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Throwback: The first Ars Electronica Festival
On September 18, 1979, the very first Ars Electronica Festival saw the light of day and laid the foundation for the Ars Electronica success story.
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Inside Festival 04
The topic of “Critical Journalism” is the focus of the fourth edition of Inside Festival with Veronika Liebl and Andrew Newman.
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Community Project: The Experts of the Future
It often seems that we as adults shape upcoming goals and mindsets for next generations without integrating them directly and taking their imagination of the future world seriously. The future sometimes feels like a distant planet that is located far away from our world. But how does this planet look like?
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Community Project: Taste your SOIL
Art, society, technology and science sees itself expanded by a conceptuality – nature. “Taste your SOIL” stands for the urgent need of making the digital a part of our cultural identity and for restoring our lost cultural awareness of the earth.
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Inside Festival Playlist
With “Inside Festival” we want to share our excitement about the upcoming festival with you! Live from our streaming studio in Linz we will give you a sneak-peek of our partner gardens’ program as well as our local events in Linz.
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Inside Festival 03
Veronika Liebl and Kristina Maurer dedicate the third episode to the topic of water ecology.
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Throwback: The CAVE
In 1996, the CAVE, a room in which you can fly through the air, was created in the recently opened Ars Electronica Center.
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Inside Festival 02
In the second session of “Inside Festival”, Christl Baur and Manuela Hillmann will address the topic of “Soil” that connects us all.
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25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab
The past, present and future of the lab in eight episodes on Ars Electronica Home Delivery
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Throwback: The first Prix Gala
In 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica was announced for the first time.
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Why trust robots?
When humans and robots work side by side, it’s not always easy.
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Throwback: The new Ars Electronica Center
On the occasion of the Capital of Culture Year 2009, the Ars Electronica Center was remodeled and expanded.
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Inside Festival: A New Digital Deal
What exactly is meant by the theme of the 2021 Ars Electronica Festival? When we talk about “deal,” do commercial interests really take precedence over everything?
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Joachim Sauter (1959 – 2021)
On the passing of Joachim Sauter, pioneer of media art.
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He lets mini-robots make music
An interview with this year’s EMAP Residency Artist: Moritz Simon Geist!
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The Futurelab in Focus
For the 25th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, filming is currently taking place in Deep Space 8K.
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In Kepler’s Gardens – The Ars Electronica Festival 2020
What a festival! 5 days, countless sessions, talks, events, partners, Ars Electronica Gardens around the world… but… Waaaaaiiiit! Wasn’t there something completely different than usual? Aren’t we in a pandemic? Aren’t we right in the middle of “New Normal”? How could a media art festival take place then?
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Adventurous Greenland at Deep Space 8K
Crashing icebergs, flowering valleys, singing whales: Greenland offers much more than “ice and snow”! Hans Thurner proves this impressively with his pictures and stories and draws a multi-layered portrait of the country and its people at Deep Space Special on November 29.
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Deep Space LIVE: Linz – From an industrial city to a cultural city
Accompany Archive Director Dr. Walter Schuster and Cornelia Daurer from the Archive of the City of Linz on a journey through time in Linz. At Deep Space LIVE on THU October 24, 2019, at 8 PM, they report on how the city has changed from the post-war period to the present day.
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The best festival tips for: Families
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for families.
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WKOÖ UBIT at the Ars Electronica: “We get the knowledge edge here”
In the midst of the festival hustle and bustle, management consultants, accountants and IT service providers will meet for the annual specialist group conference at POSTCITY. Chairman Markus Roth visited us a few days before the festival and told us why the WKOÖ UBIT is taking over the patronage of the WE GUIDE YOU tours…
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Greiner at Ars Electronica: The Future of Plastics
The plastics manufacturer Greiner is bringing five mockups to the Ars Electronica Festival to give an insight into the future of plastics. Chairman of the Board Axel Kühner explained details of this project and the cooperation with Ars Electronica.
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The best festival tips for: Techies & Gamers
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for techies and gamers.
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BIO AUSTRIA Farmers’ Market at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019
On September 7, the Saturday of the Ars Electronica Festival, numerous market stalls will not only fill the halls of POSTCITY, but also the hungry bellies of our visitors. On this day, the popular BIO AUSTRIA Farmers’ Market will once again take place.
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The best festival tips for: Newbies
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for newbies.
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“WE GUIDE YOU” through the festival jungle
The WE GUIDE YOU programme offers an overview and orientation in the thicket of 10 locations, 500 events and countless projects by over 1,000 artists. This year Spotlight Tours, Experts Tours and Community Parcours, among others, will give visitors an insight into the programme.
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Lots of green and fiery red flowers for the POSTCITY
Corn, grains, sunflowers and beans: We visited the City Gardens Linz to convince ourselves that the plants for the Ars Electronica Festival are growing and flourishing. They are part of the festival architecture and will bring some warmth into the bare halls of the POSTCITY.
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BR41N.IO Hackathon for Creative Minds: The Direct Wire to the Brain
Connecting the human brain with the specially developed controller – from September 7 to 8, this will become reality for several teams at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019 in POSTCITY Linz. Whether controlling drones by thought or mixing the right cocktail by brain activity, you can now get your place for brainstorming and developing software…