Ars Electronica
The Ars Electronica (from the Latin ars Art) is a festival for the presentation and promotion of art in close contact with (digital ) technology, and social issues, which takes place every year in Linz (Upper Austria ).
History
The first Ars Electronica was opened on September 18, 1979 under the International Bruckner Festival together with the first Linz Cloud of Sound and the music of Bruckner 's Eighth Symphony. As project precursor sometimes the metal forum is called. Initiators of the festival were the ORF Upper Austria and the Bruckner Hall in Linz. The concept of the Ars Electronica as a forum for the exchange of ideas and place of the presentation of projects at the interface of art, technology and society went to Hannes Leopoldseder, director of the ORF Studios Upper Austria, the electronic musician Hubert Bognermayr, music producer Ulrich Rützel and cybernetician and physicist Herbert W. Franke back. Worldwide this series of events was one of the first who grappled with digital art and its possibilities as well as the social impact of digital technology.
Components of the Ars Electronica
Both in the real and in the virtual world, the Ars Electronica includes the following sections:
- Ars Electronica Center (AEC): The " Ars Electronica Center - Museum of the Future " in Linz is the leading museum of digital art and media art. It was opened in 1996 and presented to the visitors on 3000 m² projects around the computer art and technology. For the Capital of Culture year 2009, the AEC was double the size to the east.
- Ars Electronica Futurelab: The Futurelab pursues interdisciplinary research projects in the field of tension between art, technology and society.
- Ars Electronica Festival: see below
- Prix Ars Electronica: Marked with the Prix Ars Electronica, sometimes called the "Oscar" of computer art projects will be awarded in the field of digital art and media annually. The award takes place at the time (2013 ) in the following categories: Computer Animation / Film / Visual Effects
- Interactive Art
- Digital Musics & Sound Art
- Hybrid Art
- Digital Communities
- U19 - create your world (until 2010 called freestyle computing )
- [the next idea ] Art and Technology Grant
- Collide @ CERN
- OHIM - Ars Electronica Prize
Festival
The Ars Electronica Festival as a cornerstone of the Ars Electronica is performed annually since 1979 in Linz, accompanied by a large media coverage. It is the most important international festival of digital arts, which presents trends and long -term trends on the future in the form of works of art, discussion forums and scientific support. Until 1995 it was headed by Peter Weibel, 1996 by Gerfried Stocker.
Exhibitions and performances are held at the Ars Electronica Center, in the Bruckner House, the Lentos, in the premises of the University of Art and Industrial Design, and at various other locations in Linz. Only in 2010 were all exhibitions, symposiums and also the award of the Prix Ars Electronica in one place, the buildings of the former Tobacco Factory Linz merged.
The main focus, there are several collaborations with research institutions such as the University of Tokyo (2008), the MIT Media Lab (2009 ) or the Japan Media Arts Festival (2009) who present their work at the festival. From the Ars Electronica funded media art projects take place in cooperation with companies and research institutions such as the CERN regularly.
The festival also offers symposia on techno - cultural phenomena and the philosophical and theoretical aspects of technological development will be implemented with the participation of international experts in addition to the exhibitions.
The festival is held every year is a different theme: