Celebrate life with music, make you think with lyrics. Enjoy avant-garde pop/jazz of the collective MAMMA FATALE.
No harmful chemicals, significantly lower water consumption. Julia Moser explains how pigment bacteria are used to color clothing. (German language)
Elektro Guzzi play hypnotic techno sound with guitar, bass and drums in Deep Space 8K to the visuals of Eyup Kuş.
While the Trio Verve lets classical music sound in deep space, the visuals of Monocolor underline the musical description of a landscape.
Endless landscapes, the cycle of life and the language of trees: these artists and institutions will represent their home country of Chile at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.
A memorial concert for the victims of the Corona Pandemic. Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies perform, Cori O’lan contributes the visuals.
He not only laid the foundations of the synthesizer boom, but also pushed boundaries and influenced numerous sound artists.
Coronavirus, home office and a hacker attack. What followed was a project of increased collaboration, a dedicated conference at the Ars Electronica Festival and, for the first time, a virtual room in Mozilla Hubs. 2020 was an exciting year for the Ars Electronica archive, which is now available again in its online version, strengthened.
Well, at the beginning of 2020, even Ars Electronica had other plans for the future. At that time, even we couldn’t have imagined the uncomfortable constraints we’d all be confronted with and how quickly we had to rethink things seemingly set in stone, often completely. But first things first…
In 2020, Wolfgang Fadi Dorninger receives the City of Linz’s Art Appreciation Award in the category of Media, Product and Communication Design and defy the event-free times with a performance on December 1 in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K that will be broadcast on Home Delivery. A different kind of awards ceremony.
Music and technology, artificial intelligence and musical instruments, discussion panels and workshops. One term unites all these elements in one: The AIxMusic Festival!
Can machines create? As a key researcher and artist on the subject of Creative Intelligence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, he has been dealing with this question since many years. The algorithm is in his blood, Ali Nikrang is an expert in artificial intelligence and music.
The Open Futurelab is an interactive format that presents current works and research by the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Besides new online formats and virtual journeys, public tours through the laboratories and ateliers of the Ars Electronica Futurelab were also offered for the first time during the Ars Electronica Festival 2020.
Imagine giving up everything: Your bed, your kitchen, your bathroom, your apartment. From now on you live, eat and sleep in public space. Rebecca Merlic has been awarded the Marianne.von.Willemer.2020 Prize for Digital Media for the artistic realization of this experiment.
2020 is a truly blasted year for the art industry, as available resources were concentrated first and foremost in politics and health care to overcome the crisis. And so the ice was getting thinner and thinner for the art business, and it became clear that a new assessment of the situation was necessary – and…
As the saying goes: the best comes last! Our last Ars Electronica Festival Garden we would like to present to you on our blog is the continent of South America! Start a journey with us through the gardens of Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile!
Many of the Gardens that will be featured at the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival as a loophole to the rest of the world have already been presented on the blog. Now we’re taking a leap across the Atlantic and presenting institutions, projects, artists and visions from the North of America – more precisely, from Canada,…
The lockdown has affected us all. However, during this difficult time, artists from all areas and corners of the world had the opportunity to reflect the problems, fears and hopes in their art. The result is visible in some of our gardens. Let us take a look at the gardens of Africa and the Middle…
Human life in the uncertainty of the days: It seems impossible to understand the world in its complexity, as every action, no matter how inconspicuous, influences life on the other side of the world. The thing with the butterfly effect…
A prairie in the Wild West, a futuristic pirate island on the ocean, people dancing at Burning Man – what images emerge in front of your inner eye when you hear THE WILD STATE?
And our festival journey continues! Not too far away from Austria there are countless exciting exhibitions: in the city of love – Paris, the coastal city – Liepāja, the ancient metropolis – Athens, or the central heart of the EU – Brussels! Welcome to the gardens of Europe!
Part 2 of our trip around the world, during which we’d like to introduce you to some of the Ars Electronica Gardens and their programs, takes us to the east, towards the rising sun: It’s off to Asia!
A breathtaking piano piece, a virtual and real performance or a journey back to Roman times, this year’s Deep Space 8K festival program offers all this and much more. Let’s take a closer look into it!
For over three decades, the Prix Ars Electronica has been one of the world’s most coveted awards for digital media art. With the CyberArts exhibition, the OK, as part of the newly founded OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, will once again devote itself to the award-winning works of international artists during the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival in…
Welcome to the other side of the “Pacific Ocean” and the second part of our journey around the world! Welcome to the “New World”, more precisely on the west coast of the USA, in the 70 kilometre long and 30 kilometre wide Santa Clara Valley. Don’t you know it? Yes, but under a different name…
Ars Electronica has a long-term and intensive relationship with the other end of the world. Not only do employees, researchers and friends from there keep coming back to the company and the network, a ” satellite office ” has even been established – Ars Electronica Australia. Here as there, the vision is to support the…
The starting point: Kepler’s Garden in Linz, Austria. The destinations: 120 locations around the globe. The duration of the journey: 9 to 13 September 2020.
In response to the global pandemic and its impact, the leading new media arts festival Ars Electronica will premiere a dual format for its 2020 edition, including an online showcase in addition to the physical event. Ars Electronica has partnered with .art Domains to inaugurate Ars Electronica .ART Gallery, one of the online arms of…