You can watch the Live stream from Art.on.Wires 2012 directly via FeM's Streaming Server or if you happen to still use Flash Player on the iStuff Website. Recorded video is availavle for download at http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/cccontent/art-on-wires/

We have started selling festival tickets tonight. Order your ticket at our tickets page now. There are three price categories for students, regulars and business. All tickets are valid for the entire festival duration and admit entrance to all events. We will not sell day-tickets this year, so if you like to come on a limited number of days only you would still have to purchase a full ticket.

The number of tickets is limited to 100. You can purchase a single ticket per order only, however, ordering multiple tickets in different transactions is possible. For people from Norway we will ship tickets before the festival if they were purchased no later than April 23. Everyone else can pick up the ticket at the festival entrance starting from the first festival day April 30, 9am.

We're looking forward to welcoming you at Art.on.Wires 2012 and wish you an inspiring event.

We have officially announced the Art.on.Wires Festival 2012 and an initial list of invited workshops in a recent press release. In the hope you'll find our selection interesting and inspiring we are looking forward to welcome you at the festival. See the Press Area for details.

An official schedule including detailed workshop descriptions will follow during the next days. Ticket sales will start on April 1, 2012.

The designs of our 2012 festival posters and flyers are finished and they are in print right now. Here's a preview of the designs we've selected. Special thanks to Katrin, Anke and Echa for making them.

Art.on.Wires is an annual arts and science festival for young and innovative artists, researchers and creative professionals who work in the fields of new media art, information technology, and communication design. From 30. April to 5. May 2012 we set up a temporary laboratory in Oslo, Norway with the aim of creating, exploring and researching emerging forms of artistic expression enabled by new media technology.

AOW Talks is a new platform for researchers and artists to disseminate their work to a broad and interdisciplinary audience. AOW Talks are arranged as a session of selected and high-quality talks of at most 15 minute duration plus 5 minute Q&A which are live broadcasted to the Internet and made available as online recordings.

We call for multimedia researchers, scientists, engineers, artists, and designers to submit a one-page abstract and optionally a short video clip of at most 3 minutes length presenting their original work in the following fields:

• artistic programming toolkits
• video projection mapping
• remote presence art
• 3D printing and 3D copying
• motion sensing
• wearable computing
• information visualisation

Please submit your proposal as a single PDF file at our submission page. Choose 'AOW Talks' as category and select appropriate topics. Submission is open until Saturday, March 31 2012, 23:59h. All submissions are reviewed by a program committee and decisions will be announced on April 7, 2012.

For further questions please contact us at contact [at] art-on-wires [dot] org.

Art.on.Wires is an annual arts and science festival for young and innovative artists, researchers and creative professionals who work in the fields of new media art, information technology, and communication design. From 30. April to 5. May 2012 we set up a temporary laboratory in Oslo, Norway with the aim of creating, exploring and researching emerging forms of artistic expression enabled by new media technology.

We call for media artists, designers, lecturers and researchers who enjoy sharing their knowledge in hands-on workshops in one of the following fields:

• artistic programming toolkits (OpenFrameworks, Cinder, MaxMSP, VVVV, etc.)
• video projection mapping
• sound processing toolkits (Ableton Live, etc.)
• 3D printing and 3D copying
• motion sensing (e.g. Kinect)
• hardware hacking and circuit bending (e.g. Arduino or other platforms)
• wearable computing
• glitch art
• information visualisation

Workshops should focus on practical activities and learning by doing. A workshop may either be half-day or full-day, depending on scope and activities planned. Participants should be able to take something home, be it a tangible object or an open-source/freeware software to continue experimenting.

Interested people or groups can send an application containing

• a brief workshop proposal [max 1 page] including a short description, workshop duration, target audience, required skills, maximum number of participants, infrastructure and equipment requirements, and costs for materials (e.g. hardware, if any)
• a short biography of the presenter or group [max 3 pages]
• a URL to supplemental material (website, video, etc)

Please submit your proposal as a single PDF file at our submission page. Choose 'Workshop Proposals' as category and select appropriate topics. Submission is open until Saturday, March 31 2012, 23:59h. All submissions are reviewed by a program committee and decisions will be announced on April 7, 2012. Selected workshop presenters will receive a grant covering travel and accommodation during the festival.

For further questions please contact us at contact [at] art-on-wires [dot] org.

Art.on.Wires is an annual arts and science festival for young and innovative artists, researchers and creative professionals who work in the fields of new media art, information technology, and communication design. From 30. April to 5. May 2012 we set up a temporary laboratory in Oslo, Norway with the aim of creating, exploring and researching emerging forms of artistic expression enabled by new media technology.

Information technology has substantially changed our life in recent years and will continue to do so. What's drawn up on scientists' desks today will become part of our daily life in some years. 3-D and remote presence technologies will further blur the distance between remote communication and face-to-face meetings, machine recognition will make every person uniquely identifiable with a simple video camera, data-mining techniques will enable everyone to extract every single piece of information about a person, and filtering techniques will control what we are supposed to know.

Our main theme for 2012, 'Welcome to your Electrified Life' seeks to contrast the history of electrification with today's digitalisation. The electrification of our society during the 19th century drastically changed production, the public face of cities and everyday life in a way similar to  changes we can observe today where digital information and communication devices penetrate into the last corner of private life in real-time. Digital communication has a tremendous potential to democratise the world purely by free access to information, but it poses at the same time the biggest threat to independent and self-determined living since it is easy to manipulate and access is easy to restrict.

We call for young media artists from the following fields who take a critical look at chances and risks of today's technology through their artworks.

• VJ's and visual artists
• sound designers and experimental electronic music artists
• dancers and choreographers
• film makers and photographers
• designers and architects

We welcome submissions in the field of new and electronic media art such as tangible objects, interactive installations, live performances or the like which will be presented in an exhibition and live events during the festival. We particularly encourage submissions that explore the current digital landscape by drawing parallels to yesterday's electric revolution.

Interested artists or groups can send an application containing

• name, contact address and a short biography of yourself/your group [max 1 page]
• title of your work and year of creation
• a brief description of your work [max 1 page]
• technical requirements for exhibiting/performing your work [max 1 page]
• a URL to supplemental material (website, video, etc)

Please submit your proposal as a single PDF file at our submission page. Choose 'Artists and Artworks' as category and select appropriate topics. Submission is open until Saturday, March 31 2012, 23:59h. All submissions are reviewed by a program committee and decisions will be announced on April 7, 2012. Selected artists will receive a travel grant to attend the festival.

For further questions please contact us under contact [at] art-on-wires [dot] org.

Volunteer at Art.on.Wires 2012

Art.on.Wires Festival offers a range of opportunities to join the team and gain experience in staging art, technology and music events.

The festival takes place from 30. April to 5. May 2012, and will feature workshops, presentations, music events and a new media arts exhibition. Long and short term placements for volunteers are available in preparation and during the festival, including working on marketing, production, artist liaison, front of house, rigging and other areas.

We look for commitment and, above all, willingness to get involved. You will have to get along with artists, audiences and the rest of the team to make the festival a great success. We really can't do this without you.

In return we ensure that you receive great experience and support from our core team, free festival entrance to all events and t-shirts. We positively welcome applications from all sectors of the community from Oslo, Norway and abroad. Please understand that we cannot pay accommodation or travel costs for volunteers, but we will help to find a couch-surfing place or a cheap place to stay.

To apply to volunteer for the festival please send your application containing

• a motivation letter explaining us why we should select you [max 1 page]
• a short biography including name, date of birth, and contact information [max 3 pages]
• a URL to supplemental material (website, videos, etc)

as email to volunteers [at] art-on-wires [dot] org. For further questions please contact us at contact [at] art-on-wires [dot] org.

We relaunced our website with a new, simple and clean design. It seemed very much necessary to do something about its look and usability. We hope you like the new design. We've added many pictures and videos from our last festivals, see here, here and here. The main menu is already streamlined for 2012, although the different pages are not completely filled up yet. We expect this to happen in the next couple of weeks.

Some techie background: We're using our own WordPress template derived from the commercial Reach theme from EugeneO. That theme made stylistically and code-wise a very professional impression. It's extremely well programmed and easy to handle. Posting became a pleasure and even extending the theme or changing small design issues turned out to be straigt forward (given you have some basic PHP and WordPress knowledge, but the Internet is your friend).

It was really a big time-saver to go for a commercial theme this time and it's not even that expensive. After all, we payed 35$ at ThemeForest, which is definitely worth spending. Thanks EugeneO! Including all the image editing, text writing, upgrading and cleaning of old content I got the new design up and running in less than one week. Compared to the one month it took last year it felt like a massive improvement.

Ingensteds used to be our favourite place since we started AOW in 2010. The spirit of our festival and our focus on arts education fits well into the core areas of the school and so we got permission to use the facilities for one entire week. We can expect to have many arts students from different disciplines visiting and we're looking forward to a great third festival year.