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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2010

By Ray Hu - September 20, 2010

Ars Electronica Festival 2010 REPAIR in action in front of the Ars Electronica Center.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 "The world in 100 years" exhibition looks back at what people (such as Albert Robida) about a century ago expected when asking themselves "How will we live in the future?" - and showcases what contemporary thinkers foresee in 100 years from now.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Within the main gallery of the Ars Electronica Center we find several installations and laboratories focused on robotics, (micro)biology and the working of the human brain.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 After a 20 minutes performance ASIMO "needs a refresh" and walks from the stage to charge his backpack that carries a big Lithium Ion battery.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Three lucky visitors from the audience are invited to play and communicate with ASIMO in order to demonstrate its skills and ability to interact with us humans.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 TV presenter Fran Robinson (on camera) guides ASIMO's performance with a question and answer session.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 The large projection walls within the Deep Space room allow ASIMO to explain his history and former (rather scary) robot-predecessors.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Even though ASIMO is only 130 centimeters tall, the many camera-flashes show he is a big hero for today's audience.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Visitors can't wait to see Honda's ASIMO, one of the most advanced robots in the world that can shake hands, walk stairs and even run!
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 The Ars Electronica Center is also called "The museum of the future". From a distance the building is highlighted by some 1100 LED panels with computer controlled colors that light up more than 5000 m2 of glass facade.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 On location we decided to join the plant tour at the Voestalpine Stahlwelt (steel world), one of the biggest steel production sites in Europe.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Blood and Tears installation by Richard Kriesche is driven by realtime statistics driven by (Google) terms such as art, capital, human rights and climate change.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Red double-deck bus towards the Voestalpine Stahlwelt location where featured artist Richard Kriesche presents an even more red "blood and tears".
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Two of the many lifesavers ready to REPAIR at this year's Ars Electronica Festival 2010.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Design for Repair featuring Shoe Goo, a waterproof adhesive to fix worn out shoes.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Design for Repair featuring Shoe Goo, a waterproof adhesive to fix worn out shoes.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Christina Kubisch' electromagnetic headphones allow visitors to hear the invisible electromagnetic currents flowing through the Tobacco Factory.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Petra Wurz conducts percussion workshops with young musicians. The enormous Sound Space is used for its great acoustics enabling a natural (architectural) reverb of up to twelve seconds.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 The first robot we walk into is Tove Kjellmark's The Destruction of the Ego. Her unusual robot comes with a hysterical, almost human, laugh.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 The entrance of the Tobacco Factory is marked with a huge lifesaver.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 During the night, the main square slowly turns into a public dance floor.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Ars Electronica at night featuring enormous projections of media art on the facade.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Ars Electronica at night.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 After walking many stairs, these cardboard benches offer the necessary breaks.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 This homeless person (?) turned out to be a robot walking at the main square.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 This homeless person (?) turned out to be a robot walking at the main square.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 View from the top floor at Ars Electronica Festival 2010
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Firewall at this year's Ars Electronica Festival 2010.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 PROBEN (TRIALS) brings together 19 full scale, fully functional and fully awesome vehicles designed and produced by former design students at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Endless halls within the TabakFabrik, a former Tobacco Factory.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 The "Playful Interface Cultures" exhibition invites visitors to try, experience and play with several installations by members of the Interface Cultures department of the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Platform21 is a former design platform based in Amsterdam where repairing is the new recycling. During the Ars Electronica Festival 2010 participants show examples of their past works and demonstrate creative repair methods.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Within small cubicles we discover the Ars Electronica Animation Festival showing the state of the art of digital visual design.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the top floor we find the "Body & Soul Factory" which is all about getting ourselves repaired with Yoga, Shiatsu therapy and sound healing methods.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Kalle Laar brought together a fine collection of discarded speakers to realize the Symphony for broken speakers.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Back to the future?
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 A dozen electrical guitars in the basement make a wonderful concert, or better sound space.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 A dozen electrical guitars in the basement make a wonderful concert, or better sound space.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Conference talks featuring Andreas Hirsch (moderator, left), Carlo Ratti and Ginger Krieg Dosier and on stage. John Thackara joins in via video-conference discussing this year's theme REPAIR in the context of open source structures.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Benjamin Bergmann's Never Ever installation makes us look up and smile.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Benjamin Bergmann's Never Ever installation makes us look up and smile.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Ars Electronica The Tobacco Factory offered enough space for test-driving the latest e-bikes.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 The Tobacco Factory offered enough space for test-driving the latest e-bikes.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Local visitors getting themselves informed about solar cookers.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Local visitors getting themselves informed about solar cookers.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 An impressive range of festival items such as benches, stools, tables and trashcans made of cardboard were all made by the Papplab people. People loved them so much that all items were sold in the course of an auction.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Lots of hands-on (scrap) design at this year's Ars Electronica Festival.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Lots of hands-on (scrap) design at this year's Ars Electronica Festival.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Revital Cohen is a designer who develops critical objects and provocative scenarios. Phantom Recorder is one of her latest works researching the phantom sensations known at people who have lost a limb.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 This so called "plant" is made of 169 artificial leaves which are controlled using shape memory alloy actuators. See Akira Nakayasu's robotic plant in action at the video below.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 This bio-galvanic battery made of potatoes comes with a political story. Read more about Morgens Jacobsen comments on the Danish government at the website below.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Finnbogi Petursson brings together water and sound to create a beautiful wave patterns.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Finnbogi Petursson brings together water and sound to create a beautiful wave patterns.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 One of the few rainy moments during Ars Electronica Festival 2010.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 One of the many cardboard products made by Papplab.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Nico Ferrando's "My husband and me, me and my wife" is a series of photographs of 25 couples from different ages and ethnic groups. Some of their body parts are interchanged and arouse the discussion about gender, relationships, commitment, ... and definitely about love.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Requim for Dying Species exhibition featuring plastic bags symbolizing the consumer society of the 50's and 60's.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Requim for Dying Species exhibition featuring a concert of light bulbs.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Requim for Dying Species exhibition featuring a concert of light bulbs.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Requim for Dying Species exhibition featuring hanged combustion engines.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Requim for Dying Species exhibition featuring hanged combustion engines.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the NANK (New Work New Culture) area suggestions are made for alternative technologies and lifestyles such as producing oxygen with algae and staying healthy by eating salmons and water plants.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Origami meets robotics. See how blossom-like shapes respond to people passing by at Matthew Gardiner's website.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Origami meets robotics. See how blossom-like shapes respond to people passing by at Matthew Gardiner's website.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Dancing Information? Check out Akiko Hino's website and try for yourself.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Dancing Information? Check out Akiko Hino's website and try for yourself.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Concepts for a better future at The Next Idea exhibition.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Concepts for a better future at The Next Idea exhibition.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Telenoid is the latest project by Hiroshi Ishiguro and allows us to transfer words and emotions (through face expressions) over distance. The robot might look creepy at first sight but after a short talk most visitors get quite comfortable with him/her/it?
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 The ROBOT-ISM exhibition is held in collaboration with The Japan Media Arts Festival which promotes the creation and development of media arts. Selected animations are shown during this year's Ars Electronica Animation Festival.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 SWITCH is an edutainment kit designed to explore experience design and learn about the daily tasks of interaction designers. During the Ars Electronica Festival visitors can make their own SWITCH at the ELEKIT workshop.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Inspiring lectures at the Future Factory such as by Anthony Dunne discuss on the role of robots and new relationships between man and machine.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Necessary guidance within a enormous site of a former tobacco factory.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Critical statements at the entry hall Ars Electronica Festival 2010.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Critical statements at the entry hall Ars Electronica Festival 2010.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Linz was European Capital of Culture in 2009 - wooden stairways at the rooftop of the OK CENTRUM is one of the remaining which can still be visited and offers a great view over Linz old town.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 DJ's create vibrating sounds using two ventilators and amplifying microphones.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Ars Electronica at night.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Ars Electronica at night.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Jan Rafman's "Nine Eyes of Google Street View" celebrates Google's technologies and critiques the consciousness it reflects at the same time.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more. This EyeWriter wins this year's Golden Nica (a kind of Oscar of digital media).
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world. Here we see Thomas Thwaites' toaster which took nine months time and 1,500 Euros to make this himself.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world. Here we see (or better hear) Zimoum's 216 prepared dc-motors.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world. Here we see prototypes of the Ear on Arm project by Stelarc.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 At the CyberArts exhibition we get a closer look at ground breaking research projects from all over the world such as the Ear on Arm, The EyeWriter, The Discovery, The Toaster Project and many more.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Good foods and good weather during the first days of Ars Electronica 2010.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 These are not just plastic bottles. The Windowfarms Project helps thousands of city people to grow food in their apartments all year.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 This "soft bodies" performer needed nothing more than a single rock to capture the attention of dozens of visitors.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2010 Several signs are needed to guide all visitors towards the main entrance of the Tabakfabrik Linz, a former tobacco processing plant which is the main event area for this year's Ars Electronica Festival.
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Ars Electronica is a yearly festival for art, technology and society taking place in Linz, Austria. REPAIR is this year's theme and call action! Watch techy CyberArts, experimental labs and see ASIMO walk in Deep Space.