Next Generation
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Fortify – Comics that Empower
12 powerful stories are being presented by MKD x nextcomic from March 18 to April 27, 2025, bringing a breath of fresh air to the city and to us at the Museum of the Future.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Disinformation, manipulation and the art of storytelling
In the fifth chapter of the FOUNDING LAB Fall Term students examine the incentives, tactics, and mechanisms of online news construction and dissemination.
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Creative and playful learning for the future
AI, robotics, programming, and more: “missimo” brings basic digital education to rural elementary schools throughout Austria.
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FOUNDING LAB Fall Term: Interdisciplinarity as a New Expertise
25 students and 21 fellows are currently testing jointly developed visions for the university of the future in Linz. The focus is on interdisciplinary and project-based work.
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TIME OUT .12 – Timebased and Interactive Media Arts meets Ars Electronica
Interactive installations, film experiments, visual & sonic arts, applications for Deep Space 8K and performances: TIME OUT .12 opens on WED 11/22/2023 with young media art from Linz.
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Kinderuni animates the facade of the center
At the Kinderuni’s ANIMATE THE FACADE workshop, young people animated their message to the city for the Ars Electronica Center’s media façade.
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Call for CanSats
Apply by Nov. 6, 2023, for ESA’s CanSat can satellite competition and get started on a fascinating space project this school year
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Discussing Truth in a Digitized World
The conferences held during the Ars Electronica Festival bring international personalities on stage to examine contemporary issues from a range of perspectives.
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IDSA x Ars Electronica FOUNDING LAB: Forging a Transdisciplinary University
Introducing the IDSA x Ars Electronica FOUNDING LAB, a collaborative project that redefines the dynamics of a pioneering university in the age of digital transformation.
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create your world between unpleasant truths and pointless dares
create your world shows, as every year, thoughts and ideas of children and young adults and offers the opportunity to experience, experiment and research.
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As an International Collective Towards the Future
In the anniversary year of the University of Arts Linz, the Campus Exhibition once again invites visitors to reflect and admire many international contributions and original, contemporary as well as inspiring works.
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Digital Innovation in Education
The Music Middle School Eggenburg wants to prepare its students for a technological future by using the latest technology.
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Silent Sound
The project “Verblassende Stimmen” encourages reflection on how to remember the voices of deceased people who were once close.
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Reimagining Human Habitats
In an interview with artist Dorotea Dolinšek, we discover the secrets of the microbiome and how our symbiotic relationship with microorganisms affects our well-being.
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Meet me later
In an era when the concept of friendship may need to be reinterpreted, the NEXTCOMIC Festival with “Meet me Meta” brings relationships to digital life.
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In digital fight for justice
Cyber tools against environmental crimes: For those who love the truth, we make digital investigation methods available at Citizen Science Days.
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Inclusive education for the future of work
The WeSTEAM project demonstrates how artistic thinking and creative skills in the fields of mathematics, computer science, science and technology lead to new ways of thinking and promote a sustainable future.
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Spot and the mobility of future generations
Finding new ideas for sustainable mobility, with AI and Boston Dynamics’ robot: A unique event in Japan included experts and families alike.
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Earth4All: It is not too late
50 years after “The Limits to Growth” Club of Rome with “Earth4All” warns about the consequences of social inequality for our planet: A Survival Guide for Humanity