Artists, Creators, Engineers
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On four wheels into the future?
BMW, Supersense and Ars Electronica Futurelab focused on the automobile in the midst of the climate and energy crisis.
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Directors Talk: Facing crises creatively
How can creativity and art help society face crises in a resilient way? The Ars Electronica Futurelab is looking for answers.
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Controlled / Uncontrolled: when dancing to chaos
Can you dance uncontrollably to electronic music? And can you follow the rhythm after a while to bring yourself back under control? un ctrl knows!
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The queen of the skies
With “Songs for Amelia Earhart,” Laurie Anderson and Dennis Russell Davies, together with the Brno Filharmonic Orchestra and cellist Rubin Kodheli, pay tribute to the pioneer of the skies and tell of her last flight around the world.
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Futurelab Day: Creative Resilience for Planet B
With workshops, discussions, guided tours and spectacular experiences, we want to shape the future together on September 8!
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“We’ve got to do something!”
Ars Electronica has set itself the goal of taking its social responsibility seriously. One expression of this is the create your world program.
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Art from Asia: The 4th VH Award
International art and diversity are one of the many key aspects of the Ars Electronica Festival. A project that showcases these components in Linz is the 4th edition of the VH Award.
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Expedition into the realm of ideas
From climate change to microbiology and artificial intelligence: the most experimental ideas from the Ars Electronica Futurelab will once again be presented at this year’s festival.
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Campus Exhibitions: Young Creation and International Perspectives
In collaboration with international academic institutions, the Campus exhibitions of the University of Art and Design Linz will once again become a platform for media art and experimental approaches.
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Festival University 2022: Future Takes Place in Linz
With literally red-hot topics, young visions and a public simulative trial, Festival University wants to take a step towards the future again this year.
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Von Schwarzen Schwänen …
… or pink doves? The Ars Electronica Festival’s Kunstunicampus attempts to think the seemingly impossible, to vision the unthinkable. Above all, the aim is to enable images and metaphors that carry a creative power within them and inspire us to create our own picture of our world.
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Laurie Anderson: Creating, Evolving, Experiencing
What characterizes a “Pioneer of Media Art”? Laurie Anderson connects art with technology and opens new musical paths with her inventions.
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Cyber Arts 2022: The best media artworks of the year
This year, for the first time, the Cyber Arts exhibition brings together the year’s best Prix Ars Electronica award-winning art projects in the KEPLER’S GARDENS on the campus of Johannes Kepler University Linz.
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Tools to Confront Unbalanced Realities
What rights do you have in the location of your residence? In his work, artist Irakli Sabekia deals with the spatial and social memory of people who have been forcefully displaced.
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HOW (D)ARE YOU? – The create your world-Festival 2022
The create your world festival 2022 brings a colorful mix of projects and invites to research, experiment and discuss together.
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When Herbert W. Franke brought art and science together
With his multiple roles as scientist, author of science fiction novels and specialist for computer graphics, he gave a momentous impulse for many other media art festivals as co-founder of the first Ars Electronica in 1979. Herbert W. Franke passed away at the age of 95 on July 16, 2022.
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How to “resist like bacteria”
Find out what we can learn from bacteria and why the future lies in collaborative resistance through the artists behind the project “Bi0film.net – Resist like Bacteria”.
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The black blanket: Art and Depression
With the project “The Black Blanket”, Linz based artist Mary Mayrhofer artistically processes her depression and received the Golden Nica in the category “u19 – create your world” for it.
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Klasse! Lernen. 2022: These are the best projects
The Austria-wide education award “Klasse! Lernen” honors pupils and teachers who integrate digital tools creatively and sustainably into the classroom. We took a closer look at the main prize and the two Awards of Distinction.
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Is this a man’s world? Acknowledging gender bias in AI
Artificial Intelligence is fast becoming a major driving force of the rapidly accelerating digital transformation. Therefore, we have the responsibility to confront and question the gender biases inherent in AI models and seek ways to mitigate them.
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Holly+: Come and sing like Holly Herndon!
“It takes a village to create something special” and Holly Herndon and her team have succeeded in doing just that. In the interview, she presents her machine learning project in more detail, for which she has now received the European Commission’s STARTS Prize 2022.
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Interactive and time-based: Deep Space as a platform for young artists
The bachelor’s program “Time-based and Interactive Media Arts” at the Linz University of the Arts lets young artists develop their own interactive program for Deep Space 8K.
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Throwback: SoundLab
The SoundLab at the Ars Electronica Center offered professional equipment for capturing and producing noise, sound and music.
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The Prix-Jury-Weekend 2022
Once again, 20 experts from around the world met in Linz to agree on the Golden Nicas of the Prix Ars Electronica 2022
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The Woman on the Picture
Gustav Klimt and Rebecca Merlic placed the image of the woman at the centre of their artistic work – an analysis.
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Swarm robotics up close
Drones merging to a digital canvas or painting with light: An Ars Electronica Futurelab workshop showcased the art of swarm robotics.
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Merlic meets Klimt – the image of women then and now
On April 28, 2022, Gustav Klimt’s images of women will be in the spotlight. In this article, Franz Smola and Rebecca Merlic give you an insight into the topic of images of women.
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Crushed fruit and jumping dogs: TIME OUT .10
Two years late, TIME OUT is entering its next round. Students from the Linz Art University’s “Time-Based and Interactive Media Arts” program are showing selected works at the Ars Electronica Center.