Thursday 2 April 2009

ARS Electronica

I just got back from a short trip to Linz, Austria.
I went there to visit the Ars Electronica, a center for art+media+technology, as part of my research for my major final project. And what was supposed to clarify the horizons, so far it just made it all very blurred... Maybe I needed another couple of days breathing the cleaner air. It was very inspiring though.



Broken exhibit!!!!!!! What a shame!!!



Eric Dyer - Bellows - machine based on the same principle as the zoetrope, but instead of the physical shutter and the human eye, it's replaced by the camera.



Tadashiru Suzuki L-E-D , LED, L-ED. Panel made with LED/beads in strings. It leaves a blank space where the viewer generates the next idea, form, concept.



Multi-touch screens, machines, cameras, robots. Interaction, participation, inclusion. Art and science equals virtual reality. 

picture taken of the back of my eye ball, and put up as part the exhibit later:




The Art+Com exhibition was a bit disappointing since only 1 out of 20 was the real exhibit. All the other 19 were videos about each of them explaining and showing how they were made. The one which caught my attention the most was the Machiavelli's Virtual Opera project, commissioned by the Opera Biennale Munich.


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