. Or, for Germans, the Transmediale [transmediale.de] festival in Berlin, 4-8 February 2005.
Pixeslpace? (Score:1)

by anicholo ( 702793 ) writes:

That sounds like a discrete vectorspace...
It's quite easy, you see, we can define a sum like...

p + q := ( (p1+q1) mod h , (p2+q2) mod v )

Where h is the amount of pixels per row, and v is the amount of pixels per colunm.

Then

c*p := ( (c*p1) mod h , (c*p2) mod v )

And That's it!

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at last (Score:5, Funny)

Re:at last (Score:1)

Yes! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Yes! (Score:3, Interesting)

Re:Yes! (Score:1)

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Am I the only one... (Score:4, Funny)

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Shuffle the words (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Shuffle the words (Score:1)

And the bearded among you (Score:4, Informative)

Re:And the bearded among you (Score:5, Informative)

Not music? (Score:3, Funny)

i will be there! (Score:1)

don't be so hard on your country! (Score:1)

Re:don't be so hard on your country! (Score:4, Insightful)

Re:don't be so hard on your country! (Score:2)

Re:don't be so hard on your country! (Score:1)

An announcement for this would be nice... (Score:5, Insightful)

Weblog about the event (in spanish) (Score:2, Informative)

related festival (Score:2)

Re:related festival (Score:1)

Pixeslpace? (Score:1)

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