Society
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Spot and the mobility of future generations
Finding new ideas for sustainable mobility, with AI and Boston Dynamics’ robot: A unique event in Japan included experts and families alike.
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More than just survival: “Work of the Future”
How will future generations earn income – and how can work serve a common good? An open discussion at the Futurelab Day.
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Experience how the climate affects the Großglockner
Immerse yourself in the Glockner.Luft.Raum by the Ars Electronica Futurelab: an experience in the new kärnten.museum.
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What is the European Platform for Digital Humanism?
Ars Electronica as a platform for art, technology and society and collaborative projects sponsored by the European Union belong inseparably together. Why is that so? We’ll tell you here:
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How to create "Media of the Future"
Let’s explore issues instead of just reacting to the media – but how? Experts shared ideas at the Futurelab Day.
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Dataspace: Newspaper of the Future?
How to bring truth to the center of collective perception? Artistic Journalism and Dataspace as ways out of the vacuum of real information.
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Earth4All: It is not too late
50 years after “The Limits to Growth” Club of Rome with “Earth4All” warns about the consequences of social inequality for our planet: A Survival Guide for Humanity
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The court which the future calls for
As part of the Festival University 2022, the International Environmental and Climate Court was created – a place for information, storytelling and discussion.
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Data Telling Story
WebExpression, an audiovisual interpretation of data for Cisco Systems makes abstract dynamics visible, telling a story about hybrid corporate culture.
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On four wheels into the future?
BMW, Supersense and Ars Electronica Futurelab focused on the automobile in the midst of the climate and energy crisis.
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Directors Talk: Facing crises creatively
How can creativity and art help society face crises in a resilient way? The Ars Electronica Futurelab is looking for answers.
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Dataspace: Global Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine
What does this war mean for each of us? A visualization of facts and figures explains the consequences of an invasion.
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Plan B Day: Creating Future Together
The Saturday of the festival awaits you with numerous inspirations for jointly taking steps towards a future in which we meet inevitable challenges as a global community.
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“We’ve got to do something!”
Ars Electronica has set itself the goal of taking its social responsibility seriously. One expression of this is the create your world program.
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Treetop Talks: (Eye) Level Reinterpreted
Finding common ground through a new perspective? During the Ars Electronica Festival, a meeting zone of a different sort is created in the form of the treetop talks.
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Creating Awareness for a more Sustainable Festival
From energy, water and sanitation to the technical equipment and venue: for the next part of our Sustainability Series, we take a look at what it takes to host a festival as sustainably as possible.
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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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Festival University 2022: Future Takes Place in Linz
With literally red-hot topics, young visions and a public simulative trial, Festival University wants to take a step towards the future again this year.
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Digital transformation – for whom?
Who benefits from digital transformation and who should own it? – Questions the Art Thinking Forum Tokyo was asking.
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The cycles of Ars Electronica
How sustainably will you be able to eat at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival, and what happens to all the waste that’s created in the process? Martin Honzik CCO and Head of Festival/Prix/Exhibitions gives us an insight.
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Sustainable to the Ars Electronica – is that possible?
How can a festival that attracts thousands of people to Linz every year be sustainable? Christl Baur, Head of Ars Electronica Festival, confronts the many questions of mobility.
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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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Klasse! Lernen. 2022: These are the best projects
The Austria-wide education award “Klasse! Lernen” honors pupils and teachers who integrate digital tools creatively and sustainably into the classroom. We took a closer look at the main prize and the two Awards of Distinction.
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Who wants to live forever? AI and our digital (after)lives
[:de]Throughout time and across cultures, humans have been conditioned to view death as an endpoint in the experience of life. In an increasingly globalized and digitalized world, have our traditions and behaviours towards death changed? What happens when data outlives the person?
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The slightly different café
This year, the Golden Nica in the Digital Communities category goes to Ory Yoshifuji, Co-founder CEO, Ory Laboratory Inc. for his project Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β.
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“What happens in Antarctica does not stay in Antarctica”
What does the melting of Antarctica have to do with the future of planet Earth? A lot – and that’s exactly why Giulia Foscari and UNLESS, in the work “Antarctic Resolution”, awarded the STARTS Prize 2022, have called for saving Antarctica and say: “Speak up for Antarctica now!”
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Holly+: Come and sing like Holly Herndon!
“It takes a village to create something special” and Holly Herndon and her team have succeeded in doing just that. In the interview, she presents her machine learning project in more detail, for which she has now received the European Commission’s STARTS Prize 2022.
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Center Story: April 2022
With our new “Center Stories” format, we’re telling you what’s going on behind the scenes at the Ars Electronica Center. In the first story, we want to introduce you to our plant offspring and recall a past exhibition.