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What’s True? Between Image and Illusion
In an age where algorithms can generate moving images and voices, and even facts, what remains true? This article takes a look at art, AI and responsibility, and considers how we renegotiate truth in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Cutting Edge: Between click and control
The project “Made to Measure — I is a Search Engine” examines how tech companies develop strategies to profit from human weaknesses and insecurities by analyzing user data.
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Christine Schöpf 1948 — 2025
It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Christine Schöpf—a formative figure in media art and for all of us, without whom Ars Electronica would not be what it is today.
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The blurry line between the arts and healthcare
The Ars Electronica Festival 2025 blurred boundaries between art and healthcare, showing how creative practices can power health innovation and re-imagine patient-centred care.
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Cutting Edge: Sleeping for the Future
“Perfect Sleep” shows how more sleep can lead to less consumption and CO₂ emissions, thus offering a simple counter-model to the compulsion for growth.
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Co-Create Futures in the Making
The Ars Electronica Futurelab invites you: Experience the latest works of the artistic R&D laboratory and atelier at the Ars Electronica Festival and collectively shape diverse futures!
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Music by humans and machines
Waltzes with artificial intelligence, organ music with robotics, interactive performances, and club nights: the musical program of the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 opens up new realms of experience for its visitors.
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Democracy in Action, or: The Art of Resistance
Democracy thrives on resistance and participation. At the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, artistic projects will show how protest opens up new spaces, strengthens communities, and creates visions for a shared future.
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Clear the stage for theater & digital media
Theater has always been an art form that combines different media—today, this includes digital technologies. The Ars Electronica Festival 2025 showcases some of the most exciting examples.
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Ars Electronica Festival 2025
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The blurry line between the arts and healthcare
The Ars Electronica Festival 2025 blurred boundaries between art and healthcare, showing how creative practices can power health innovation and re-imagine patient-centred care.
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That was the Ars Electronica Festival 2025
For five days, Linz once again became a meeting place for art, technology, and society—and POSTCITY served as a stage for encounters, experiments, and visions one last time.
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Rethinking the Future of Europe through Art and Culture
Art and culture are driving forces for a resilient Europe of the future. But real change can only come from collaboration—and it is precisely this collaboration that is at the heart of the Ars Electronica Festival 2025.
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Co-Create Futures in the Making
The Ars Electronica Futurelab invites you: Experience the latest works of the artistic R&D laboratory and atelier at the Ars Electronica Festival and collectively shape diverse futures!
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Music by humans and machines
Waltzes with artificial intelligence, organ music with robotics, interactive performances, and club nights: the musical program of the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 opens up new realms of experience for its visitors.
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Democracy in Action, or: The Art of Resistance
Democracy thrives on resistance and participation. At the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, artistic projects will show how protest opens up new spaces, strengthens communities, and creates visions for a shared future.
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