Ars Electronica: Day 4

The morn­ing sees the under-19s work at the OK Center. These kids are scary. The win­ning work is an anim­a­tion called Rubber Duck. Again, not enough time to see everything. I’m start­ing to feel the pressure.

I spend a little time seeing the exhib­its at the OK Center that I didn’t make it to the night before. Last­ing impressions: 

“¢ Last, an inter­act­ive clock that records the image of who­ever is in front of it. The outer circle shows the last minute viewed, the middle circle the last hour and the inner circle the last 24 hours. It becomes a graphic art­work of the past in moving realtime.

“¢ Pocket full of memor­ies. View­ers are invited to scan an object and add keywords and inform­a­tion about its loc­a­tion and mean­ing, and choose attrib­utes from sliders (soft/hard; personal/impersonal; functional/symbolic). These are added to a data­base and dis­played along with sim­ilar objects. I scanned my travel talisman.
“¢ Maywa Denki, a bril­liant line of Japan­ese kawaii things, a fish elec­tric cord, a musical instru­ment shaped like a cross bow but with fish skel­eton spine fin bits, an auto­matic xylo­phone shaped like four flowers with moving petals.

Then to the anim­a­tion and visual effects forum where I listen to the win­ners from the other night talk about their works then on to an actual per­form­ance of Maywa Denki (hys­ter­ic­ally funny, abso­lutely bril­liant) and then to Prin­ciples of Inter­der­min­ism, a night-long per­form­ance of music and remix­ing, mostly way too avant-garde for me, but I *loved* the per­cus­sion pieces with mul­tiple huge xylo­phones while a guy did visual art based on four light-react­ive screens, candles and hand-held glow bug things. (Steve Reich/Justin Manor).

Totally missed: the dis­cus­sions of body inter­faces in the pixelspaces forum and the ”towards a soci­ety of con­trol” dis­cus­sion in the AEC. Too much to do!!!

Actu­ally went to bed straight after this, so first night of decent sleep for way too long.