The HEROINES project shows how citizens can help shape social change through research. In 2025, it was awarded the European Union Prize for Citizen Science.
What does a sustainable future in a big city look like? The Wild Future Lab in Nairobi showcases new paths for a renaturalized city through wearable, innovative artifacts made from local materials.
SHARESPACE explores new forms of collaboration between people, avatars, and AI in hybrid spaces. The focus is on connection, participation, and creative interaction, accompanied artistically by Ars Electronica Futurelab. One space, infinite possibilities.
In this issue, Horst Hörtner presents a project that shows how art, technology, and participation can come together: the Klangwolke 2012, in which swarms of drones were used for the first time and thousands of people became part of the production.
The LAS Art Foundation’s Sensing Quantum project has been awarded the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration for its groundbreaking work in developing new pathways into quantum technology through immersive experiences and interdisciplinary collaboration.
How closely are commercial AI systems entangled with military technology? Awarded the STARTS Prize 2025 Grand Prize –Artistic Exploration, this project reveals hidden connections.
Artificial Intelligence is changing how we perceive art. Projects such as the Waltz Symphony show how AI can enrich creative processes, as long as humans set the direction. But not everyone is convinced; some fear the loss of originality.
“Cutting Edge” is a new blog series in which Ars Electronica team members present outstanding artistic projects. In the first edition, Gerfried Stocker introduces a project that shows how technology can create closeness: In the ‘Avatar Robot Café,’ people with severe physical disabilities are integrated into everyday working life via robots.
As curator in residence of the ARKO-sponsored Curatorial Residency Program, Son Hyerim was on site during the jury weekend of the Prix Ars Electronica. In this guest article, she shares her personal reflections on this experience.
From the uncertainty of the present to the power of art – in conversation with Gerfried Stocker, we shed light on the theme of the Ars Electronica Festival 2025.
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.
Oliviero Toscani (1942–2025) used art and advertising to challenge society. His legacy inspires us to rethink the status quo.
Ars Electronica embodies a vibrant community in which art, technology and society merge. For us, society is more than just a concept – it is the dynamic interaction of people who jointly develop visions, find creative solutions and shape the future.
From world-famous buildings to a unique composer, the endless depths of the ocean and an Austrian export hit: How Ars Electronica uses innovative technologies to implement artistic ideas.
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.
Researcher and curator Eunji Kwon provides insights into her research work as part of the ARKO and Ars Electronica curatorial residency programme.
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.
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.
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.
Fly through the gigantic three-dimensional point cloud of Notre-Dame de Paris, learn all about the elaborate restoration of Vittore Carpaccio’s Young Knight in a Landscape, or get to know the innovative pictorial compositions of the Flemish master Pieter Claesz – as part of Ars Electronica 2024, Deep Space 8K once again became an immersive showcase…
Hope is not a substitute for action. Rather, it is a basis for action that we consciously choose – in the midst of cynicism, ignorance and indifference. An invitation to feel, to act, to touch and to be touched.
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
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.
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.
What do an archive of media art and the history of AI have in common? And can these histories perhaps be intertwined in order to gain a better insight into what has fascinated and preoccupied people at different times with the idea of “artificial intelligence”?
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.
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.