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January 2021: Closed, but still open
Of course, we didn’t imagine it like this, but who could? Trying out new things and learning from them – that was once again the motto of Ars Electronica at the beginning of 2021.
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Throwback: Ars Electronica goes international
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary in 2004, the time seemed ripe for Ars Electronica to finally go global.
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The Year in Review 2021
From videos to image galleries: At the end of the year, we will once again pick the cherrys out of the last months that we have shaped together with artists, scientists and other partners.
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Throwback: The first Ars Electronica Labs
The new Ars Electronica Center in 2009 had not only gained more exhibition space and urban visibility, but had also used the opportunity to completely reinvent itself.
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Throwback: Linz Steel Symphony
In 1980, electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze opened the Ars Electronica Festival with a concert of live recorded sounds from the Linz steelworks voestalpine.
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A Picnic for a positive future
The “School of the Future -OPEN STUDIO-” in Tokyo Midtown invites visitors to the spacious garden of Tokyo Midtown for a “Future Picnic” in the greenery to reunite the people of the metropolis with themselves and nature after a year of distance.
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Throwback: Humphrey the flight simulator
Howering just a few meters above the lobby of the Ars Electronica Center, an installation called Humphrey promised a very special kind of experience which was connceted to a deeply human desire.
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Throwback: A journey around the world in 80+1 days
On the occasion of the news about the passing of Linz09 artistic director Martin Heller, we travel back to the Capital of Culture year 2009 and take a look at the project “80+1 – A Journey around the World”.
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Throwback: The Cloud in the Web
33 years after the very first Linzer Klangwolke in 1979, which marked the beginning of the Ars Electronica Festival, Ars Electronica got the chance to create the 2012 Klangwolke.
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Throwbacks
In our Throwback series, we take a look back at past events, exhibitions, installations and other exciting happenings from the Ars Electronica universe since 1979.
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Throwback: Robots and Androids are among us
In 2009 and 2010, the Ars Electronica Center had special visitors of a somewhat different kind.
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EXPO 2020 is officially open
After a year of Corona-related delays, Expo 2020 officially opened in Dubai on October 1. We have some insights for you.
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Throwback: Second City
In 2007, during the Ars Electronica Festival, Marienstaße in Linz became a transition zone into virtuality for one week.
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10 Years of CanSat Competition!
2020 marked the 10th anniversary of the CanSat competition. With a Corona-related delay, this year’s celebration is underway – and the next competition is already ready to start.
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Throwback: Going to the Country
In 2006, the Ars Electronica Festival moved for the first time to the baroque St. Florian Monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine.
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Inside Festival 13
The thirteenth and final edition of “Inside Festival” allows you a sneak peek behind-the-scenes of the festival preparations
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Throwback: The new generation
In 1998 a new category was introduced at the Prix Ars Electronica – “Cybergeneration U19”.
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Inside Festival 12
In the twelfth edition of “Inside Festival”, Christl Baur and Manuela Hillmann will introduce five festival projects that are dedicated to a call for action.
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Inside Festival 11
Christl Baur and Hortense Boulais-Ifrène dedicate the eleventh edition of Inside Festival to the topic of “Community” and present a total of four projects that address the topic from different perspectives.
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Throwback: The temporary museum
While the new Ars Electronica Center was built on the northern bank of the Danube, the museum made a guest appearance in downtown Linz until the end of 2008.
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Inside Festival 10
Veronika Liebl and Andrew Newman dedicate the tenth edition of Inside Festival to the topic of “Data/ Storage of our data” and present a total of five projects that address the topic from different perspectives.
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Throwback: In Search of a new Festival location – The POSTCITY
With the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 at Johannes Kepler University being around the corner, let’s take a look back at the location that re-invented the Festival as a platform – the POSTCITY.
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Inside Festival 08
Veronika Liebl and Kristina Maurer dedicate the eighth episode of “Inside Festival” to the topic of “New Realities“. They present two projects from our Festival Gardens and an artistic project and give us a sneak peek into the create your world program.
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Poetic Systems
How art can make complex structures tangible
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Throwback: The Museum of the Future
1996 was a major turning point for Ars Electronica as an institution. For around four years a background process had been underway to fundamentally change Ars Electronica: the creation of the Ars Electronica Center.
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Inside Festival 07
Christl Baur, Head of Ars Electronica Festival and Maaya Makino, Garden Manager, Ars Electronica dedicate the seventh edition of “Inside Festival” to the topic of “Robotinity” and present a total of four projects that addresses this topic.
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Inside Festival 06
Christl Baur, Head of Ars Electronica Festival and Hannes F. Franks M.A. Producer Performances, Ars Electronica dedicate the sixth edition of “Inside Festival” to the topic of “Sound Experiments” and present a total of six projects that addresses this topic.
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Inside Festival 05
Veronika Liebl and Karla Spiluttini take a look at the microcosm and macrocosm on the basis of some of the projects that will be shown at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.