Society
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Day 2: Welcome to Innovation Day
Thursday is all about innovation – in a whole series of panels, talks and symposia, experts from art, science and business meet and think ahead. At the same time, the exhibitions will present works that illustrate innovation in the 21st century.
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Day 1: The 2021 Festival is officially open!
“A New Digital Deal” has chosen “Education Day” as its motto for Wednesday – on World Literacy Day. In order to bring about change, we need the ability to act – and in order to acquire this ability, we need above all education, both in and out of school.
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Day 0: Pre-Opening – Here we go!
“A New Digital Deal” is the title of the 2021 Ars Electronica Festival, and it’s intended to propagate a new way of meeting challenges. As a platform for art, technology and society, we want to provide impulses, pose questions, explore paths and get right down to implementing them.
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Directors Talk – 25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab and beyond
We all shape future – constantly. In the process, we are confronted with major challenges, from the climate crisis to digital transformation.
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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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Digital Democracy: How democratic is the Internet?
Is democracy digital and how democratic is the digital? We have put together a collection of festival projects on the topic of “Digital Democracy”!
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Man, machine and trust
Trust is one of those things. With a bit of luck, we gather more good than bad experiences, fall back into a – trusted – network when we stumble, and can face new experiences positively and without any worries.
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Inside Festival 09
The ninth episode of “Inside Festival” is all about sustainability and ecology. Christl Baur and Laura Welzenbach present three projects from our Festival Gardens and give us a sneak peek into one youth perspective of “Create your World”.
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LOOPS OF WISDOM: an artistic guide to action
Exhibitions, presentations, performances, interventions, workshops and lab settings as well as a discursive platform: LOOPS OF WISDOM, the exhibition of the Linz University of Art and Design in the course of the Ars Electronica Festival, is actually much more than that.
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Volunteer Fair Upper Austria meets Ars Electronica
FEST.ENGAGIERT will take place in the course of the Ars Electronica Festival for the first time in 2021. This collaboration is based on the belief in change, the belief in a “New Digital Deal.
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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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Some people think Alexa and Siri only listen when they’re supposed to…
…others go to Ars Electronica. Public space/privacy – how do they intertwine and can we trust promises about privacy? This core theme is also represented in the form of festival projects.
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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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Some people believe everything they read on the Internet…
…others go to Ars Electronica. That’s why this year’s festival features numerous projects and gardens on the topic of “Digital Education”.
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Who owns the world?
Some people think Alexa and Siri only listen when they’re supposed to. Others go to Ars Electronica.
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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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Some people think 2°C is no big deal…
…others go to Ars Electronica. We present you a selection of projects and gardens that deal with questions around the topic of ecology.
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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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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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Community Project: Taste your SOIL
Art, society, technology and science sees itself expanded by a conceptuality – nature. “Taste your SOIL” stands for the urgent need of making the digital a part of our cultural identity and for restoring our lost cultural awareness of the earth.
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K’ARTS Garden: “Our work is fresh and fun”
Ars Electronica accompanied K-ARTS students for one semester. The result were eight artworks that will be shown at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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The Winners of the 2021 STARTS Prize
We present the Grand Prizes at the intersection of science, technology and art: “Remix el Barrio” and “Oceans in Transformation”.
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Humans, robots and the future of work
We’ve pinned our hopes for the future on them, but also regard them with suspicion: Robots will soon be part of our daily lives.
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How Digitization Moves Mountains
If we use smartphones for an average of only two years, then the resulting mining of raw materials should give us pause for thought. (German language)
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The World is not Enough
We humans have left traces on this blue planet – in the water, on the earth, in the air, but also in outer space.
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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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The Invention of Sustainability
New technologies have increased the pace of consumption of our resources – but even the raw material wood used to bring problems. (German language)
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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.