Highlights
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Fortify – Comics that Empower
12 powerful stories are being presented by MKD x nextcomic from March 18 to April 27, 2025, bringing a breath of fresh air to the city and to us at the Museum of the Future.
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The Art of Knowledge Transfer
Science is complex, science is slow. Projects that do not preach data and figures but stage experiences show how it can still be made exciting.
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Can art change the world?
In 2024, Ars Electronica once again used international open calls, exciting collaborations and the festival as a stage to show how art can highlight creative solutions to the pressing issues of our time.
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The interconnected world
The new exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center, “Connected Earth”, thematizes how the smallest creatures and powerful tides interact, what changes in biodiversity mean for man-made infrastructures, and what makes the Earth so habitable for millions of species, especially in their interaction.
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Immerse yourself in the art of the wave
Since March 2024, “Planet Ocean” has been inspiring visitors to the Oberhausen Gasometer with its giant ocean projection “The Wave”. Project manager Ina Badics and her team give an insight into the challenges and inspirations that made this unique installation possible.
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A record: More than 112,000 visits to Ars Electronica 2024
Once again, the Ars Electronica Festival has shown what it is all about: creating space, time and an atmosphere in which people can exchange ideas and inspire each other.
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Ars Electronica Festival: A stage for music & experiments
Music is a central component of the Ars Electronica Festival. From September 4 to 8, visitors can expect a diverse program ranging from classical to digital music
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From Hope to Action
This year’s theme symposium will focus on people who inspire others through their creativity, empathy and courage, and who create hope for a better future.
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STARTS 2024 Exhibition: Art as a Catalyst in the Innovation Process
How can we foster a culture in which art, science, and technology thrive as interrelated and mutually enriching methods of exploration, knowledge, and discovery? For a more sensitive and determined approach to the pressing issues of our time. Let’s embark on a journey into a world of possibilities. A world of new solutions.
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Art Thinking Lounge: A Hub for Creative Innovation
The Art Thinking Lounge is a platform for transformation through art that offers companies, artists, scientists, activists and citizens a space to explore and discuss future visions through art.
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A Festival for Artists
What is the role of art festivals like Ars Electronica? What do they have to do and for whom? For good reason, the vast majority of answers to these questions focus on the audience. However, another key target group is often overlooked: the artists themselves.
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Artistic resistance and social resilience: State of the ART(ist) 2024
State of the ART(ist) in 2024 demonstrates how art can flourish under extreme conditions and reflect social issues.
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Interdisciplinary and practice-based learning
The IT:U programme of the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 addresses societal challenges through interdisciplinary innovation, bringing together experts from a variety of fields, including technology, art, science and design, to work together on effective solutions.
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The new Ars Electronica Platform Europe
The European Platform for Digital Humanism has been relaunched as Ars Electronica Platform Europe to foster collaboration for tech-driven change through art and to advocate for healthy democracies on the continent and beyond.
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From Taiwan to Austria: Expanding artistic horizons
Projects arising from the collaboration with TAICCA and other Taiwanese partners bring AI reflection and artistic innovation to the Ars Electronica Festival.
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“Do we just look, or do we see?”
Manuela Naveau, curator of the Kunstuni Campus at the Ars Electronica Festival and university professor of Critical Data / Interface Cultures, on seeing, dreaming, celebrating and a tower on the main square in Linz.
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A circular model for the future
The Label4Future project aims to develop sustainable solutions together with companies – supported by digital transformation and innovative approaches from cultural and creative industries.
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Virtuality meets reality: XR projects at the Ars Electronica Festival
The exhibition „Applied Virtualities: Extended Reality in Practice“ shows how XR technologies are opening up new paths and poses important questions about the future of our digital world.
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create your world festival: From hope to action. Between yesterday and today.
What does it really mean to shape the world? How do you find confidence in your ability to influence? What role does our mental health play in society? Who takes responsibility? Will we turn the tide?
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Exploring the world in Deep Space 8K
During the Ars Electronica Festival, numerous highlights will be presented in Deep Space 8K, promising inspiration, interaction and information.
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Prix Ars Electronica 2024: a question of the mindset
The Prix Ars Electronica exhibition is considered one of the highlights of the Ars Electronica Festival program. We were able to take a look behind the scenes and discovered some innovations as well as projects from the archive.
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Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Digital Art as a Catalyst for Change
The Animation Festival 2024 presents current and socially critical productions in the field of digital animation.
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New Sounds from Switzerland: The Ars Electronica Nightline
In 2024, Ars Electronica Nightline will focus on innovative club music from Switzerland and offer a unique platform for Swiss artists.
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Bridging past, present and future: media art from Latin America
Artists honoured with the CIFO x Ars Electronica Award address environmental problems and present innovative projects.
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Preserving Heritage in the Digital Age
The Balot NFT democratizes digital cultural ownership and aids in reclaiming stolen land, using NFT technology as a decolonization tool in a new restitution model.
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Artistic Explorations in Science
Arts at CERN, the arts programme of CERN in Geneva, has invited artists since 2012 to explore fundamental scientific questions alongside physicists.
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From Blue Marble to Bioplastic Record
“Smoke and Mirrors” by British artist Beatie Wolfe visualises 50 years of climate data and contrasts it with advertising slogans from the oil industry. She has now been awarded the Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica for her work.
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Taking Back Power: Patchwork Girl
The winner of the Digital Humanity Award sets an example against online exploitation and for women’s rights in the digital age.