Artists, Creators, Engineers
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Creative (Artificial) Intelligence
What differentiates analog from digitally generated work?
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Directors Talk – 25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab and beyond
We all shape future – constantly. In the process, we are confronted with major challenges, from the climate crisis to digital transformation.
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The connection between technology and life
“Digital && Life” is the title of this year’s theme exhibition taking place in the Kepler Gardens as part of the Ars Electronica Festival “A New Digital Deal”.
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Inside Festival 09
The ninth episode of “Inside Festival” is all about sustainability and ecology. Christl Baur and Laura Welzenbach present three projects from our Festival Gardens and give us a sneak peek into one youth perspective of “Create your World”.
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The Art of Swarms
The Spaxels were just the beginning of a long journey into the future of the Ars Electronica Futurelab
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Poetic Systems
How art can make complex structures tangible
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Festival University – Studying (in) the Future
In the course of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival, the Festival University will be organised for the first time in cooperation with the JKU.
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Computation and Beyond
How can we inspire people to actively design our common future?
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Community Project: The Experts of the Future
It often seems that we as adults shape upcoming goals and mindsets for next generations without integrating them directly and taking their imagination of the future world seriously. The future sometimes feels like a distant planet that is located far away from our world. But how does this planet look like?
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Community Project: Taste your SOIL
Art, society, technology and science sees itself expanded by a conceptuality – nature. “Taste your SOIL” stands for the urgent need of making the digital a part of our cultural identity and for restoring our lost cultural awareness of the earth.
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25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab
The past, present and future of the lab in eight episodes on Ars Electronica Home Delivery
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K’ARTS Garden: “Our work is fresh and fun”
Ars Electronica accompanied K-ARTS students for one semester. The result were eight artworks that will be shown at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Joachim Sauter on Reflections and Kinetics
To commemorate the pioneer of media art, we are showing an excerpt of the lecture he gave at the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival.
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The Voice of the Future
As part of the ArtScience Residency Program enabled by the Art Collection Telekom artist Kyriaki Goni is working on a project that focuses on the voice of digital assistants and the problem of surveillance.
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The Winners of the 2021 STARTS Prize
We present the Grand Prizes at the intersection of science, technology and art: “Remix el Barrio” and “Oceans in Transformation”.
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Textiles dyeing with Bacteria
No harmful chemicals, significantly lower water consumption. Julia Moser explains how pigment bacteria are used to color clothing. (German language)
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The Language of Virtual Realities
In a virtual world, we can simulate truths that would be unimaginable in real life, explore incredible activities, and collaborate with others in a way that goes beyond physical interaction.
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The Future Is Coded
Travel restrictions raise new challenges for cross-boundary artistic/scientific research. Residencies at the Ars Electronica Futurelab remain a source of mutual inspiration.
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Resonant Media – How 8K can affect perception and emotion
Visual media make the invisible visible; document, capture, make emotional. They capture the moment for eternity.
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Who was Isao Tomita?
He not only laid the foundations of the synthesizer boom, but also pushed boundaries and influenced numerous sound artists.
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Hannes Leopoldseder: A Life Lived for the Future
He was a co-founder of the Ars Electronica Festival, invented the Prix Ars Electronica, initiated the construction of the Ars Electronica Center and, as a longstanding member of the Supervisory Board, helped shape the development of Ars Electronica to the end. Hannes Leopoldseder passed away at the age of 80 on February 12, 2021.
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Step into Space
Wanted: Our place in the universe. Found: A team that combines humans and AI to answer fundamental questions. Sarah Petkus and Mark J. Koch aim to educate artificial intelligence to become an individual.
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Tears for the Sea
She spent most of her childhood on merchant marine vessels and has developed an ever closer relationship with nature through her proximity to the sea. During her EMAP/EMARE residency, as a media artist, Kasia Molga tells how she came to her project “How to make an Ocean?”, how personal grief and COVID-19 gave her work…
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Rebecca Merlic: Making The City Your Own
Imagine giving up everything: Your bed, your kitchen, your bathroom, your apartment. From now on you live, eat and sleep in public space. Rebecca Merlic has been awarded the Marianne.von.Willemer.2020 Prize for Digital Media for the artistic realization of this experiment.
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Of rhythms and algorithms
They promise a future full of convenience and are said to surpass us humans in every respect quite soon. Artificial intelligence is already way ahead of us in many areas of competence. Just a few years ago, we thought that it was human creativity alone that distinguished the analogue from the digitally generated work. Because…
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Get the camera ready, we’re going to Mars!
Cliff diving on comets, opulent refractions of light in the ice crystals of Saturn’s rings or the gigantic mountain worlds of Mars: Gernot Grömer, Director of the Austrian Space Forum, is probably the most unusual travel guide in the country. The destination of his journey is the solar system, first stopover the Red Planet. All…
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create your world 2020 – are you ready?
Each one of us has one or even more talents. Some talents are visible, others are hidden and have yet to be discovered. Essential for this is the talent development platform create your world.
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Strolling Between the Disciplines
The JKU campus as a place of encounter and as a place for projects that can only be discovered by strolling through the park and looking attentively into the air. JKU LIT @ Ars Electronica as well as the Garden Exhibition in Kepler’s Garden on the JKU Campus feature playful projects that combine various disciplines.