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Pablo Valbuena’s Augmented Sculpture v. 1.2 is a remarkable synthesis of modernist-minimalist sculpture and video projection. Strangely this fascinating piece was not shown at the main Ars Electronica 2007 exhibition space in the OK Centrum Gallery but was instead relegated to a rather decrepit building on the streets of Linz. Fortunately we wandered around the town long enough to stumble upon it. (more…)

Yoshimasa Kato and Yuichi Ito received honourable mention in the category interactive art for their work White Lives on Speaker, at Ars Electronica 2007. Remarkably the artists responsible for this fascinating work are 25 and 24 years old respectively. As the video (VIDEO CLIP) demonstrates the work entails hooking up a member of the audience to an electroencephalograph and feeding the subject’s brain waves into software (Max/Msp) that transposes them into audio frequency output that can power a heavy-duty loudspeaker.

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Jan Michael Hanni and Denise Kratzer’s Klangcode, 2007, subtitled as ‘The word as sound poetry’ is an outstanding student project shown in the Campus 2.0 exhibition in the Kunstuniversitat, Linz on the occasion of Ars Electronica: Goodbye Privacy festival 2007. The creators describe Klangcode as ‘ dividing language into phonemes that are transformed into sound poetry by physical movement’. in a text accompanying the work they explain that ‘language consists of mixtures of tones and sounds such that a single word consists of many sounds’ (neoanalog).

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Ray Lee’s Siren is a remarkable work that possesses sculptural, performative, and musical dimensions. (more…)

Se mi sei vicino (if you are close to me) was one of the more impressive interactive works in the Ars Electronica, Goodbye Privacy exhibition in the OK Centrum Gallery, Lintz. Cillari received honourable mention for her work, in my opinion she deserved more. (more…)

Ashok Sukumaran was winner of the Ars Electronica 2007 Golden Nica prize in the category of interactive art. A sample of his work was installed in the OK Centrum gallery of contemporary art in Linz, Austria. (more…)

Wim Delvoye received an award for excellence under Prix Ars Electronica’s new category ‘Hybrid Art’. This is for his remarkable Cloaca project (the term ‘cloaca’ is derived from the Australian artist Mike Parr’s use of the term which refers to the ultimate product of the human digestive system). Whereas Parr uses the concept of cloaca for expressionistic purposes Delvoye uses it to create a radically extended metaphor for capitalist consumer culture. (more…)

Winner of an award for excellence in the Digital Musics category at the 2007 Ars Electronica Aaron Thall´s Grist Drumcorps gave a powerful, complex and energetic performance in the Brucknerhaus concert hall, Linz, Austria on the evening of 10 September. (SEE VIDEO). (more…)