Society
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A lot going on in the moss!
The new Home Delivery Workshop for Biodiversity Day is here! Equipped with microscopes and laboratory materials, elementary school children can now also get a virtual taste of the life of a researcher.
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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.
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The STARTS Universe
S+T+ARTS is more than an international and regional promotion platform for artists, connecting them with scientists, industry and technology partners.
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“We have to invent the future we want”
Therefore, it needs people who have a feeling for change and recognize contexts, develop new strategies and set the course. And that is precisely where we want to support companies from now on.
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“What exactly is a star?”
A beverage can as mini-satellite, children as climate detectives or a training camp for astronauts: ESERO Austria uses the fascination of the topic of space to introduce young people to scientific topics.
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We also deliver to schools and companies now
What do we deliver? Ideas and visions of our future. And where do we deliver them? Directly into your living rooms, but also to schools and companies. Here’s an overview of our new Ars Electronica Home Delivery offer for you!
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Special Times Require Special Measures
What does a museum visit to the Ars Electronica Center currently look like? Can I hold an event and if so, what are the conditions? We have all the information you need on how you can safely visit our program and events at the Ars Electronica Center.
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BIO AUSTRIA: Back to the Regional
The Regional has recently experienced a new upswing as a result of the Corona crisis, especially when it comes to food. The BIO AUSTRIA Farmers’ Market once again invites visitors to the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz to taste these regional products.
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A Look at the Civil Society of the Future
Civil society engagement is crucial for our pluralistic, open and solidary society. The ULF symposium on Saturday of the Ars Electroncia Festival 2020 will be all about the future of this very civil society.
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Meinhard Lukas: From the Postcity into Kepler’s Gardens
It was the site of the old post distribution center at the main train station, where the magicians of Ars Electronica transformed an analog yesterday into a digital tomorrow. In no other place and in no other time has Linz ever been more urban and international than in the Postcity.
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The future under the pillow
Of course we realize that we do not understand integral calculus better if we put the textbooks under the pillow on which we sleep. But it doesn’t do any harm, does it?
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Women in Media Arts: Does AI think like a (white) man?
“Women in Media Arts” is an Ars Electronica database specifically dedicated to women in media arts. In this series, we introduce you to female media artists and their work, starting with the question: Does AI think like a (White) man?
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The world stands still – the whole world?
There is no talk of social distancing here, there are enough reasons to leave the house and hygiene is a permanent topic anyway – not only in exceptional cases. Our beekeeper Harald Wohlschlager visited the colony of bees on the roof of the Ars Electronica Center in times of the corona pandemic.
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“The lower the mobility, the lower is the social contacting”
On the basis of anonymised mobile phone data, the Austrian company Invenium is creating movement analyses to help the crisis team to check the effectiveness of the measures taken against the Corona virus. But many citizens are concerned about the protection of their data.
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SySTEM 2020: The Opportunities of STEM Learning
Where does learning take place if not in the classroom? How inclusive are out-of-school educational opportunities in Europe and what does “STEM” actually stand for? We had two project partners explain the project SySTEM 2020 to us.
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How to compose with MuseNet a piece of music in the style of Mozart
We tried for you how to compose music with the Deep Neural Network “MuseNet” from OpenAI and made a step-by-step guide based on it. If you want to learn more about composing music using AI, you should visit the Open Soundstudio at the Ars Electronica Center and participate in the “MuseNet Special” workshop.
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“Technology will be part of the solution”
Shortly before Christmas, Katharina Hof, cultural mediator at the Ars Electronica Center, gave a lecture entitled “Anatomy of an AI System” to roughly 500 students at the HTL Neufelden. How it happened and what the lecture was about was revealed to us by the school’s director, Walter Jungwirth.
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Helping with Artificial Intelligence?
Can Artificial Intelligence help to help refugees? Or is it the next step in evolution with which technology takes our place? These and similar questions were posed by the participants of a workshop on Artificial Intelligence that they won at the ZusammenHelfen conference at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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“Our existence may not be limited to machines”
Maja Smrekar’s “!brute_force” – also part of the human (un)limited exhibition in Beijing – deals with the relation man-dog-machine. The basic statement of the work is: Even if we need technology, our existence must not be limited to machines.
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“It’s about what people can do with technology”
The Ars Electronica Futurelab’s “ShadowGAN” project is part of the “human (un)limited” exhibition series currently on show in Beijing, Seoul and Moscow until the end of February. The focus is not on technology as such, but on the human being itself, including its weaknesses and strengths and its eternal search for a place in the…
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Exploring human limits
Thanks to our creativity and inventiveness, what limits have we overcome and made the supposedly impossible possible? What consequences does this have for us, for our self-image and for the importance we attach to ourselves in the world? What old and new limits do we reach despite all our successes – as individuals and as…
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40 Years of Humanizing Technology: How Technology shapes our Society
Technology as an essential human invention or as a self-runner that will overtake us in the future? The exhibition “40 Years of Humanizing Technology – Art, Technology and Society”, organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing (CAFA) and Ars Electronica, deals with the question of the antithesis between man and technology that has…
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Nicole Grüneis: “We want to be an ‘educational partner in crime’”
Accompany Tardi through the microcosm, experiment with robots or compose one’s own music: The start of school at the Ars Electronica Center is also the kick-off for new educational programs especially for school classes.
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Young Computer Scientists: An Internship at the nexus of Art and Computer Science
The Young Computer Scientists program at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz allows secondary students with an interest in computer science to take part in exciting workshops followed by an internship – at Ars Electronica Futurelab, among other places. We spoke with intern Ivonne Gattringer and initiator Dr. Hanspeter Mössenböck to learn more.
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Life gets better through Artificial Intelligence
It is the second most densely populated metropolis and one of the three most visited cities in Europe: Barcelona. The Innovation Bureau 300,000 Km/s, which was awarded the STARTS Prize 2019 for the “Ciutat Vella’s Land-use Plan” project, shows how new technologies can help to make urban space a place worth living in.
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Just for Fun? Playful learning!
Feel young again? The Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center offer adults a mental rejuvenation cure through a fresh, young approach to current topics and give children and teenagers the freedom to breathe life into Artificial Intelligence with pleasure and in the self-experiment.
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Smart security – what else?
How much (living) comfort justifies how much disclosure of personal data? How do manufacturers of intelligent products deal with customer data? How easily can devices be accessed from outside or even influenced?