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Robots, phantom limbs and a nostril-powered digital painting take center stage at Ars Electronica 2010. Organizers for the digital arts festival, a longtime magnet for madcap interactive designers, describe this year's exhibition as "a response to impending doom." They extend the idea by quoting French artist Yann Arthus Bertrand: "There’s no time left for pessimism."
As the curators say on the event's official website, "What we have to do now is proceed as quickly and consistently as possible in the direction we have known all too long that we have to move in—towards renewable forms of energy, sustainable regulation of the global financial market, reorganization of the way we work. Repair, rethink, reinvent."
The show, titled Repair - Ready to Pull the Lifeline, runs Thursday, Sept. 2 through Saturday Sept. 11 in Linz, Austria. Staged in an abandoned tobacco plant called the Tabakfabrik, Repair features more than 200 installations and events. Here's a sampling of some of the art pieces.
ASIMO / Honda
Honda’s humanoid robot ASIMO was designed to serve as another set of eyes, ears, hands and legs for people lacking full mobility. It will be on display at Ars Electronica.Follow us on Twitter: @hughhart and @theunderwire.
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