The beginning of this new year has been marked by the opening of the new  Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, this new space is entirely dedicated to Media Arts and is going to be the main venue for the famous austrian festival.

The building has a very complex architecture with an LED façade covering 5100 m2, it comprises 6 different spaces for exhibitions.

ART + COM is presenting various innovative projects that have been shown at the festival since 30 years. >> Showcase is exhibiting hybrid creation at the junction between media arts, technology, design and science.>> Poesie der Bewegung [Poetry of Motion] explores the artworks’ cinetic dimension  >> Funky Pixels focuses on showing examples of human/computer interaction and real vs. virtual worlds. >> Deep Space presents some immersive environments, multi-screen, surround and 3D projects.

Finally, the Main Gallery – is showcasing the opening exhibition :
New Views of Humankind, which are projects assembled under 4 themes > BioLab > BrainLab > FabLab > RoboLab

Below is a video of the Opening Performance, on the 3rd of January  2009
Lights On > Visuals (yes yes no) + Sound Design (Daito Manabe, JP)