2021
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Festival Locations 2021: Watch out – Festival ahead!
We’re 36 days away from the start of the Ars Electronica Festival 2021. Preparations are in full swing, the festival team is in constant communication with partners, projects are being fleshed out, plans are being finalized.
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Community Project: Taste your SOIL
Art, society, technology and science sees itself expanded by a conceptuality – nature. “Taste your SOIL” stands for the urgent need of making the digital a part of our cultural identity and for restoring our lost cultural awareness of the earth.
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Virtual Worlds
Innovative concepts for hybrid environments
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Inside Festival Playlist
With “Inside Festival” we want to share our excitement about the upcoming festival with you! Live from our streaming studio in Linz we will give you a sneak-peek of our partner gardens’ program as well as our local events in Linz.
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Inside Festival 03
Veronika Liebl and Kristina Maurer dedicate the third episode to the topic of water ecology.
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Throwback: The CAVE
In 1996, the CAVE, a room in which you can fly through the air, was created in the recently opened Ars Electronica Center.
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Inside Festival 02
In the second session of “Inside Festival”, Christl Baur and Manuela Hillmann will address the topic of “Soil” that connects us all.
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Digital Humanism: Art as driver for human-centred innovation
Digital technology spills into and shapes all aspects of our lives, from the way we inhabit both digital and physical spaces, the ways in which we interact and communicate with others, to the ways we work and plan our lives.
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25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab
The past, present and future of the lab in eight episodes on Ars Electronica Home Delivery
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Throwback: The first Prix Gala
In 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica was announced for the first time.
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K’ARTS Garden: “Our work is fresh and fun”
Ars Electronica accompanied K-ARTS students for one semester. The result were eight artworks that will be shown at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Why trust robots?
When humans and robots work side by side, it’s not always easy.
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Throwback: The new Ars Electronica Center
On the occasion of the Capital of Culture Year 2009, the Ars Electronica Center was remodeled and expanded.
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Joachim Sauter on Reflections and Kinetics
To commemorate the pioneer of media art, we are showing an excerpt of the lecture he gave at the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival.
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Classical Music: Composed by AI, Played by Humans
It sounds paradoxical, but what would happen if artificial intelligence writes the notes for us and we only take on the role of musicians?
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Inside Festival: A New Digital Deal
What exactly is meant by the theme of the 2021 Ars Electronica Festival? When we talk about “deal,” do commercial interests really take precedence over everything?
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Artificial intelligence as a meta-researcher
An international collective experimenting between art and science. A multidisciplinary educational organization to explore the origin and nature of life in the universe and the evolution of intelligence. The beginning of a wonderful friendship.
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Joachim Sauter (1959 – 2021)
On the passing of Joachim Sauter, pioneer of media art.
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“The wheel is spinning again!”
A New Digital Deal – 2021 kicks off the beginning of the doing. A first preview of the Ars Electronica Festival.
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He lets mini-robots make music
An interview with this year’s EMAP Residency Artist: Moritz Simon Geist!
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The Voice of the Future
As part of the ArtScience Residency Program enabled by the Art Collection Telekom artist Kyriaki Goni is working on a project that focuses on the voice of digital assistants and the problem of surveillance.
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The Winners of the 2021 STARTS Prize
We present the Grand Prizes at the intersection of science, technology and art: “Remix el Barrio” and “Oceans in Transformation”.
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Humans, robots and the future of work
We’ve pinned our hopes for the future on them, but also regard them with suspicion: Robots will soon be part of our daily lives.
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The Return of the Samurai
How does one come to collect samurai art? And how can art-historical artifacts be presented in a modern way? (German language)
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How Digitization Moves Mountains
If we use smartphones for an average of only two years, then the resulting mining of raw materials should give us pause for thought. (German language)
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The World is not Enough
We humans have left traces on this blue planet – in the water, on the earth, in the air, but also in outer space.
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Which stars show up in our summer sky?
Star photographer Dietmar Hager takes us on a journey through the summer starry sky – as seen from Austria. (German language)
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The Futurelab in Focus
For the 25th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, filming is currently taking place in Deep Space 8K.