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  • Who needs art in times like these?

    Who needs art in times like these?

    Amid global crises and radical upheavals, the Ars Electronica Festival asks what role art can play—as a catalyst for new perspectives, as a space for reflection, and as a driving force for a collectively shaped future.

  • Cutting Edge: Running against the virtual wall

    Cutting Edge: Running against the virtual wall

    In “Run Motherfucker Run,” the body becomes the controller: those who run experience virtual immersion—those who stop fall. A powerful critique of passive consumption in digital worlds.

  • A Robot’s Liberation

    A Robot’s Liberation

    Guanaquerx by Paula Gaetano Adi, winner in the Artificial Life & Intelligence category 2025, reclaims the Andes as a site of resistance and reimagines robotics as a tool for planetary liberation.

  • Words as Weapons

    Words as Weapons

    Requiem for an Exit by Frode Oldereid and Thomas Kvam, winner of a 2025 Golden Nica, explores memory, violence, rhetoric, and the unsettling voice of a machine.

  • Sound as a living process

    Sound as a living process

    This year’s Golden Nica in the category “Digital Musics & Sound Art” goes to media artist Navid Navab and Garnet Willis for their project “Organism.”

  • Algorithm meets Goat Cheese

    Algorithm meets Goat Cheese

    „Das Ziegenkäsemachen aus der Sicht der Ziege“ (Goat Cheese Making from the Perspective of the Goat) reveals the digital overload, the dependency on algorithms, and the longing for liberation. It is a film that understands art as a radical scream against mindless, endless media consumption and indifference. 

  • A space with endless possibilities

    A space with endless possibilities

    SHARESPACE explores new forms of collaboration between people, avatars, and AI in hybrid spaces. The focus is on connection, participation, and creative interaction, accompanied artistically by Ars Electronica Futurelab. One space, infinite possibilities.

  • Cutting Edge: Hands-on drone art

    Cutting Edge: Hands-on drone art

    In this issue, Horst Hörtner presents a project that shows how art, technology, and participation can come together: the Klangwolke 2012, in which swarms of drones were used for the first time and thousands of people became part of the production.

  • Art in the Quantum Age

    Art in the Quantum Age

    The LAS Art Foundation’s Sensing Quantum project has been awarded the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration for its groundbreaking work in developing new pathways into quantum technology through immersive experiences and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Ars Electronica Festival 2025

  • Who needs art in times like these?

    Who needs art in times like these?

    Amid global crises and radical upheavals, the Ars Electronica Festival asks what role art can play—as a catalyst for new perspectives, as a space for reflection, and as a driving force for a collectively shaped future.

  • A Robot’s Liberation

    A Robot’s Liberation

    Guanaquerx by Paula Gaetano Adi, winner in the Artificial Life & Intelligence category 2025, reclaims the Andes as a site of resistance and reimagines robotics as a tool for planetary liberation.

  • Words as Weapons

    Words as Weapons

    Requiem for an Exit by Frode Oldereid and Thomas Kvam, winner of a 2025 Golden Nica, explores memory, violence, rhetoric, and the unsettling voice of a machine.

  • Sound as a living process

    Sound as a living process

    This year’s Golden Nica in the category “Digital Musics & Sound Art” goes to media artist Navid Navab and Garnet Willis for their project “Organism.”

  • Algorithm meets Goat Cheese

    Algorithm meets Goat Cheese

    „Das Ziegenkäsemachen aus der Sicht der Ziege“ (Goat Cheese Making from the Perspective of the Goat) reveals the digital overload, the dependency on algorithms, and the longing for liberation. It is a film that understands art as a radical scream against mindless, endless media consumption and indifference. 

  • Stories of self-determination

    Stories of self-determination

    The HEROINES project shows how citizens can help shape social change through research. In 2025, it was awarded the European Union Prize for Citizen Science.

Focus: Artificial Intelligence

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