Artists, Creators, Engineers
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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.
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“When innovation meets sustainability”
Since 2019, Ars Electronica has been equipped with IT devices by AfB – Arbeit für Menschen mit Behinderung. At this year’s festival, too, they’re supporting us with PCs and other equipment. Find out more about how this cooperation was established in this blog post!
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„Look beyond the boundaries of our own organization“
What do a plastics manufacturer and a festival for art, technology and society have in common? A lot, as the long-standing successful cooperation between Greiner AG and Ars Electronica proves.
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Christine Schöpf: “40 Years Are Enough!”
Christine Schöpf has accompanied Ars Electronica since its founding in 1979. Now, on the occasion of the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica, she says “40 years are enough” and takes leave of her official posts.
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Women in Media Arts: Does AI think like a (white) man?
“Women in Media Arts” is an Ars Electronica database specifically dedicated to women in media arts. In this series, we introduce you to female media artists and their work, starting with the question: Does AI think like a (White) man?
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All the best, Hannes!
At the end of the 1970s, Hannes Leopoldseder set out to create a festival for art, technology and society. Today, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, we look back on four decades of digital change with excerpts from his texts and historical photos of the co-founder of Ars Electronica.
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AI isn’t Artificial but Human
Our world is becoming more and more entangled. Financial markets where bots trade endlessly with other bots, social media algorithms that control what narrative we follow, deep fakes that make us doubt even our own senses. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find out where human influence lies in the process of AI.
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The Prix Ars Electronica Jury 2020: u19 – create your world
Young ideas and promising projects: These five experts in their respective fields will decide which are the best submissions to the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica in the u19 – create your world category.
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Connecting Minds, Creating the Future
It is a sonorous theme under which the World Expo in Dubai will start in October 2020. The idea behind it: Building partnerships and inspiring ideas that will shape the world of tomorrow. Because we all have the power to shape the future.
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Who are the u19 – create your world winners?
Until March 16, we’re looking for your projects and ideas or designs for the future in the u19 – create your world category of the Prix Ars Electronica. These five young creatives, innovators, and forward-thinkers have won the race for the Golden Nica in recent years.
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All connected, all affected
Shaun Hu’s works explore the relationship between humans and nature in the digital age. “Internet of Everything: All Connections” – currently part of the “human (un)limited” exhibition in Beijing – shows how everything around us is not only connected but also affected.
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“We are not looking for superstars!”
create your world is Ars Electronica’s future initiative of the next generation. As such, it’s currently on the lookout again for talents – not for superstars in the Prix Ars Electronica. Everyone can participate, everyone can win.
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From Theory to Practice: Ars Electronica Research Institutes
Here, academic basic research meets Ars Electronica Futurelab’s artistic/scientific application scenarios: Starting in autumn 2019, the new Ars Electronica Research Institutes will be building a bridge between theory and practice. In this interview, we learned exactly what that looks like.
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DuoSkin: Like a Second Skin
Nice metallic tattoo or modern on skin interface? Based on the aesthetics of temporary skin jewelry on skin, DuoSkin creates devices that allow users to control their mobile devices or display and store information on their skin. The project is currently part of Ars Electronica’s “human (un)limited” exhibition in Beijing.
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The Year in Review 2019 – Part 2/2
It’s July: After we woke up from this opening fever, the festival preparations and last but not least the preparations for our big birthday party continue at full speed. 40 years of Ars Electronica is the title of Part Two of our Year in Review! Have fun on this little journey through history!
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Simon Mück: „Come into my world!”
“Komm in meine Welt”(en: come to my world) is a film by Simon Mück (AT) that was created at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. The young director had previously submitted several times to the Prix Ars Electronica in the category u19 – create your world – which was drawing attention to his talent.
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From castles in the air to monsters – what do you see in the clouds?
About a week ago the wolken.raum moved to us at the Ars Electronica Center. The project of the Kindergarten of the Future invites our young visitors to let their imagination run wild and to consider which motifs they recognize in different cloud images.
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Patient Bonsai
A entire tree with branches and leaves, but as small as a potted plant: a bonsai becomes the symbol of “In Vivo”, which illuminates the border region between life and death. Behind it are the two artists Ernest Wu and Jake Tan from Singapore, who are working on their interactive installation as part of the…
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“We always need artists to wake people up”
He is considered one of the most influential contemporary artists in China. On November 2, 2019, Qiu Zhijie of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, together with the Design Society and his curator colleague Martin Honzik of Ars Electronica, will open the new exhibition “40 Years of Humanizing Technology” in Shenzhen.
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Women’s Networks in Arts & Technology
Elena Robles Mateo talks about her research project to portray networks of women in media art since the 1990s, and in her work has referred to the Women in Media Arts database of Ars Electronica, among others.
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Jungle: Like scrolling through an instagram feed
It’s supposed to feel like scrolling through an instagram feed. Alex Lazarov is 19 years old, a young creative filmmaker and YouTuber from Vienna. In his web series “Jungle”, for which he won the Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica 2019 in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category, he takes us on a…