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A museum unlike any other.(NEWS: CG TECHNOLOGY)
One of the most eye-popping, mind-expanding public facilities in the world, the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, has unveiled a remarkable new facility. With 3000 square meters of exhibit space and another 1000 devoted to its R&D facility, the Future Lab, the interactive museum offers visitors a view inside their bodies as well as a peek into the future. If you're familiar with SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technology exhibits, imagine a four-story building filled with more sophisticated and fully-realized interactive installations, and you'll have a small idea of what the Ars Electronica Center offers.
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This physical manifestation of the philosophy of the Ars Electronica, known in the US largely for its annual Prix Ars electronic and interactive art and animation competition, the center furthers Ars Electronica's research into the convergence of technological innovation, art, and human society. On the building's facade, 40,000 red, green, blue, and white LEDs turn the glass shell into animated art using preprogrammed patterns; the colorful light show is reflected in the waters of the Danube River below. In the lobby, artist Julius Popp's 22-meter-high "Bitflow," a gigantic eye formed from thousands of thin tubes that snake through the building, introduces visitors to Ars Electronica's current focus on life sciences. Drops of red fluid flow through the tubes like blood in ...
- Archival Rivals. (computer museums) (includes related article on the Ars...
- Magazine article from: Computerworld Picarille, Lisa January 20, 1997 700+ words
Pick anything considered to have some cultural significance even if it's debatable and somewhere there's a museum paying homage to it. Barbie dolls, toasters, automobiles, dinosaurs, television even Spam is thus enshrined. Meanwhile, art museums are everywhere; civic pride dictates that any major
- Ars Electronica: Linz, Austria - September 2-6, 1996.
- Magazine article from: Afterimage Lister, Ardele January 1, 1997 700+ words
The fabulous thing about Ars Electronica is that as an annual festival...dedicated to electronic art: Ars Electronica Center, Museum of the Future...under the bridge near the Ars Electronica Center. As they approached the...
- Ars Electronica.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Madoff, Steven Henry December 1, 2002 700+ words
...by a politically hip twist at the twenty-third annual Ars Electronica new-media festival. At a cost of nearly $1.7 million...calculus of community--as other, more compelling, work at Ars Electronica suggested. Among the sixty-seven honorable mentions and...
- Prix Ars Electronica 2000.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Computer Music Journal December 22, 2000 700+ words
In the 2000 Prix Ars Electronica competition, the Golden Nica for Digital Musics was awarded...and Russell Haswell for MiniDisc. The full list of Prix Ars Electronica results are on the World Wide Web at prixars.orf.at.
- In with the New.(Ars Electronica Festival)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International JANA, REENA September 1, 2001 700+ words
THE ORGANIZERS OF THIS YEAR'S Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, which takes place the first...power," says Gerfried Stocker, artistic director of Ars Electronica 2001. "While it's wonderful that 'new media' is getting...
- Ars Electronica.(Last Licks)
- Newspaper article from: Ice Cream Reporter September 20, 2007 700+ words
...publications noted the appearance of a new ice cream dispenser, created by a student, Demitrios Kargotis, and introduced at the Ars Electronica digital art festival in Linz, Austria earlier this month. The Dr. Whippy features a voice analyzer software that measures...
- Ars Electronica 1998 Prize Winners in Computer Music.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Computer Music Journal September 22, 1999 700+ words
The winners of the 1998 award winners of the Prix Ars Electronica have been announced. In the field of computer music, artists Peter Bosch and Simone Simons were awarded the Golden Nica for their...
- Prix Ars Electronica 1999.(News)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Computer Music Journal December 22, 1999 700+ words
The Prix Ars Electronica competition's music category was renamed from "Computer Music" to "Digital Musics" for 1999, broadening the scope of entries...
- When evaluating the state of media culture today. (Voiceover).
- Magazine article from: Afterimage Broeckmann, Andreas September 1, 2002 700+ words
...Germany, the ICC in Tokyo, Japan, and the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, all opened within the span...critics (just look at the participants in the 1995 Ars Electronica symposium on The Wired World, the January 1996...
- 3-D visions. (Technology Information)(Column)
- Magazine article from: Computerworld Johnson, Maryfran September 28, 1998 700+ words
...Twilight Zone's Rod Serling to show up and intone a few observations. This compelling demo took place at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, which uses 3-D visualization and virtual reality techniques to give skeptical business executives...