Artists, Creators, Engineers
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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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Ars Electronica Festival: A stage for music & experiments
Music is a central component of the Ars Electronica Festival. From September 4 to 8, visitors can expect a diverse program ranging from classical to digital music
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From Hope to Action
This year’s theme symposium will focus on people who inspire others through their creativity, empathy and courage, and who create hope for a better future.
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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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How the Ars Electronica Archive Reflects the Development of Artificial Intelligence
What do an archive of media art and the history of AI have in common? And can these histories perhaps be intertwined in order to gain a better insight into what has fascinated and preoccupied people at different times with the idea of “artificial intelligence”?
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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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A Festival for Artists
What is the role of art festivals like Ars Electronica? What do they have to do and for whom? For good reason, the vast majority of answers to these questions focus on the audience. However, another key target group is often overlooked: the artists themselves.
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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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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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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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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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New Sounds from Switzerland: The Ars Electronica Nightline
In 2024, Ars Electronica Nightline will focus on innovative club music from Switzerland and offer a unique platform for Swiss artists.
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Bridging past, present and future: media art from Latin America
Artists honoured with the CIFO x Ars Electronica Award address environmental problems and present innovative projects.
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Preserving Heritage in the Digital Age
The Balot NFT democratizes digital cultural ownership and aids in reclaiming stolen land, using NFT technology as a decolonization tool in a new restitution model.
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From Industrialization to Automation
“Calculating Empires” traces the entwining of technology and power over five centuries, showing how colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure operate today and might be unwound.
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Artistic Explorations in Science
Arts at CERN, the arts programme of CERN in Geneva, has invited artists since 2012 to explore fundamental scientific questions alongside physicists.
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A Story of Arrangement
“You are part of a huge weave, that you cannot ignore anymore.” When you enter Diane Cescutti’s website and her work, you enter the world of weaving.
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From Blue Marble to Bioplastic Record
“Smoke and Mirrors” by British artist Beatie Wolfe visualises 50 years of climate data and contrasts it with advertising slogans from the oil industry. She has now been awarded the Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica for her work.
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Art in the Storm of Flight
The project ‘Fluten der Freiheit’ highlights the moving and often life-threatening journey of refugees across the sea, bringing to life their risks and hopes in search of a better life.
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Taking Back Power: Patchwork Girl
The winner of the Digital Humanity Award sets an example against online exploitation and for women’s rights in the digital age.
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Fostering Plant Diversity Through Community Participation
The INCREASE project helps protect plant genetic resources by involving citizens in growing and tracking different types of beans, which boosts biodiversity and supports sustainable farming.
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“Waltz Symphony”: Of humans and machines
Artificial intelligence and classical music merge seamlessly in the Waltz Symphony project. Composition students develop innovative orchestral pieces in dialogue with the AI application Ricercar.
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Beacons of hope in a changing world
Under the title HOPE, the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 will focus on the people who give us cause for optimism.
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Rethinking clothing with knitting, origami, and Magic Girls
Material research meets design: Lingxiao Luo shows how programmable, sustainable clothing interacts with its wearers.
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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