Exhibitions
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The Art of Knowledge Transfer
Science is complex, science is slow. Projects that do not preach data and figures but stage experiences show how it can still be made exciting.
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Can art change the world?
In 2024, Ars Electronica once again used international open calls, exciting collaborations and the festival as a stage to show how art can highlight creative solutions to the pressing issues of our time.
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The interconnected world
The new exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center, “Connected Earth”, thematizes how the smallest creatures and powerful tides interact, what changes in biodiversity mean for man-made infrastructures, and what makes the Earth so habitable for millions of species, especially in their interaction.
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Immerse yourself in the art of the wave
Since March 2024, “Planet Ocean” has been inspiring visitors to the Oberhausen Gasometer with its giant ocean projection “The Wave”. Project manager Ina Badics and her team give an insight into the challenges and inspirations that made this unique installation possible.
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A record: More than 112,000 visits to Ars Electronica 2024
Once again, the Ars Electronica Festival has shown what it is all about: creating space, time and an atmosphere in which people can exchange ideas and inspire each other.
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Experience Hope, Shape Change
Hope is not a substitute for action. Rather, it is a basis for action that we consciously choose – in the midst of cynicism, ignorance and indifference. An invitation to feel, to act, to touch and to be touched.
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STARTS 2024 Exhibition: Art as a Catalyst in the Innovation Process
How can we foster a culture in which art, science, and technology thrive as interrelated and mutually enriching methods of exploration, knowledge, and discovery? For a more sensitive and determined approach to the pressing issues of our time. Let’s embark on a journey into a world of possibilities. A world of new solutions.
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Art Thinking Lounge: A Hub for Creative Innovation
The Art Thinking Lounge is a platform for transformation through art that offers companies, artists, scientists, activists and citizens a space to explore and discuss future visions through art.
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Artistic resistance and social resilience: State of the ART(ist) 2024
State of the ART(ist) in 2024 demonstrates how art can flourish under extreme conditions and reflect social issues.
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When Science and Art Come Together: The JKU Linz at the 2024 Ars Electronica Festival
Science and art are joining forces to find innovative solutions to current crises. Eight joint projects by JKU scientists and artists will be presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
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Interdisciplinary and practice-based learning
The IT:U programme of the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 addresses societal challenges through interdisciplinary innovation, bringing together experts from a variety of fields, including technology, art, science and design, to work together on effective solutions.
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The new Ars Electronica Platform Europe
The European Platform for Digital Humanism has been relaunched as Ars Electronica Platform Europe to foster collaboration for tech-driven change through art and to advocate for healthy democracies on the continent and beyond.
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From Taiwan to Austria: Expanding artistic horizons
Projects arising from the collaboration with TAICCA and other Taiwanese partners bring AI reflection and artistic innovation to the Ars Electronica Festival.
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“Do we just look, or do we see?”
Manuela Naveau, curator of the Kunstuni Campus at the Ars Electronica Festival and university professor of Critical Data / Interface Cultures, on seeing, dreaming, celebrating and a tower on the main square in Linz.
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create your world festival: From hope to action. Between yesterday and today.
What does it really mean to shape the world? How do you find confidence in your ability to influence? What role does our mental health play in society? Who takes responsibility? Will we turn the tide?
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Exploring the world in Deep Space 8K
During the Ars Electronica Festival, numerous highlights will be presented in Deep Space 8K, promising inspiration, interaction and information.
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Prix Ars Electronica 2024: a question of the mindset
The Prix Ars Electronica exhibition is considered one of the highlights of the Ars Electronica Festival program. We were able to take a look behind the scenes and discovered some innovations as well as projects from the archive.
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Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Digital Art as a Catalyst for Change
The Animation Festival 2024 presents current and socially critical productions in the field of digital animation.
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Ars Electronica Features: Beacons of Hope from Around the World
The Ars Electronica Features combine art and technology in close collaboration with partner institutions to showcase artistic programs and perspectives from around the world that initiate change.
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Data Art in dialogue: Artistic Interactions with Technology and Society
Data art transforms complex data into interactive, aesthetic works of art. In “Pulse of the EPO”, the Berlin duo Quadrature uses patent data to explore social and cosmic boundaries.
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A Conscientious Objector’s Unconventional Art Project
Artist Tom Bogaert on investing in “sin stocks” of arms manufacturers as an act of resistance against the logic of war
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Watch the best of Futurelab 2023
Exciting and innovative, playful and informative: 2023 has marked another year of unique projects for the public by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and its partners.
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Origami for social innovation: Ori Shelter
Foldable, affordable, self-sufficient and recycled – Chiara Croci shows at the Ars Electronica Futurelab how emergency shelters can be rethought.
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Resisting the logic of war: Objection
Hacking weaponry as an act of resistance: Ars Electronica Futurelab resident Tom Bogaert examined the intersections of politics, art and propaganda.
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Exploring hidden stories behind unheard messages in Behind the Wall by Ghazal Hosseini and Hanif Haghtalab
A message on a wall, graffiti that has been hidden or censored, holds within itself a whole complexity of experiences, narratives, or statements that co-exist as possibilities. The walls in the streets are a medium for expressing oneself for those who have no access to the hegemonic ones. Furthermore, for those who fight against their…
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Between Humans and Nature: an interview with Chiaochi Chou
FOUNDING LAB student Bart Kuipers had the chance to interview Chiaochi Chou (TW) and ask her about the work Synplant that she created together with Youyang Hu (CN) and Yasuaki Kakehi (JP).
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The Transformation of Gender Binarism – FOUNDING LAB Student Interview
Mar Osés (ES) – one of the 75 FOUNDING LAB students – presenting a theoretical contextualization of the downfall of the gender system.
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Back in POSTCITY and through downtown Linz: That was the Ars Electronica Festival 2023!
Five days full of exhibitions, performances, lectures and events are behind us – in the unique location of POSTCITY and at 13 venues in downtown Linz.