2019
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The Year in Review 2019 – Part 2/2
It’s July: After we woke up from this opening fever, the festival preparations and last but not least the preparations for our big birthday party continue at full speed. 40 years of Ars Electronica is the title of Part Two of our Year in Review! Have fun on this little journey through history!
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The Year in Review 2019 – Part 1/2
Admittedly, it was actually the other way round – we first redesigned the Ars Electronica Center and then celebrated our anniversary. Either way, our year 2019 was quite eventful. Part One of our retrospective therefore deals first and foremost with the first half of 2019 and how we replaced the telescope with which we have…
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Simon Mück: „Come into my world!”
“Komm in meine Welt”(en: come to my world) is a film by Simon Mück (AT) that was created at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. The young director had previously submitted several times to the Prix Ars Electronica in the category u19 – create your world – which was drawing attention to his talent.
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Helping with Artificial Intelligence?
Can Artificial Intelligence help to help refugees? Or is it the next step in evolution with which technology takes our place? These and similar questions were posed by the participants of a workshop on Artificial Intelligence that they won at the ZusammenHelfen conference at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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“Our existence may not be limited to machines”
Maja Smrekar’s “!brute_force” – also part of the human (un)limited exhibition in Beijing – deals with the relation man-dog-machine. The basic statement of the work is: Even if we need technology, our existence must not be limited to machines.
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“It’s about what people can do with technology”
The Ars Electronica Futurelab’s “ShadowGAN” project is part of the “human (un)limited” exhibition series currently on show in Beijing, Seoul and Moscow until the end of February. The focus is not on technology as such, but on the human being itself, including its weaknesses and strengths and its eternal search for a place in the…
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Adventurous Greenland at Deep Space 8K
Crashing icebergs, flowering valleys, singing whales: Greenland offers much more than “ice and snow”! Hans Thurner proves this impressively with his pictures and stories and draws a multi-layered portrait of the country and its people at Deep Space Special on November 29.
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From castles in the air to monsters – what do you see in the clouds?
About a week ago the wolken.raum moved to us at the Ars Electronica Center. The project of the Kindergarten of the Future invites our young visitors to let their imagination run wild and to consider which motifs they recognize in different cloud images.
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The Ars Electronica Salon at Matsudo International Science Art Festival
From November 16 to 17, the Ars Electronica Futurelab will be a guest at the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo, Japan with the Ars Electronica Salon, exploring the theme “Future Citizen.” We learned more about it in this interview.
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Exploring human limits
Thanks to our creativity and inventiveness, what limits have we overcome and made the supposedly impossible possible? What consequences does this have for us, for our self-image and for the importance we attach to ourselves in the world? What old and new limits do we reach despite all our successes – as individuals and as…
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Patient Bonsai
A entire tree with branches and leaves, but as small as a potted plant: a bonsai becomes the symbol of “In Vivo”, which illuminates the border region between life and death. Behind it are the two artists Ernest Wu and Jake Tan from Singapore, who are working on their interactive installation as part of the…
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“We always need artists to wake people up”
He is considered one of the most influential contemporary artists in China. On November 2, 2019, Qiu Zhijie of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, together with the Design Society and his curator colleague Martin Honzik of Ars Electronica, will open the new exhibition “40 Years of Humanizing Technology” in Shenzhen.
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40 Years of Humanizing Technology: How Technology shapes our Society
Technology as an essential human invention or as a self-runner that will overtake us in the future? The exhibition “40 Years of Humanizing Technology – Art, Technology and Society”, organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing (CAFA) and Ars Electronica, deals with the question of the antithesis between man and technology that has…
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Deep Space LIVE: Linz – From an industrial city to a cultural city
Accompany Archive Director Dr. Walter Schuster and Cornelia Daurer from the Archive of the City of Linz on a journey through time in Linz. At Deep Space LIVE on THU October 24, 2019, at 8 PM, they report on how the city has changed from the post-war period to the present day.
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Women’s Networks in Arts & Technology
Elena Robles Mateo talks about her research project to portray networks of women in media art since the 1990s, and in her work has referred to the Women in Media Arts database of Ars Electronica, among others.
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Co-creation materials on SDGs and digital futures tested at European Researchers Night
Ars Electronica Research Institute knowledge for humanity hub (k4h+) in collaboration with exploration space (at) ACDH (at) the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Social City Vienna and Knowledge City Vienna invited to participate in an experiment at the Vienna edition of the European Researchers Night 2019.
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Future in a Nutshell: Smart Textiles
As part of the lecture series “Future in a Nutshell” organized by Ars Electronica for Greiner Technology & Innovation, Michael Haller, Professor at the Interactive Media Department of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and founder and director of the Media Interaction Lab, talks about Imperceptible Textile Interfaces.
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Tips for the “Lange Nacht der Museen” (Long Night of the Museums) at Ars Electronica Center
To help you find your way through the “Long Night of the Museums”, we have put together some tips for this event at the Ars Electronica Center – no matter if you are little or grown-up, art lover or scientist-to-be.
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The ethical Dimension of Artificial Intelligence: A Residency with Foresight
Artificial intelligence is one of the top topics of our time – it is not reserved for an intellectual elite, but reaches up to the regulars’ tables. Just as it will influence our living environment, everyone should feel compelled to have a say and participate in decisions. Best in Edinburgh and Linz!
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Nicole Grüneis: “We want to be an ‘educational partner in crime’”
Accompany Tardi through the microcosm, experiment with robots or compose one’s own music: The start of school at the Ars Electronica Center is also the kick-off for new educational programs especially for school classes.
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This was the anniversary festival!
40 years of Ars Electronica – of course it was a birthday party, as well as a meeting of pioneers and companions, remembering and looking ahead, gathering and exchanging impressions. The festival “Out of the Box – The Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution” was successful in every respect and set several records.
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Day 5: Saying quietly good-bye
Even the most eventful festival comes to an end at some point. One last, wonderful day we were able to enjoy with Music Monday – traditionally this day is all about music. A clear focus after the rich program of the last days. By saying goodbye to the festival, Ars Electronica is also saying goodbye…
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Day 4: A European journey
Sunday was all about a European identity in the coming digital developments – open to the future! The Gallery Spaces show new ways of cultural marketing, while the Ars Electronica Center is dedicated to artificial intelligence. In the evening a tribute to the very first Klangwolke took place in the Donaupark.
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Day 3: Artificial Intelligence meets Music
Saturday was packed with events, talks, exhibitions, forums, conferences – it was really hard to be everywhere. A colourful hustle and bustle across the festival locations. First and foremost the St. Florian branch – the “AI x Music Festival” took place for the first time in the Monastery. You can find an overview here!
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Day 2: Between Innovation and Artificial Intelligence
Friday was all about innovation – in a whole series of discussions, panels, talks and symposia, experts from the worlds of art, science and business met and thought ahead. A brilliant highlight was the Big Concert Night, one last time in the POSTCITY Gleishalle.
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Day 1: Let the games begin! Or: The Ars Electronica Festival 2019 is now open.
Finally! “Out of the Box – the Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution” is the all-dominant theme of the coming days – Thursday at 10 a.m. sharp the gates of all Ars Electronica Festival venues opened. A small selection of what there is to experience until next Monday, September 9, is shown here.
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Day 0: Pre-Opening – ahead of our time!
Ars Electronica stands for assuming the role of a pioneer, and we are sometimes also ahead of our time when it comes to questions of procedure. After all, the pre-opening began yesterday before it all officially began today. This very first round of the festival comprised four stations and a host of exciting projects and…
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Quantum Logos – An artistic Approach to Quantum Physics
You understand nothing when it comes to quantum physics? Don’t worry, you’re not alone! The Quantum Travelers are using artistic means to get to the bottom of this difficult matter with their Deep Space project “Quantum Logos” at the Ars Electronica Festival.