Art
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The Kepler Hall hosts the STARTS Prize 2020
The festival takes place! Not despite, but because of Corona. For months a global pandemic has been raising questions that we hadn’t asked ourselves before – but which will most likely keep us busy for a long time to come.
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„A Place Where You Can Lose Yourself“
Ars Electronica 2020 is a journey to measure the ‘new’ world and a journey through “Kepler’s Gardens”, which are located in Linz at the JKU Campus and at 120 other locations worldwide. We introduce you to the Garden Linz in more detail.
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A Slightly Different Jury Weekend
The 2020 jury weekend was not spared from the corona virus: the winners of the STARTS Prize and the Prix Ars Electronica were selected digitally this year instead of during an analogue meeting in Linz.
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“We have to drastically rethink this jury meeting”
Every year an international jury of experts travels to Linz to jointly select the Golden Nicas of Media Art in intense discussions lasting several days. For the first time in the history of Prix Ars Electronica, the jurors will meet from their home offices.
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Women in Media Arts: Does AI think like a (white) man?
“Women in Media Arts” is an Ars Electronica database specifically dedicated to women in media arts. In this series, we introduce you to female media artists and their work, starting with the question: Does AI think like a (White) man?
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The Museum Never Sleeps
The Ars Electronica Center may be closed at the moment, but it’s not abandoned. We accompanied a colleague during his work at the Museum of the Future, saw a robot from the inside and learned how 3D printing can help in the corona crisis.
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The Big Ars Electronica AI Glossary
Everyone talks about Artificial Intelligence (AI) – but what exactly is it? This glossary shows and explains the most important terms of the world of AI and connects them with examples from the Ars Electronica Center.
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All the best, Hannes!
At the end of the 1970s, Hannes Leopoldseder set out to create a festival for art, technology and society. Today, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, we look back on four decades of digital change with excerpts from his texts and historical photos of the co-founder of Ars Electronica.
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AI isn’t Artificial but Human
Our world is becoming more and more entangled. Financial markets where bots trade endlessly with other bots, social media algorithms that control what narrative we follow, deep fakes that make us doubt even our own senses. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find out where human influence lies in the process of AI.
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The Prix Ars Electronica Jury 2020: Digital Communities
Joint action and the digital exchange of information are right at the heart of the “Digital Communities” – one of the four categories of the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. We present this year’s jury.
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The Prix Ars Electronica Jury 2020: Computer Animation
Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has awarded a Golden Nica in the Computer Animation category every year. This is the jury that will decide on the best animation in 2020.
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Connecting Minds, Creating the Future
It is a sonorous theme under which the World Expo in Dubai will start in October 2020. The idea behind it: Building partnerships and inspiring ideas that will shape the world of tomorrow. Because we all have the power to shape the future.
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The 2020 STARTS Prize Jury
Every year a jury meets to examine and evaluate the submissions for the STARTS Prize. These experts have fascinating backgrounds and extraordinary fields of research, which we would like to present in the following.
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The Prix Ars Electronica Jury 2020: Interactive Art +
The jury in videos: We present to you the persons who will be deciding on the Golden Nica in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
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The Prix Universe
The Prix Ars Electronica is the most traditional media art competition in the world. The winners will receive the coveted Golden Nicas, prize money up to 10,000 euros per category and a presentation at the prestigious Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
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All connected, all affected
Shaun Hu’s works explore the relationship between humans and nature in the digital age. “Internet of Everything: All Connections” – currently part of the “human (un)limited” exhibition in Beijing – shows how everything around us is not only connected but also affected.
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Smart Home – Sweet Home?
Digitalisation is on everyone’s mind. Artificial intelligence surrounds us in many everyday situations and moves into our most intimate living spaces. Everything is connected, we are constantly online. Is there still a life without the World Wide Web? Why shop yourself when the refrigerator can do it alone? Of the comforts and dangers of a…
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DuoSkin: Like a Second Skin
Nice metallic tattoo or modern on skin interface? Based on the aesthetics of temporary skin jewelry on skin, DuoSkin creates devices that allow users to control their mobile devices or display and store information on their skin. The project is currently part of Ars Electronica’s “human (un)limited” exhibition in Beijing.
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The Year in Review 2019 – Part 1/2
Admittedly, it was actually the other way round – we first redesigned the Ars Electronica Center and then celebrated our anniversary. Either way, our year 2019 was quite eventful. Part One of our retrospective therefore deals first and foremost with the first half of 2019 and how we replaced the telescope with which we have…
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The Ars Electronica Salon at Matsudo International Science Art Festival
From November 16 to 17, the Ars Electronica Futurelab will be a guest at the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo, Japan with the Ars Electronica Salon, exploring the theme “Future Citizen.” We learned more about it in this interview.
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Tips for the “Lange Nacht der Museen” (Long Night of the Museums) at Ars Electronica Center
To help you find your way through the “Long Night of the Museums”, we have put together some tips for this event at the Ars Electronica Center – no matter if you are little or grown-up, art lover or scientist-to-be.
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This was the anniversary festival!
40 years of Ars Electronica – of course it was a birthday party, as well as a meeting of pioneers and companions, remembering and looking ahead, gathering and exchanging impressions. The festival “Out of the Box – The Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution” was successful in every respect and set several records.
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Day 5: Saying quietly good-bye
Even the most eventful festival comes to an end at some point. One last, wonderful day we were able to enjoy with Music Monday – traditionally this day is all about music. A clear focus after the rich program of the last days. By saying goodbye to the festival, Ars Electronica is also saying goodbye…
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Day 4: A European journey
Sunday was all about a European identity in the coming digital developments – open to the future! The Gallery Spaces show new ways of cultural marketing, while the Ars Electronica Center is dedicated to artificial intelligence. In the evening a tribute to the very first Klangwolke took place in the Donaupark.
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Day 3: Artificial Intelligence meets Music
Saturday was packed with events, talks, exhibitions, forums, conferences – it was really hard to be everywhere. A colourful hustle and bustle across the festival locations. First and foremost the St. Florian branch – the “AI x Music Festival” took place for the first time in the Monastery. You can find an overview here!
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Day 2: Between Innovation and Artificial Intelligence
Friday was all about innovation – in a whole series of discussions, panels, talks and symposia, experts from the worlds of art, science and business met and thought ahead. A brilliant highlight was the Big Concert Night, one last time in the POSTCITY Gleishalle.
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Day 1: Let the games begin! Or: The Ars Electronica Festival 2019 is now open.
Finally! “Out of the Box – the Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution” is the all-dominant theme of the coming days – Thursday at 10 a.m. sharp the gates of all Ars Electronica Festival venues opened. A small selection of what there is to experience until next Monday, September 9, is shown here.
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Day 0: Pre-Opening – ahead of our time!
Ars Electronica stands for assuming the role of a pioneer, and we are sometimes also ahead of our time when it comes to questions of procedure. After all, the pre-opening began yesterday before it all officially began today. This very first round of the festival comprised four stations and a host of exciting projects and…