AR & VR
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A record: More than 112,000 visits to Ars Electronica 2024
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.
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Virtuality meets reality: XR projects at the Ars Electronica Festival
The exhibition „Applied Virtualities: Extended Reality in Practice“ shows how XR technologies are opening up new paths and poses important questions about the future of our digital world.
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Exploring the world in Deep Space 8K
During the Ars Electronica Festival, numerous highlights will be presented in Deep Space 8K, promising inspiration, interaction and information.
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Prix Ars Electronica 2024: a question of the mindset
The Prix Ars Electronica exhibition is considered one of the highlights of the Ars Electronica Festival program. We were able to take a look behind the scenes and discovered some innovations as well as projects from the archive.
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How to build a theater time machine
Elaborate digital reconstruction for an immersive experience: The Ars Electronica Futurelab revived “Faust” from 90 years ago for the Salzburg Festival.
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High-tech meets nervous system
A new installation by the Ars Electronica Futurelab decodes the complex world of microelectronics.
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Jury honors anatomy education of the future
Following international success: Upper Austrian Prize for Innovation goes to “Cinematic Virtual Anatomy” by Ars Electronica Futurelab, JKU and Siemens Healthineers.
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Exploring hidden stories behind unheard messages in Behind the Wall by Ghazal Hosseini and Hanif Haghtalab
A message on a wall, graffiti that has been hidden or censored, holds within itself a whole complexity of experiences, narratives, or statements that co-exist as possibilities. The walls in the streets are a medium for expressing oneself for those who have no access to the hegemonic ones. Furthermore, for those who fight against their…
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Theater magic reimagined: Premiere of „Faust 2023“
Salzburg Festival and Ars Electronica Futurelab invite you to experience Max Reinhardt’s famous „Faust“ in a new way, using VR.
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The Open Futurelab invites you: Get active for new hope
Re-experience technology as a social tool and discuss “What are the Futures?” – with the Futurelab at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Invisible Journeys in a Fictitious World
In 2023, the Golden Nica in the Prix Ars Electronica category New Animation Art went to South Korean artist Ayoung Kim for her project “Delivery Dancer’s Sphere”.
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The question of truth
Digitization is not only changing our definition of truth, but also the question of what ownership means in today’s digital world.
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EU project for radically new extended reality
How to connect humans and avatars in hybrid spaces? The Ars Electronica Futurelab will find out, as part of “Sharespace”.
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Is technology the answer?
What role does technology play in future life on this planet? To highlight Earth Day, Our Earth VR fuses 3D animation and sound to create a moving VR experience.
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Ars Electronica celebrates Bruckner with “Being Anton”
Immerse yourself in Anton Bruckner’s world of music and thought – with unique experiences at the Ars Electronica Center for the 2024 celebration year.
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High-tech psychology in Deep Space 8K
Humans, robots, mixed reality and the future of work: the Ars Electronica Futurelab as part of the CoBot Studio research project.
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That’s why we are so fascinated by technology
We experiment, develop and tell stories with technology. The first part of Ars Electronica’s 2022 Year in Review shows how.
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Dataspace: Newspaper of the Future?
How to bring truth to the center of collective perception? Artistic Journalism and Dataspace as ways out of the vacuum of real information.
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Dataspace: Global Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine
What does this war mean for each of us? A visualization of facts and figures explains the consequences of an invasion.
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Art from Asia: The 4th VH Award
International art and diversity are one of the many key aspects of the Ars Electronica Festival. A project that showcases these components in Linz is the 4th edition of the VH Award.
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How we do research in Deep Space 8K (2)
Diving into alien worlds, experiencing art and medicine in a completely new way: Research in Deep Space 8K opens up unique opportunities.
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How we do research in Deep Space 8K (1)
Whether individually or in large groups, with robots or in virtual worlds: The Deep Space 8K makes unique research possible.
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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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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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Deep Space EVOLUTION: Virtual Anatomy
A fascinating journey through the human body turns anatomy data into an immersive 3D experience in Ars Electronica Center.
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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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Deep Space EVOLUTION: Uniview 3.0
Explore the space with the new version of “Uniview”, the amazing virtual planetarium program of Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K.
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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!