Moon ride
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People hooked up their bicycles on one of the dozens of generators to provide the muscle power necessary to charge a giant battery. Each revolution of every set of pedals moved the battery charge indicator a little closer to full. In the evening, the stored energy was used to light up a giant balloon floating above the city. At a determined time in the night, the cyclists output was switched directly to the balloon: the harder they pedaled, the brighter the artificial moon. Images on flickr. Although their installation was quite poetic, the artists were not the first to get that idea: pedal-powered electricity, water-pumping merry-go-round, Energy supply from gym workout, Bikes turned into game controllers.
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Yesterday evening there was a long collective performance on the Hauptplatz (Main Square) of Linz. Moon Ride, developed by Austrian artists 
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Hey, just a note to say thanks for being there and documenting your ars experience. I really want to be there and I'm glad I can get an idea of what's going on through your eyes. -Bre
hi,
thanks for your comment. i'm going to post a list of the other blogs that report from the festival. not that many are in english actually.
if you read spanish, elastico.net is covering it, i'm sure they'll add a lot more in the coming days.
ars electronica also has a blog
http://www.aec.at/en/festival2006/blog/index.asp
r