Ars Electronica 2010, REPAIR – ready to pull the lifeline
Ars Electronica is a conceptual and practical hackspace where designers, scientists, engineers, artists and researchers come together. This year we went to Ars for 3 days to see good work, and it was truly amazing. The festival's choice of the venue for this year –was the grounds of what used to be Linz's Tobacco Factory. This was already interesting in itself: an industrial complex of several well-maintained buildings that seemed to carry a lot of memory from its past. This setting fitted really well with the festival idea of repairing the broken world.
On the top of one of the buildings, we saw Benjamin Bergman's suprising basketball hoop. His work 'Never Ever' plays with the absurd. It presents something that is impossible or most likely not to happen, as you can see in the picture above.
As you walk around the multiple buildings and get lost in the innumerable floors and exhibition spaces, you stumble across a number of good pieces of work in art, science and technology. The following posts on the blog feature our thoughts and experiences at Ars Electronica 2010.
