Ars Electronica Festival 2018
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Group Show Featuring Media Art from Chile
A special guest project is being showcased at the Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10, 2018). An open call was issued to Chilean media artists, researchers, designers and activists to submit works to be shown at the Festival. Five projects were chosen and will appear in Linz in September.
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Banish the Fear of Making Mistakes: Claudia Novak
At the Ars Electronica Festival’s Get Inspired innovation forum on September 6th, Claudia Novak, a communications expert and TEDxLinz curator, will discuss why we urgently need more transparency in our dealings with errors. We talked to her about failure and how to handle it.
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The best festival tips for: Art Enthusiasts
With over 500 events by more than 1000 artists, scientists, activists and experts from a wide variety of fields, the 2018 Ars Electronica Festival has something for every interest. In this article, you will find our tips for absolute art fans.
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Fashion & Technology: The Future of Fashion
A new ongoing focal-point topic is making its debut at the Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10, 2018). In cooperation with Linz Art University’s Fashion & Technology program and the Austrian Center for Fashion Research, Ars Electronica will host a process of reflection on fashion’s connection with technology. Program co-director Christiane Luible told us more in…
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Diving into Deep Space with Noise Aquarium
Current scientific studies have shown with shocking examples that noise sources such as sonar and fracking are extremely harmful to large marine life. Noise also affects microscopic organisms such as plankton, as Victoria Vesna and her collaborators show in their interactive installation in Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Festival 2018, where Victoria Vesna…
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Refugee Camps as Proving Grounds for New Technologies: Ariana Dongus
At the Ars Electronica Festival Theme Symposium on September 7, 2018, author Ariana Dongus will talk about how the UNHCR’s refugee camps are becoming test labs for collecting biometric data. In this interview, she discusses biometrics, responsibility and immaterial labor.
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Symposium: Perspectives on Political Education
The 3rd annual Perspectives on Political Education symposium will be held at the Ars Electronica Festival on Thursday, September 6, 2018. This year’s theme is “Fresh, Courageous, Demanding – Self-empowerment through Peer Education?” To learn more, read on!
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Chairs and Tables for a Good Cause: Social Furniture
A very special contribution to the interior décor at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival is being made by Social Furniture, a project in which refugees work together with Austrian mentors to construct wooden furnishings. After the festival, these chairs, benches and tables will be donated to refugees and NGOs.
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Yummy, Local, Organic: The Farmers’ Market at the Festival
The aroma of fresh bread and Upper Austrian regional delicacies will waft amongst busy festivalgoers in POSTCITY Linz once again on Saturday, September 8, 2018, the day of the BIO AUSTRIA Farmers’ Market. We got a foretaste in this interview.
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Guided Tours through the Festival: WE GUIDE YOU 2018
It’s one of the world’s largest media art festivals, so, of course, getting your bearings can be a bit of a challenge! To facilitate visitor orientation at the Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10, 2018), we’re once again offering an interesting array of guided tours. You get the details in this interview.
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A Journey of Discovery of Time: Himatsubushi
Even the roof of POSTCITY Linz is a festival venue this year. Visitors to an exhibition entitled “Himatsubushi – the Art of Time Killing” will stroll, lost in thought, across the sundeck, above old spiral packet chutes, and through previously undiscovered conveyor belt units. To find out what’s up at Himatsubushi September 6-10, 2018, take…
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Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Festival 2018: Never call him a movie theater!
“Never call the Deep Space 8K a movie theater!” This year, too, we are taking this motto seriously at the Ars Electronica Festival from September 6 to 10, 2018, and will be presenting a series of new, fascinating visualizations that go far beyond a cinematic experience on the five days of the festival.
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Academy of Error: Antimatter Physicist Michael Doser
The Academy of Error at the 2018 Ars Electronica Festival is bringing international experts in science and research to Linz to reflect on how to come to terms with error. Michael Doser, an antimatter physicist at CERN who will moderate this event on September 9th, gave us a few advance insights into mistakes, research and…
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Creative Artificial Intelligence: Style Transfer
Style transfer technology, actually a byproduct of deep learning, is the main attraction here. In “Creative AI – Style Transfer,” artist-researcher Ali Nikrang shows how artificial neural networks transform a video into an artistic-picturesque world. You can see it at the Ars Electronica Festival September 6-10, 2018.
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The 2018 Festival Theme In-Depth: Theme Conferences
Panel discussions, speeches and conferences staged over the course of three days will take a theoretical approach to Error – the Art of Imperfection, the theme of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival, September 6-10, 2018. Artistic director Gerfried Stocker and project manager Karla Spiluttini give us a preview in this interview.
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CyberArts 2018: Showcase of Artistic Excellence
The CyberArts Exhibition—as always at the OK Center for Contemporary Art—features the 2018 Prix Ars Electronica prizewinners. This interview provides a preview of the fascinating works on display during the Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10, 2018) and the 6 days thereafter.
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AI and Robotics: “Imperfect Versions of Our Own Minds”
“The Fractured Mirror,” anthropologist and digital ethnographer Beth Singler’s talk at the Ars Electronica Festival’s Theme Symposium on September 7, 2018, will elaborate on artificial intelligence’s effects on us human beings. She gives us an introduction to her topic in this interview.
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Day of Encouragement: ZusammenHelfen Conference
This is the third consecutive year that ZusammenHelfen in Oberösterreich (HelpingTogether in Upper Austria) is staging a conference at the Ars Electronica Festival in POSTCITY Linz. On September 8, 2018 at 10:00, the focus will be on encouraging those providing aid to refugees. You can find out more in this interview.
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Innovative Help after a Stroke: Bugfix the Brain
Therapy that makes progress even years after a stroke, improved motor functions, and high-tech aids for everyday life—an Upper Austrian firm named g.tec makes it happen. To find out why g.tec’s technologies produce such impressive results and how to try them out at the Ars Electronica Festival September 6-10, 2018, read this interview!
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The Big Fire Brigade Challenge: Emergency Error Battle
A state of emergency prevails among POSTCITY’s bank of spiral packet chutes! The Big Fire Brigade Challenge will go down on Saturday, September 8th amidst the 2018 Ars Electronica Festival. To find out how new technologies can be brought into play at a conventional rescue & extinguish exercise, read this interview.
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Campus: More Colleges than Ever at the Festival
The Ars Electronica campus has long become a festival mainstay. Twenty-four universities have registered this year – reason enough to briefly recount the development of the Campus format and to report on which guest universities will be in Linz from September 6 to 10, 2018.
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Featured Artist: Elisabeth Schimana
Where are all the women in electronic music? This question has been posed since the 1990s by Elisabeth Schimana, a music pioneer who’s the Featured Artist at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival September 6-10, 2018. In Linz, she’ll present “Hidden Alliances,” a selection of her works on this subject.
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Between Mistake and Fake: The 2018 Theme Exhibition
An extensive exhibition is dedicated to Error – the Art of Imperfection, this year’s theme of the Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10, 2018). This show, divided into two parts, is a protracted encounter with mistakes, deviations from the norm, and fakes. This interview tells how scientific and artistic perspectives are confronting one another here, and…
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Media Art on the Art Market: Gallery Spaces
Difficulties with maintenance, obsolete technologies or a lack of understanding of how high-tech works—media art confronts the classic art market with numerous challenges. Gallery Spaces at the Ars Electronica Festival September 6-10, 2018 will host exhibitions and panel discussions elaborating on these facts & circumstances.
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Beyond Danceable: Ars Electronica Nightline
Nightline at the Ars Electronica Festival invites you to dance the night away once again this year. On September 7, 2018, the railroad loading dock (Gleishalle) at POSTCITY Linz will provide just the right ambience for Electro music. For details, read on.
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Please Recharge: On Sustainability and Deceleration
The Campus Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10, 2018) by Linz Art University’s Interface Cultures program takes a step back from the hustle & bustle of modern mass media. The theme of “Please Recharge” is pervasive media overload. To find out more, read this interview with program director Christa Sommerer.
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Campus Exhibition 2018: Taking Care
The annual Campus Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10, 2018) will feature works by students in the Hexagram international network. The exhibition entitled “Taking Care” shows what forms research-creation can take in media art and digital culture. Curator Anna Kerekes gives us a sneak preview in this interview.
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“Notary of an Epoch”: BEEP Electronic Art Collection in the Gallery Spaces
The BEEP Electronic Art Collection will exhibit selected works in the Gallery Spaces at the Ars Electronica Festival September 6-10, 2018. In this interview, Director Vicente Matallana talks about media art on the art market and the challenges his work entails.