Opening night of Ars Electronica

The theme of Festival Ars Electronica 2011 was "Origin - How it all begins". Several new challenges are attempted for instance; Ars Electronica collaborates with CERN which is the institute research origin of matter, and universe, on the other hands "Create Your World" which is a new festival is held at once for children and their family of Linz and neighbouring area. The final attendance figure-83,976-makes Ars Electronica 2011 the second most successful festival since 1979 in terms of the number of visitors, and the numbers of participated Japanese artists were 67, it was the second biggest number topped only by Austrian artists. The active one-week festival was held using all over the Linz city like : in the St. Mary's cathedral (Mariendom), CyberArts exhibition in OK center, Campus exhibition in Kunstuni, and surrounding the Ars Electronica Center, many tents and cars which were the venue of Create Your World.

• Date: 31 Aug. - 6 Sep. 2011
• Venue: Ars Electronica Center, 　 Mariendom, Brucknerhaus, Kunstuniversität Linz

 

＊Ars Electronica Festival 2011 Website
→ http://new.aec.at/origin/category/blog/

Participate artists from Japan

Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi, Satoru Higa, Junji Watanabe, Hideyuki Ando, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Oriza Hirata, Open Reel Ensemble（Ei Wada, Kimitoshi Sato, Haruka Yoshida, Takumi Namba, Masaru Yoshida）、 Masato Takahashi, Kouji Ohno, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Nobu Miake, Toshikazu Toyama, Marika Hayashi, Akira Tsukimori, Ryuma Niiyama, Takashi Mikami, Hironori Mizoguchi, So Kanno, Yuhei Yamamoto

• Campus Exhibition participants: Anna Gruebler, Ayano Suzuki, Dushyantha Jayatilake, Fumiaki Murakami, Fumitoshi Ogaki, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Hiroaki Yano, Hiroko Haraguchi, Hiroo Iwata, Hiroshi Kasai, Ikkaku Kawaguchi, Ikumi Aihara, Jun Mitani, Junki Ikeuchi, Junya Kataoka, Kazuki Iida, Kenji Suzuki, Kouki Hayafuchi, Makiko Hoshikawa, Mari Matsumoto, Marin Takahama, Masashige Iida, Miho Kyoya, Nao Kozono, Nodoka Sakamoto, Novmichi Tosa (Maywa Denki), Ryota Kuwakubo, Shinya Shimizu, Takahiro Kamatani, Takuro Osaka, Tomoe Moriyama, Toshiaki Uchiyama, Toshimasa Yamanaka, Yuki Tabuchi, Yuko Asai, Yuri Tanaka, Yuki Akamine, Takeyuki Aoki, Yu-uki Enzaki, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hideo Sano, Yoshihiro Kaneko, Nobuyoshi Saito