2019
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The Wandering Mind: Feel the Pulse of the Earth
Feel global environmental data, experience it with your own senses and be connected to the Blue Planet even more intensively as a human being: This is the aim of The Wandering Mind project by the artist duo slow immediate. In a few weeks their residency will start in Argentina and Austria – organized by the…
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Just for Fun? Playful learning!
Feel young again? The Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center offer adults a mental rejuvenation cure through a fresh, young approach to current topics and give children and teenagers the freedom to breathe life into Artificial Intelligence with pleasure and in the self-experiment.
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Smart security – what else?
How much (living) comfort justifies how much disclosure of personal data? How do manufacturers of intelligent products deal with customer data? How easily can devices be accessed from outside or even influenced?
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The apt noise for our disturbed existence
The Prix Ars Electronica 2019 Golden Nica in the category “Digital Musics & Sound Art” is staying in the country: for the first time, an Austrian has won the prize as a solo entrant. The Austrian composer and producer Peter Kutin studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and has written and…
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Understanding AI – or: The Nature of Data
Everything is new at the new Ars Electronica Center! From the foyer on down, there are new spaces with a new interior to marvel at. But it’s not just impressive architecture — the exhibition opens up a totally new glimpse into the future. One topic it can’t leave out is artificial intelligence, and the Understanding…
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As if it were reality: Immersify
It’s almost as if you were there: immersive media let us dive deep into images and videos – sometimes to the point where we completely forget the world around us. In order to transform this new kind of media from a niche phenomenon to a widespread practice, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and four partners from…
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Project Alias: Rediscovering the Private Sphere
With “Project Alias,” Bjørn Karmann and Tore Knudsen of Denmark demonstrated a simple yet effective way to take back control over our own private sphere, which earned them the STARTS Prize of the European Commission. We talked with both of them about privacy, parasitic fungi, and the appropriate narratives.
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STARTS PRIZE: The Interdisciplinary Future
The decision is made! Winners and Honorary Mentions for the STARTS Prize of the European Commission have been determined. The international jury for this fourth consecutive award spent days discussing, observing, paring down entries and discussing again so the prize could be granted to very special projects in two categories: “Artistic Exploration” honors works where…
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Prix Ars Electronica 2019: One Weekend, Four Golden Nicas
Every year a new jury, every year an extraordinary treasure of media artworks that want to be judged. Once again this year, 20 experts from all over the world met in Linz to agree on the Golden Nicas of the 2019 Prix Ars Electronica. A brief stroll through the jury weekend.
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Live Heart Surgery at Deep Space 8K
Mehr als 100 Besucherinnen und Besucher waren am 4. April im Deep Space des Ars Electronica Center mit dabei und konnten eine Herz-OP im Kepler Universitätsklinikum live mitverfolgen.
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Out of the Box – the Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution
40 years after the first Ars Electronica Festival, “Out of the Box – the Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution” takes us on an expedition to the artistic-scientific surveying of our modern techno-economically-influenced world. In this interview, Gerfried Stocker, the artistic director of Ars Electronica, introduces the topic that the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz…
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We (re)build for the future
Everything has to go! In 2019, everything at the Ars Electronica Center will be new. Once again, Ars Electronica is leaving the comfort zone with a large-scale architectural and thematic reconstruction of the exhibition, “tearing (almost) everything down”…
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Nadav Hochman: “Involve Artists in the Technology Development Stage”
The submission deadline of the European Commission’s STARTS Prize 2019 is March 11! Nadav Hochman, co-founder of the Tech + Arts Initiative at the Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley, is one of the jurors of this competition and talks in an interview about the connections between science, technology and art.
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2019 Prix Ars Electronica: The Jury
We have extended the submission deadline for the Prix Ars Electronica to March 11, 2019! In the meantime, we will introduce the jurors with various video interviews that will decide who will receive the Golden Nicas 2019.
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Şerife Wong: “I’d really like to see truly interconnected artists and scientists teams”
Submissions for the European Commission’s STARTS Prize will be accepted until March 11th, 2019. The artist Şerife Wong, one of this year’s jurors, talks about where she sees similarities between science, technology and the arts and explains to us – in her role as an ethics consultant – how we can deal with artificial intelligence…
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netidee: Three Projects, three Motivations, three Fundings
Until March 18, 2019, the netidee Special Prize will be looking for projects in the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category that is designed to take the Internet a step further. We picked out three projects from Austria funded by the Internet Private Foundation Austria and asked around how the development of…
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10 years since the major renovation: Ars Electronica Center
It was exactly 10 years ago that the Ars Electronica Center was first renovated and expanded. The small two-story building next to the Danube became the Museum of the Future that we now know – including new, large exhibition areas in the basement. Now everything in the Ars Electronica Center is going to be completely…
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School of the Future Festival: GiriGiri
The first ever School of the Future Festival by Ars Electronica will take place at Tokyo Midtown February 21 to 24, 2019. The theme is GiriGiri – find out what this means and which exhibitions, performances, and talk sessions to look forward to in this interview.
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Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience: A fascinating Cocktail for a Residency
The newly founded European ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers an exciting residency in Argentina and Austria for artists working in the fields of artificial intelligence and neuroscience. Mariano Sardon from Muntref Centro de Arte y Ciencia tells us more in this interview.
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“ERROR – The Art of Imperfection” in Berlin
Ars Electronica goes Berlin – for the seventh time in a row! The latest exhibition at DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum is on until March 3, 2019, showing artistic projects that grapple with the theme “ERROR – The Art of Imperfection.”
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OPEN CALL: Creating sustainable cities, using digital technologies
Until February 15, 2019, the PRIX BLOXHUB INTERACTIVE open call is asking architects, engineers and creatives from around the world to submit their ideas and projects about how to use digital technologies to create more sustainable cities. In this interview, founder Liselott Stenfeldt tells us about the newly founded initiative and the submission details.
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Prix Ars Electronica 2019: Artificial Intelligence & Life Art
The submission phase for this year’s Prix Ars Electronica ends on March 11, 2019! We took this opportunity to take a closer look at the new “Artificial Intelligence & Life Art” category.
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“We need to upscale”: How architecture, behavior and technology blend
How can we make cities more livable and sustainable using digital technology? This is the question raised by the PRIX BLOXHUB INTERACTIVE open call, a new cooperation between BLOXHUB, the Alexandra Institute and Ars Electronica. Find out more in this interview.