Ars Electronica Center
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Navigating Panic: Notes from Where Panic Becomes a Compass
As curator in residence of the ARKO-sponsored Curatorial Residency Program, Son Hyerim was on site during the jury weekend of the Prix Ars Electronica. In this guest article, she shares her personal reflections on this experience.
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Oliviero Toscani: Creativity has to be subversive
Oliviero Toscani (1942–2025) used art and advertising to challenge society. His legacy inspires us to rethink the status quo.
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By us, for us: Shaping Society
Ars Electronica embodies a vibrant community in which art, technology and society merge. For us, society is more than just a concept – it is the dynamic interaction of people who jointly develop visions, find creative solutions and shape the future.
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Where Technology meets the Future
From world-famous buildings to a unique composer, the endless depths of the ocean and an Austrian export hit: How Ars Electronica uses innovative technologies to implement artistic ideas.
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Ethical Approaches in Bio Art
Researcher and curator Eunji Kwon provides insights into her research work as part of the ARKO and Ars Electronica curatorial residency programme.
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The interconnected world
The new exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center, “Connected Earth”, thematizes how the smallest creatures and powerful tides interact, what changes in biodiversity mean for man-made infrastructures, and what makes the Earth so habitable for millions of species, especially in their interaction.
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Art History in Deep Space 8K
Fly through the gigantic three-dimensional point cloud of Notre-Dame de Paris, learn all about the elaborate restoration of Vittore Carpaccio’s Young Knight in a Landscape, or get to know the innovative pictorial compositions of the Flemish master Pieter Claesz – as part of Ars Electronica 2024, Deep Space 8K once again became an immersive showcase…
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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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200 Years of Anton Bruckner: Music meets the latest Technologies
Upper Austria celebrates 200 years of Anton Bruckner in 2024. From February, you can experience the world of the famous composer in an unprecedented way at the Ars Electronica Centre!
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TIME OUT .12 – Timebased and Interactive Media Arts meets Ars Electronica
Interactive installations, film experiments, visual & sonic arts, applications for Deep Space 8K and performances: TIME OUT .12 opens on WED 11/22/2023 with young media art from Linz.
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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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Masterpieces of the past and a journey through Venice
What do artists like Picasso, da Vinci, Goya, Santos and the city of Venice have in common? – They are part of our Cultural Heritage program and can be admired during the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Digital Literacy – Learning with and about technology
After a COVID-19 driven digitalization push, ChatGPT is currently rocking the established habitus of teaching methods and learning objectives. How can we teach learning with “future technologies”?
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ChatGPT: An Interview with an Artificial Intelligence
From May 11, 2023, you can get a feel for ChatGPT in our newly adapted main exhibition “Understanding AI”. We tried it out and asked the AI a few questions.
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Compass reloaded! Navigating the Future
On Thursday, May 11, 2023, we will open the new exhibition “Compass reloaded! Navigating the Future” at the Ars Electronica Center!
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Via algorithm into a virtual parallel reality
With “Horst Schlager,” the Ars Electronica Center infiltrates a media art figure into Facebook’s extremist underground in order to understand and communicate political grievances.
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Play the Façade is back
Animations – light – music: You decide how to use the Ars Electronica Center’s media façade as a public canvas!
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Society? That’s us!
It’s the third pillar of Ars Electronica, and we’re all a part of it: In part three of our annual review, we’ll tell you what the “Society” in our name stands for.
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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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A glimpse into the past
The new exhibition about the Kepler Observatory at the Ars Electronica Center shows that amateur astronomers can still contribute to scientific achievements today.
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Me and the Machines
Since September, the new exhibition “Me and the Machines” has been awaiting you at the Ars Electroncia Center.
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Life Ink: On the trail of creativity
Opening at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022: The brand-new Life Ink exhibition aims to explore the secrets of creativity.
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STARTS Day: Artistic Innovation and Musical Visions
What are the highlights of the Friday of the Ars Electronica Festival? We’ll give you some interesting insights into the packed program.
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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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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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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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Futurelab – Prototype of a think-and-do tank
Cuba visits Linz: A delegation from the Cuban Computer Science Union finds inspiration in the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s unique concept.
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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.