Awards & Residencies
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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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Soundscapes of the Andean plain
This year’s Golden Nica in the category “Digital Musics & Sound Art” goes to the collective Atractor + Semántica Productions, for their project A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America’s Andean Plains.
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Prix Jury Weekend at the Ars Electronica Center
Experts from around the world met in Linz to agree on the Golden Nicas of the Prix Ars Electronica 2023.
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Klasse! Lernen – Working together connects
We talked in more detail with Matthias Schoiswohl-Szwajor, who together with his school class won an award and 5,000 euros for the interdisciplinary concept “Schnittstelle Werken”.
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Legacy of the past and visions on the future
A new category, a new prize and a legacy begun in 1987: the Prix Ars Electronica is once again looking for exceptional media art.
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What about AIxxNOSOGRAPHIES?
For the third round of the ArtScience Residency Rainald Schumacher met artist Špela Petrič, the winner of the 2023 edition, for an interview.
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This was the second ArtScience Residency
Migration and displacement pose some of the biggest humanitarian challenges of our time. The winner of this year’s ArtScience Residency enabled by Art Collection Deutsche Telekom, Irakli Sabekia, addressed the issues of spatial justice in his project the “Archive of Spatial Knowledge”.
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Prix Day: An Artistic Finale
On the last day of the festival, the focus will be on art. But as always, there will also be a variety of exciting projects on contemporary topics such as climate change, robotics or crisis management waiting for you.
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Forgotten feelings and false memories
In the residency program “STEAM Imaging IV”, Turkish artist Zeynep Abes is tracing the secrets of memory.
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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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A parallel (r)evolution — Digital Art in Latin America
Contemporary Latin-American Art combined with technology: The CIFO-Ars Electronica Awards offer a new perspective on media art and tackling global challenges.
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Roel Heremans: The NeuroRight Arcades
Ars Electronica Festival 2022: In a world where neuro-wearables and brain-computer interfaces will soon be ubiquitous, we should also talk about “NeuroRights.”
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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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Latin American Media Art: Talent in Abundance
Latin American art meets media art: A new collaboration between CIFO and Ars Electronica aims to support the Latin American art scene and to bring a number of outstanding artists and projects closer to the international audience.
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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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State of the ART(ist): “Art is neither warlike nor peaceful”
We are convinced that we need art as a space where contradictions can be possible. But how do you deal with these contradictions in times of war? What influence does this have on curation and how does one implement the theme of political persecution in an Open Call?
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The STARTS-Prize Jury in Linz
The international jury met for a weekend at the Ars Electronica Center to decide on the two winning projects for the STARTS Prize 2022.
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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 Sky above Atacama: Chilean Artists at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022
The interaction between the Atacama sky and clouds with the local audience in Linz: these Chilean artists will represent their home country at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022.
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And the CanSat 2022 winner is…
On Thursday, 21.4.2022, the airport of Suben in the district of Schärding was transformed into a mission control center for a number of space-loving young people.
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STARTS Prize 2022
This year, the STARTS Prize will once again honor innovative projects at the intersection of art, technology and science that have the potential to contribute to economic and social innovation.
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We award your digitalization projects!
Teachers and students can now submit for the “Klasse! Lernen.” education award. Project manager Veronika Krenn explains how it works.
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Throwback: Videoplace
In 1990 the time was ripe to take the next evolutionary step in the development of Prix Ars Electronica by adding a new category for “Interactive Art”.
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Prix Ars Electronica 2022: Here we go again!
The Prix Ars Electronica kicks off the New Year! For the 35th time in a row, the world’s most traditional media art competition is entering the next round.
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How to manage an organization like Ars Electronica
This is the question posed by participants in a new training program for cultural producers that provides insights into the way Ars Electronica works.
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Throwback: Ars Electronica goes international
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary in 2004, the time seemed ripe for Ars Electronica to finally go global.
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It’s a wrap! This was the first ArtScience Residency enabled by Art Collection Deutsche Telekom
AI, bias, listening infrastructures and art: Laura Welzenbach, Head of Ars Electronica Export, is looking back at the first year of the ArtScience Residency enabled by Art Collection Deutsche Telekom.