Art
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AI, Music and the Change of the Audience
Hugues Vinet, head of research activities at IRCAM, told us in an interview how the world’s largest research centre dedicated to both musical expression and scientific research works, why AI has social relevance and what role he and his team will play at the festival.
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The best festival tips for: Linzers and Companions
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for Linzers and Companions.
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Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you
In the course of history, especially in Western culture, human has moved further and further away from nature. In language, too, there is a demarcation to the environment, although human as a living being is actually part of it. With their project “Trans*Plant”, the artist group Quimera Rosa wants to draw attention to this strange…
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Creating the Future: 40 Years of Ars Electronica as a Book
In “Creating the Future” Andreas J. Hirsch tells the story of 40 years of Ars Electronica, invites key figures to speak and outlines the significance of the institution since it was founded in 1979.
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Mahler-Unfinished: When man and machine make music
At the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival, the tenth symphony by Gustav Mahler will be performed at the Big Concert Night (FRI, Sept. 6). Why this is extraordinary? The composer never finished it – together with an artificially intelligent algorithm, Ali Nikrang, Key Researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, has now completed the piece. In an…
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The best festival tips for: Music Lovers
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for music lovers.
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The best festival tips for: Activists
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for activists.
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The best festival tips for: Art Enthusiasts
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for art enthusiasts.
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Gallery Spaces 2019: “Contemporary Art is Media Art”
For the third time in 2019, the Gallery Spaces Program will bring numerous international galleries and collections with their different positions on digital art to the Ars Electronica Festival, September 5-9. With its ongoing work and experience in the production and presentation of media art and digital art, Ars Electronica is the ideal environment for…
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The infinite spaces of the POSTCITY
One last time the Ars Electronica Festival takes place in the POSTCITY. One last time, the festival takes over new spaces and locations in this abandoned postal distribution center. Martin Honzik explains what’s new this year.
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Kalina Bertin: “ManicVR was part of a deeply healing process”
Kalina Bertin, filmmaker and director of ManicVR, invites us to join her on a journey into the “inner worlds” of her siblings who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In 2019, she was awarded the Golden Nica in the Computer Animation category for her work.
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The last Big Concert Night in POSTCITY
It is the prelude to the first ever “AIxMusic Festival” and at the same time one of the last concerts to take place at POSTCITY Linz during the Ars Electronica Festival. We talked to Norbert Trawöger, the artistic director of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, and Gerfried Stocker, the artistic director of Ars Electronica, about this…
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With OK│CyberArts 2019 on the pulse of time
Every year, the OK im OÖ Kulturquartier exhibition takes on its role as a visionary observatory and uses international media art projects that received awards at the 2019 Prix Ars Electronica to showcase the trends and current developments of our time.
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Futuristic sounds, danceable pop and a pinch of humor: The Ars Electronica Nightline 2019
Ars Electronica Nightline is an annual highlight of the Ars Electronica Festival program not only for the dance-lovers. The train hall of POSTCITY hosts this late Friday lineup of media art, electronic music and performances.
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Volkmar Klien: Total Optimization and Defiance – About artificial intelligence and musical composition
Volkmar Klien, co-curator of the AIxMusic Festival as well as of the Sonic Saturday at the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival, on the relationship between AI and music.
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Human Limitations – Limited Humanity: The Possibility of Going Beyond Borders
At the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival, artists from all over the world fill the POSTCITY bunker with media art. This year’s projects will be exploring the question of human limitations with different approaches.
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From Chile to the Ars Electronica Festival
After a successful debut at last year’s Ars Electronica Festival, they will be back again this year: Selected media artworks by Chilean artists are again part of an extensive program of guest projects to be shown in Linz from September 5 to 9, 2019.
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Understanding AI – a place to experience artificial intelligence
For the new exhibition “Understanding AI” at the Ars Electronica Center, a team of researchers, artists, and developers from Ars Electronica Futurelab designed installations that explain how artificial intelligence actually works. Learn more about it in this interview.
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“Ars and the City”: In the City, with the City, for the City
What has Ars Electronica done in the city, with the city and for the city? The exhibition “Ars and the City” at the LENTOS Kunstmuseum will explore these questions during the festival on the occasion of this year’s 40th anniversary of Ars Electronica.
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AI x Music Festival: A look ahead
Music is probably the most emotional art form of all. If we observe people talking about music, recalling their experiences and memories, a difference to their usual style quickly becomes apparent. They touch their hearts, lower their voices, look inside, let their emotions run free. Music is an art form that expresses our feelings in…
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“The PERI elements are like Lego”
To build an 80,000 square metre abandoned industrial area with structures that enable media art. The architects Jürgen Haller and Christoph Weidinger are once again taking on this seemingly unsolvable task this year at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019 in POSTCITY.
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Gender, Virtual Reality and playfulness at the Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2019
The best of 835 Prix Ars Electronica submissions in the Computer Animation category will be presented at the Ars Electronica Animation Festival. In an interview, curator and director Jürgen Hagler talks about what visitors will be able to expect this year, what trends the industry is currently experiencing and what he personally looks forward to…
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“Today they would be called programmers”
Since June 25, the Ars Electronica Center has been hosting the new “AI X Music” exhibition, which deals with the interaction between artificial intelligence and music as well as the encounter between human creativity and technical perfection. In this interview, Marianne Kneidinger and Gertraud Koblmiller from the Mechanische Klangfabrik Haslach explain the role played by…
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“What does exploitation smell like?”
Sweat and work are inseparably linked in Paul Vanouse’s installation LABOR. In an interview, the winner of the Golden Nica explained to us how odours develop and why he recreates this process in the laboratory.
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“Technology is nothing without the human intention behind it”
Claire B, one of the two artists behind the exhibition Mirages & miracles, talks in this interview about technologies, stones, poetics and the relationship between these elements. The new exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center opened on June 25 and continues until March 2020.
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Gaming meets racing: Rotax MAX Dome
In the old slaughterhouse in Linz, e-carts will be making their rounds in the new Rotax MAX Dome from today on – on a racetrack that offers not only sharp bends but also games, virtual worlds and digital technologies. What does the Ars Electronica Futurelab have to do with it? That’s what we found out…
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The Wandering Mind: Feel the Pulse of the Earth
Feel global environmental data, experience it with your own senses and be connected to the Blue Planet even more intensively as a human being: This is the aim of The Wandering Mind project by the artist duo slow immediate. In a few weeks their residency will start in Argentina and Austria – organized by the…
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The apt noise for our disturbed existence
The Prix Ars Electronica 2019 Golden Nica in the category “Digital Musics & Sound Art” is staying in the country: for the first time, an Austrian has won the prize as a solo entrant. The Austrian composer and producer Peter Kutin studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and has written and…