Cooperation & Innovation
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The Future of Medical Studies, Today
What the medical studies of the future look like? Find out with “Virtual Anatomy” at the new JKU medSPACE, developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab: high-resolution anatomy in 3D, where you can zoom and rotate down to the smallest blood vessel.
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EXPO 2020: Dialog with the future
After a year of Corona-related postponement, EXPO 2020 is finally getting underway. The Ars Electronica Solutions team is playing a key role in the Austria Pavilion.
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Ideas for the Future
Our world is in flux and no one knows exactly where it’s headed. But one thing is certain: In times like these, with the future coming at us at top speed, what we really need are good ideas.
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Art Thinking
There are difficult questions waiting for creative answers
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Prix 2021: Students create their own world
School at home, no meetings with friends, long periods of being alone – the side effects of the pandemic, which is now in its second year, have hit the young generation especially hard in their important stages of life.
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STARTS Prize 2021: New products from food scraps
720 tons of food are thrown away in a single day in Catalonia. It is figures like these that have prompted Anastasia Pistofidou, Marion Real and The Remixers of Fab Lab Barcelona, IaaC, to take action.
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Prix 2021: “When the Sea sends Forth a Forest” Animation-Film remembers mass murder
There are hardly any pictures from that time. It has been over 40 years since Khmer Rouge supporters in Cambodia tried with full force to impose their ideology in the country, wiping out the lives of millions of people.
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STARTS Prize 2021: The condition of the oceans and how high the stakes are
The world’s oceans not only reflect light, they also reflect the effects of the Anthropocene, the age of humankind.
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When, if not now?
Some people think the future is written in the stars. Others go to Ars Electronica. “Activism”, especially in the digital area, is a red-hot topic and therefore of course represented at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Prix 2021: Exploring and composing music worldwide
Exploring new sounds – with great joy in experimentation and a healthy dose of passion.
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Prix Ars Electronica: What were the trends in 2021?
Since its foundation in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has always served as a trend barometer and platform for the collection of current and future visions of artists on the theme of “Art, Technology and Society”.
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Prix 2021: Musicians face the new reality
The reality as we experience it around us, we create ourselves. It is constructed and at the same time changeable and unstable.
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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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Prix 2021: “Cloud Studies” – When clouds tell stories
Clouds have been telling us all kinds of stories for ages. With the project “Cloud Studies”, the collective “Forensic Architecture” once again looks up to the sky and uses technological tools to re-read clouds of smoke, poison and gas.
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Prix 2021: Sustainable and fairer Internet for everybody
Can artificial intelligence help us become more environmentally sustainable? How can we reduce the growing energy requirements of cryptocurrencies? And how can we free the IT sector from fossil fuels?
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Community Project: Symphony of Absence
A “Symphony of Absence” in the Keplerhall is meant to remind of all those celebrating their own festivals outside of Linz.
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Digital Humanism: Teaching and learning through an artistic lens
Education is one of the core aspects of the European Platform for Digital Humanism, which is only natural, as historically education has always been fundamental to what we understand humanism to be.
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Virtual Worlds
Innovative concepts for hybrid environments
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Digital Humanism: Art as driver for human-centred innovation
Digital technology spills into and shapes all aspects of our lives, from the way we inhabit both digital and physical spaces, the ways in which we interact and communicate with others, to the ways we work and plan our lives.
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Artificial intelligence as a meta-researcher
An international collective experimenting between art and science. A multidisciplinary educational organization to explore the origin and nature of life in the universe and the evolution of intelligence. The beginning of a wonderful friendship.
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“The wheel is spinning again!”
A New Digital Deal – 2021 kicks off the beginning of the doing. A first preview of the Ars Electronica Festival.
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He lets mini-robots make music
An interview with this year’s EMAP Residency Artist: Moritz Simon Geist!
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Teaching Sustainability – But in a Playful Way
For the new NAWAREUM hands-on museum, Ars Electronica Solutions is developing two game tables that make it possible to experience energy supply through renewable energies and resources in an interactive, strategic and playful way.
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Focus on the Human Being
This year, for the first time, the BMEIA and Ars Electronica have issued a joint Award for Digital Humanity. The focus is on the human being.
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“It’s very radical. Very new.”
How does a pandemic empower creative thinking? Where does it make sense to value controversy? To what extent does physical presence foster descent?
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From Atakama to Araucanía: Chile at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021
Endless landscapes, the cycle of life and the language of trees: these artists and institutions will represent their home country of Chile at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.
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Challenging the Human Perspective
How to address the biodiversity and climate crisis through collaborative and innovative art-driven approaches.
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Shaping the Digital Future
Ars Electronica’s European Platform for Digital Humanism asks about the impact of technologies on society.