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Ars Electronica Features: Beacons of Hope from Around the World
The Ars Electronica Features combine art and technology in close collaboration with partner institutions to showcase artistic programs and perspectives from around the world that initiate change.
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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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From Industrialization to Automation
“Calculating Empires” traces the entwining of technology and power over five centuries, showing how colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure operate today and might be unwound.
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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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A Story of Arrangement
“You are part of a huge weave, that you cannot ignore anymore.” When you enter Diane Cescutti’s website and her work, you enter the world of weaving.
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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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Art in the Storm of Flight
The project ‘Fluten der Freiheit’ highlights the moving and often life-threatening journey of refugees across the sea, bringing to life their risks and hopes in search of a better life.
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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.
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Immersive Journeys Through Time
Ars Electronica is the future, cultural heritage is the past. Both tell of disruptive interrelationships at the intersection of art, technology and society. In Deep Space 8K, they enter into a unique symbiosis.
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Fostering Plant Diversity Through Community Participation
The INCREASE project helps protect plant genetic resources by involving citizens in growing and tracking different types of beans, which boosts biodiversity and supports sustainable farming.
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“Waltz Symphony”: Of humans and machines
Artificial intelligence and classical music merge seamlessly in the Waltz Symphony project. Composition students develop innovative orchestral pieces in dialogue with the AI application Ricercar.
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Borderline of Hope
Eunji Kwon has been selected as the second curator in residence for the Curatorial Residency Program enabled by ARKO. In this guest post, she reflects on the Prix Ars Electronica jury weekend from her personal perspective.
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Beacons of hope in a changing world
Under the title HOPE, the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 will focus on the people who give us cause for optimism.
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Data Art in dialogue: Artistic Interactions with Technology and Society
Data art transforms complex data into interactive, aesthetic works of art. In “Pulse of the EPO”, the Berlin duo Quadrature uses patent data to explore social and cosmic boundaries.
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Fluid Sonic Spaces
Space, sound and comics – students of the Master School of Communication Design Linz present colorful, animated and fluid comic sound collages.
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Intersections of Technology, Society, and Environment in Mobility
In the sixth and last chapter of the FOUNDING LAB Fall Term, students delve into the intersection of technology, society, and policy through the lens of mobility
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Interdisciplinary Urban Studies and Data Art
In our interview with Prof. Dietmar Offenhuber, we find out how important interdisciplinary approaches are in research and what role data plays in a digitalised world.
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Ars Electronica Recap 2023: Unveiling Truths, Shaping Society and Innovating Education
As the year draws to a close, we look back on twelve months of intense social experiences, challenges, inspiring moments and exciting projects.
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Ars Electronica Recap 2023: Off to New Horizons
The year is coming to an end, but before it does we want to look back on a year of creativity, challenge and inspiration.
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Soft Wars – Data, code and models that shape our lives
The second chapter of the Fall Term focused on data and coding. The Fall Term is part of the FOUNDING LAB, a collaborative prototype of a new university.
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Origami for social innovation: Ori Shelter
Foldable, affordable, self-sufficient and recycled – Chiara Croci shows at the Ars Electronica Futurelab how emergency shelters can be rethought.
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This was the third ArtScience Residency enabled by Art Collection Deutsche Telekom
We look back to one more year of the ArtScience Residency that was made possible through the support of the Art Collection Deutsche Telekom.
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Where art merges with its digital future
The 50th anniversary of the Art University marks five decades of cultural progress in Linz. We talked to Rector Brigitte Hütter about the digitization of art.
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Equipped for the future?
Basic digital education is the examination of the mechanisms of technology, its ethical aspects and social contexts.
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Between Humans and Nature: an interview with Chiaochi Chou
FOUNDING LAB student Bart Kuipers had the chance to interview Chiaochi Chou (TW) and ask her about the work Synplant that she created together with Youyang Hu (CN) and Yasuaki Kakehi (JP).
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On the Art of Reinvention: A University Begins
As part of FOUNDING LAB, Ars Electronica and the Institute of Digital Sciences Austria commissioned 75 students from around the world to imagine a new university.
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Back in POSTCITY and through downtown Linz: That was the Ars Electronica Festival 2023!
Five days full of exhibitions, performances, lectures and events are behind us – in the unique location of POSTCITY and at 13 venues in downtown Linz.