Placement of the digital suitcase at Ars Electronica Festival

The starting place of our project was the University in Linz. After preparing the digital suitcase we had to wait for an appropriate event. The Ars Electronica Festival (for media, art, science and society) in Linz was perfect for it. So on Sunday afternoon, September 4th, we started to place the suitcase in front of the main entrance of the Bruckner Haus in Linz. The Ars Electronica staff was in the beginning a little bit skeptical what's up with this suitcase. After a short exploration of the suitcase content, everything went on without problems.

Starting point University

Main entrance Ars Electronica Festival

Ars staff don't know what's going on

After the Ars staff observation some Ars Electronica visitors were super curious and opened the suitcase. They investigated the content of the suitcase and read the instructions. Unfortunately, they just looked at the content and closed the suitcase again. So the suitcase had to wait until someone else would take and place it somewhere.

Some interested people

Some more interested people

Take it or leave it?!

They took it. The suitcase travels now!

And finally, the digital suitcase was taken by two women. We guess they placed the suitcase at the Pfarrplatz in Linz. But we are not 100% sure...

Preparing the suitcases

After some visits at Volkshilfe, Linz flea market, and some supermarkets we found our final components. The next step was designing the suitcases. Make the suitcases somehow clearly visible for the people on public spaces was one of the most difficult tasks. We decided to write the name of our project with a very bright neon colour on our suitcases. We hope that causes enough attraction. In the end we placed our components in an order, so that attracts people to join our project. Here are some pictures of our suitcases.

Preparing and defining the instructions

After some conversations we found the final construction for each suitcase. Of course the instructions of the digital and analog suitcase differs. Here you can see our instructions:

The analog suitcase instructions:

 The digital suitcase: