Gerfried Stocker / Christine Schöpf
(español)
Simplicity—the pipedream of a society dominated by technical revolutions, global networks and inundations of information from mass media? The mantra of a new generation of user-centered information designers? Dogma of technophobic naysayers to progress? Or merely the—as yet unfulfilled—promise of IT companies? There has been hardly a concept of late that […]
Gulliver’s World thematicizes the relationship between virtual and material reality and the reality that is a blend of these two components.
(spanish)
In conjunction with the 2002 Ars Electronica Festival, Hidden Worlds
was installed as the first permanent exhibition based on mixed reality technology. The following year, the Ars Electronica Futurelab collaborated with Prof. Hirokazu Kato (Osaka […]
Humphrey 2
(spanish)
In the beginning, there was Humphrey— a mechatronic device that worked in conjunction with a pair of data glasses to simulate flight in a 3-D environment.
This installation in the Ars Electronica Center has been a smash hit with visitors ever since the opening of the museum, which has replaced almost all of the “exhibits” […]
Karin Ohlenschläger
Luis Rico
(spanish)
The project Digital Transit sets out to examine the interconnections between art, science and technology, and the social dynamics that are generated around them. It passes through permeable spaces that provide productive interferences between imageries, concepts and different methods. Overall, it offers a transdisciplinary approach, which we understand as a means of interpreting, […]
Gerfried Stocker
(spanish)
The art of tomorrow is the art of the media. This art is just as much visual image as music and performance; hardware-handicraft and software-concept in equal measure. What once could have been subsumed under the heading of media art has since branched out into a multiplicity of new artistic genres, symbiotic forms whose […]
Heimo Ranzenbacher
Gerhard Dirmoser
(spanish)
Heimo Ranzenbacher: 25 years of Ars Electronica—in its own way, this project has always nurtured a prospective perspective. But this year, its 25th, “Timeshift” is explicitly focusing on the future. In your retrospective look at the quarter-century-long history of this undertaking, though, you utilize a technique whose roots go back to the distant […]
