The Ars Electronica Festival for ‘Art, Technology and Society’ is starting again in Linz these days. Exactly one year ago, the ‘Spot on MozART’ project by Studio PCA and the Mozarteum University was represented there.
Who owns the truth? This question was addressed at last year’s Ars Electronic Festival in Linz’s Postcity. Studio PCA was also represented together with the Mozarteum University and its ‘Spot On MozART’ project.
The festival focussed on questions of interpretative sovereignty and participation. Participation and design at the interface between art, science and technology were central aspects of Spot On MozART. The interdisciplinary project focussed on the visual side of listening, specifically listening to Mozart. In ‘Mozart Contained’, guests watched a string quartet in a container thanks to projectors. Visitors influenced the volume and visualisation with their movements.
The overall solution represents a new approach to audience interaction that enables a dynamic interlude between the audience and the music/video. The chosen piece is characterised by the atypical dissonances (String Quartet in C major KV 465, ‘Dissonance Quartet’). The analytical interest of the project lies in how the visitors deal with these dissonances via the interactive control options, whether they defuse or intensify them.
Spot On MozART was part of the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition. Ars Electronica and the University of Art and Design Linz invite universities to present their work in the field of media art.
This year, as always, the Ars Electronica Festival remains in tune with the spirit of the times under the motto ‘Hope will turn the tide’.
