My short Impression of the Ars Electronica 2008 from the view a new media artist

1. Techtalk vom 13. Oktober 2008
Thema: Ars Electronica

2. Ars Electronica
When: Thu 4 - Tue 9 September 2008
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Where: Linz in Österreich
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Subject: Art, Technology and Society
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3. What is Ars Electronica?
One of the biggest Media Art Festival in
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Europa
The festival is almost 30 years old
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Structure of the Event
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Conference Rooms
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Panel discussions
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art exhibitions
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New Media Artist Stands like a trade fair
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Objective: A productive discourse betweens
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scientist and artists, which opens new
perspectives
One main issue
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4. Ars Electronica 2008
Issue: A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY – The Limits of Intellectual
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Property
Objectives:
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● find new business modells
● Find new definitions of knowledge and future trends of (New) Media
● Find new concepts for a useful(!) law management
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Main Focus: that year it was more from economic perspective
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5. Short Reviews
The Projects
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image fulgurator
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SamplingPlong
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Levelhead
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Reactable
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Main focus on Interaction Design projects
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Especially tangible User Interfaces
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My Presentation system:
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Short Description
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Show some Videos
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6. Image Fulgurator
What is it?
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The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically
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manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a
photo is being taken, without the photographer
being able to detect anything. The manipulation
is only visible on the photo afterwards.
Links:
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http://www.juliusvonbismarck.com/fulgurator/
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http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=EAX_3Bgel7M
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7. Sampling Pong
Creating the mouse cursor metapher in a
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physical Space
Links:
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http://www.schroeder-niehage.de/samplingplong.html
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http://www.schroeder-niehage.de/samplingplong_video.html
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8. Levelhead
An augmented-reality Memory Game. Find
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the right exit by rotate the cubes
Links:
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http://julianoliver.com/levelhead
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http://vimeo.com/1320756
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9. reactable
The reactable is a collaborative electronic music
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instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch
interface. Several simultaneous performers share
complete control over the instrument by moving and
rotating physical objects on a luminous round table
surface.
Links:
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http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/
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http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc
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http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=MPG-LYoW27E
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10. Benefits for Liip
Benefits for Liip?!
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Getting inspiration for new projects (Hackday)
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Understand our technical-based knowledge more as
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a Tool than the main big thing.
Starting some activity in E-Learning programms for
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Science Centre?!
More Information on my Blog (www.derhess.de)
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Ars Electronica
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Website: http://www.aec.at/en/festival2008/
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Visit Linz and the Media Science Centre! ;-)
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