Ars Electronica : Biggest New Media Festival

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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Re:Yes!

[quigonn]

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 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 ground, and you're playing Quake or Unreal Tournament 2003! No joke, they ported these games to their CAVE, and since I know one of their programmers, they let me play these games once. It was just awesome, and I'm sure every /. reader will envy me. ;-)