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The Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2022
The Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2022 once again features a wide selection of works ranging from animated shorts to interactive animated audio-visual environments.
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Cyber Arts 2022: The best media artworks of the year
This year, for the first time, the Cyber Arts exhibition brings together the year’s best Prix Ars Electronica award-winning art projects in the KEPLER’S GARDENS on the campus of Johannes Kepler University Linz.
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Tools to Confront Unbalanced Realities
What rights do you have in the location of your residence? In his work, artist Irakli Sabekia deals with the spatial and social memory of people who have been forcefully displaced.
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HOW (D)ARE YOU? – The create your world-Festival 2022
The create your world festival 2022 brings a colorful mix of projects and invites to research, experiment and discuss together.
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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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Throwback: ORIGIN – Investigating the Big Bang
The exhibition took a closer look at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, covering its history, daily activities and the ambitious goals of the global research project.
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STUDIO(dys)TOPIA – At the Peak of Humankind
“STUDIO(dys)TOPIA” explores how humankind can transform sustainable practices into action and serves as a metaphor for our present, in which the concepts of dystopias and utopias find themselves in a changed reality.
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Latin American Media Art: Talent in Abundance
Latin American art meets media art: A new collaboration between CIFO and Ars Electronica aims to support the Latin American art scene and to bring a number of outstanding artists and projects closer to the international audience.
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Throwback: The VRLab
At the Ars Electronica Center’s VRLab, it was possible to immerse yourself in virtual worlds and superimpose data on our reality.
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The black blanket: Art and Depression
With the project “The Black Blanket”, Linz based artist Mary Mayrhofer artistically processes her depression and received the Golden Nica in the category “u19 – create your world” for it.
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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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Throwback: Le Sacre du Printemps
In 2006, the Ars Electronica Futurelab collaborated with media artist Klaus Obermaier on a unique production of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps.
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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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Throwback: Ready to pull the lifeline?
From September 2 to 11, 2010, the Ars Electronica Festival “REPAIR – Ready to pull the lifeline” took place on the grounds of the former tobacco factory in Linz
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Interactive and time-based: Deep Space as a platform for young artists
The bachelor’s program “Time-based and Interactive Media Arts” at the Linz University of the Arts lets young artists develop their own interactive program for Deep Space 8K.
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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.
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I see you: (in)visibility and equality in a new digital world
As Ars Electronica is a platform for those who see the future as the responsibility of our time and face it with social activation and empowerment, the last festival hosted projects which focused on making different realities and identities visible.
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It’s about trying out things
In this interview, Gerfried Stocker explains why it takes more than virtual meetings to get people talking and how the Ars Electronica Festival is trying to become sustainable and resource-conserving.
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Where Stories Come to Life: Storytelling in Deep Space 8K
Once in a lifetime, travel through space and see the earth from above. Seeing the human body from the inside for once and being present during a heart operation. Or once having the opportunity to look at Klimt’s “The Kiss” as close as if you were part of the painting.
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“Welcome to the Sound of Planet B”
What is Julie Andrews doing in the Aral Sea with VR goggles? Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of Ars Electronica, explains the thoughts behind the festival subject “Welcome to Planet B” and tells us how the image was created.
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Deep Space EVOLUTION: Virtual Anatomy
With “Virtual Anatomy” in Deep Space EVOLUTION you can now experience the fascination of the human body even more impressively!
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Throwback: The World in 100 Years
The exhibition “The World in 100 Years” paid tribute to great thinkers and activists who were ahead of their time and worked for a vision of the future.
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The STARTS-Prize Jury in Linz
The international jury met for a weekend at the Ars Electronica Center to decide on the two winning projects for the STARTS Prize 2022.
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Throwback: The Vienna Giant Ferris
In 2017, Ars Electronica Solutions was engaged by ARTDELUXE Kunst- und Kulturmanagement to stage the new foyer at Vienna’s Giant Ferris Wheel.
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CanSat 2022: Once in the Sky and back
Launching their own mini-satellite 500 metres towards space with a rocket and collecting scientific data – this was the fifth time that students in the CanSat competition had the opportunity to do so.
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Throwback: Spaceship Earth
The exhibition “Spaceship Earth” dealt with the question of what we can learn about our planet by observing it.
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Throwback: From Austria to the World
“From Austria to the World” – under this motto, the Austrian Star Alliance Terminal Check-in 3 at Vienna Airport featured five unique gigapixel images of New York City in 2013.
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Throwback: Innocence
Innocence was a 2013 work by the Ars Electronica Futurelab dedicated to Linz’s childhood memories of the Passage shopping center.