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Ars Electronica : Biggest New Media Festival

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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"

13 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. at last by thexdane · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Yes! by nijk · · Score: 5, Funny

    interactive plant growing Shit, I can't wait!

    1. Re:Yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      A missing punctuation mark makes your comment even more interesting.. Must be some plant...

      +10 to sheapshearer, please.

    2. Re:Yes! by quigonn · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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. ;-)

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  3. Am I the only one... by Nos. · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    1. Re:Am I the only one... by shfted! · · Score: 4, Funny

      That, my friend, describes most good art ;)

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  4. Shuffle the words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Electronic Media Festival: Biggest New Arse

  5. And the bearded among you by Tuvai · · Score: 4, Informative

    May enjoy Prix Ars Eletronica - The international CyberArts competition

    1. Re:And the bearded among you by diesterne · · Score: 5, Informative

      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:

      Many of the installations sent in for the Prix are exhibited in the OK museum in Linz as well as the Ars Electronica Center.

  6. Not music? by JThundley · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  7. An announcement for this would be nice... by sean@thingsihate.org · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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

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  8. Re:don't be so hard on your country! by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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)

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  9. Weblog about the event (in spanish) by werwerf · · Score: 2, Informative
    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 (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.

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