2021
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Day 0: Pre-Opening – Here we go!
“A New Digital Deal” is the title of the 2021 Ars Electronica Festival, and it’s intended to propagate a new way of meeting challenges. As a platform for art, technology and society, we want to provide impulses, pose questions, explore paths and get right down to implementing them.
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Art Thinking
There are difficult questions waiting for creative answers
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Humanity and Robotinity
A society that is changing along with its technology needs a new form of humanity
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Prix 2021: Students create their own world
School at home, no meetings with friends, long periods of being alone – the side effects of the pandemic, which is now in its second year, have hit the young generation especially hard in their important stages of life.
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Deep Space 8K: Festival Highlights
It’s time again to introduce you to the spectacular Deep Space 8K festival program! Whether it’s visionary ideas for the future or artistic visualizations on the big screen, there’s something for everyone.
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Inside Festival 13
The thirteenth and final edition of “Inside Festival” allows you a sneak peek behind-the-scenes of the festival preparations
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Throwback: The new generation
In 1998 a new category was introduced at the Prix Ars Electronica – “Cybergeneration U19”.
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Alchemists of the Future — The Book
25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab: It’s a year full of memories — of stories and concepts, of successes and challenges. Of visions, ideas and utopias.
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Creative (Artificial) Intelligence
What differentiates analog from digitally generated work?
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Directors Talk – 25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab and beyond
We all shape future – constantly. In the process, we are confronted with major challenges, from the climate crisis to digital transformation.
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Nocturne 2021: the Pandemic on big screen.
An extraordinary artwork, created in an extraordinary period. Nocturne brings the time of the Pandemic in the Deep Space 8K.
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Inside Festival 12
In the twelfth edition of “Inside Festival”, Christl Baur and Manuela Hillmann will introduce five festival projects that are dedicated to a call for action.
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STARTS Prize 2021: New products from food scraps
720 tons of food are thrown away in a single day in Catalonia. It is figures like these that have prompted Anastasia Pistofidou, Marion Real and The Remixers of Fab Lab Barcelona, IaaC, to take action.
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Digital Democracy: How democratic is the Internet?
Is democracy digital and how democratic is the digital? We have put together a collection of festival projects on the topic of “Digital Democracy”!
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Man, machine and trust
Trust is one of those things. With a bit of luck, we gather more good than bad experiences, fall back into a – trusted – network when we stumble, and can face new experiences positively and without any worries.
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“Rethinking GUERNICA” inside Deep Space 8K
For the first time, Pablo Picasso will visit us at the Ars Electronica Center. His work “Guernica” will be presented in Deep Space 8K at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival, and Michaela Wimplinger tells us how it was made possible.
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Inside Festival 11
Christl Baur and Hortense Boulais-Ifrène dedicate the eleventh edition of Inside Festival to the topic of “Community” and present a total of four projects that address the topic from different perspectives.
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Prix 2021: “When the Sea sends Forth a Forest” Animation-Film remembers mass murder
There are hardly any pictures from that time. It has been over 40 years since Khmer Rouge supporters in Cambodia tried with full force to impose their ideology in the country, wiping out the lives of millions of people.
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Throwback: The temporary museum
While the new Ars Electronica Center was built on the northern bank of the Danube, the museum made a guest appearance in downtown Linz until the end of 2008.
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Images of fear and glimmers of hope – new technology is possible
A wide variety of projects at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival on the theme of “Another Tech is possible” demonstrate how new technologies and inventions can help us to deal with challenges in the future.
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Inside Festival 10
Veronika Liebl and Andrew Newman dedicate the tenth edition of Inside Festival to the topic of “Data/ Storage of our data” and present a total of five projects that address the topic from different perspectives.
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The connection between technology and life
“Digital && Life” is the title of this year’s theme exhibition taking place in the Kepler Gardens as part of the Ars Electronica Festival “A New Digital Deal”.
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Inside Festival 09
The ninth episode of “Inside Festival” is all about sustainability and ecology. Christl Baur and Laura Welzenbach present three projects from our Festival Gardens and give us a sneak peek into one youth perspective of “Create your World”.
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LOOPS OF WISDOM: an artistic guide to action
Exhibitions, presentations, performances, interventions, workshops and lab settings as well as a discursive platform: LOOPS OF WISDOM, the exhibition of the Linz University of Art and Design in the course of the Ars Electronica Festival, is actually much more than that.
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Volunteer Fair Upper Austria meets Ars Electronica
FEST.ENGAGIERT will take place in the course of the Ars Electronica Festival for the first time in 2021. This collaboration is based on the belief in change, the belief in a “New Digital Deal.
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STARTS Prize 2021: The condition of the oceans and how high the stakes are
The world’s oceans not only reflect light, they also reflect the effects of the Anthropocene, the age of humankind.
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Some people think Alexa and Siri only listen when they’re supposed to…
…others go to Ars Electronica. Public space/privacy – how do they intertwine and can we trust promises about privacy? This core theme is also represented in the form of festival projects.
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The Future of Work
What could work look like in the future? And how can we work together on the future to make it as fair as possible for everyone?