Ars Electronica Festival
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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.
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Future Innovators Summit: Innovative thinkers wanted!
For the fifth time, the Future Innovators Summit at the Ars Electronica Festival is looking for the ultimate creative questions. The Open Call by Hakuhodo and Ars Electronica is aimed at artists, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, social activists and philosophers. Hideaki Ogawa reports on what awaits the participants this September in Linz. The deadline for…
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u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD: Alternative Teaching and Learning
u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD, the Future Festival of the Next Generation staged annually at the Ars Electronica Festival, showcases the ideas and technologies young people are deploying to change our world. This interview offers a preview of some of the great stuff you’ll be able to see, try out and explore September 6-10, 2018.
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BR41N.IO Hackathon: Eat, Sleep, Hack, Repeat!
24 hours—that’s all the time allotted to hackers and artists for the completion of their brain-computer interface projects during the BR41N.I0 Hackathon September 8-9, 2018 at the Ars Electronica Festival. To find out what awaits you at this year’s Hackathon set amidst a media art conclave, read on.
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BitSoil: My Data, your Profits? No, thank you!
Every click and every post on the Internet generates data. The Digital Economy is making billions with our actions on the web and concentrating these profits in the hands of a few. A completely unsatisfactory situation, say LarbitsSisters and initiated the BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign.
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Animation Screening: The Best of Computer Animation
Eight themed programs showcasing the best works submitted this year for Prix Ars Electronica prize consideration have been lined up for Animation Screening at the 2018 Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10). We talked to curator Jürgen Hagler to learn more.
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Bellingcat: Looking for Traces in the Digital Environment
On the online platform Bellingcat, citizen journalists are looking for the “echoes and ripples” in the digital environment when events like the MH17 incident or war crimes like those in Syria become known. The founder of Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, talks in an interview about the project, which was recently awarded the Golden Nica, and gives…
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The first 3-D printed steel bridge
By building the world’s first 3-D printed metal bridge, MX3D and the Joris Laarman Lab have provided proof that the MX3D process they have jointly developed makes it possible to create metal objects and structures of any size that are aesthetically pleasing as well as intelligent. They were awarded the STARTS Prize of the European…
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I’m Humanity: Music for Eternity
Her idea for a way to make music live on beyond humankind’s eventual extinction and to use DNA as the medium to transport this information for eternity garnered Japanese musician Etsuko Yakushimaru the 2017 STARTS Prize. In this interview, she explains her concept of “post-humanity music” and gives her take on mutations that randomly occur…
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Error – The Art of Imperfection
“Error – The Art of Imperfection” is the theme of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival that’s set for September 6-10 with POSTCITY as its hub. Gerfried Stocker, artistic director of Ars Electronica, talked to us about the festival theme, how we deal with mistakes, and errors as a source of innovation.
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“K-9_topology”: On Humans, Dogs and Bioethics
“K-9_topology,” a series of works by Slovenian artist Maja Smrekar, won last year’s Golden Nica in the Prix Ars Electronica’s Hybrid Arts category. In this interview, Maja Smrekar explains what’s behind these four projects, how dogs and wolves characterize her work, and which ethical questions she investigates.
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Who or what is on the line? Find out via “Hello Machine”!
The “Hello Machine” is an installation connecting the Ars Electronica Festival Linz, Science Gallery Dublin and Volkswagen Berlins Drive Exhibition, has been developed with the assistance of the Ars Electronica FutureLab, by way of vintage or obsolete pay phones from Hanlon’s collection. The Hello Machine’s ‘Hello Machine – Hello Human’ feature touches on the playful…
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Day 5: ‘Til We Meet Again at the Ars Electronica Festival!
Sad but true—the fifth and final day of the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival has come to a close. Amazing how time flies when you’re having fun at so many absorbing events! We sincerely hope you checked off everything on your to-do list. Here’s a brief retrospective look at Day 5.
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Day 4: Jam-Packed with Highlights
The 2017 Ars Electronica Festival is already four days old. And Sunday as well lived up to high expectations with a great lineup of conferences, workshops, media art, performances and much more. The most noteworthy event was undoubtedly Markus Poschner’s premiere as chief conductor of Linz’s Bruckner Orchester. But let’s take this one step at…
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This was the Ars Electronica Festival 2017
“Artificial Intelligence – the Other I”, or the connection between AI and humans was the main topic at the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival, which turned POSTCTITY Linz into a hotspot of media arts for the third time in a row this year. There were over 100.000 visits to over 600 different events, conferences and lectures,…
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Day 3: Starting the weekend with Media Art
Our festival Saturday made an exciting start into the weekend: With the Helper’s Conference, the final hours of the Hackathon, an organic farmer’s market, the Expanded Animations Symposium, the Prix and STARTS Forums, and of course countless exhibitions full of state-of-the-art media art, the festival was once again filled to the brim with wonderful events.…
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Day 2: Impressions without an End
Thinking together, celebrating together. From conferences to ceremonies, from exhibitions to workshops, from VR glasses to brain-computer interfaces. Another inspiring impressions from the 2nd festival day.
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Day 1: Welcome to the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival
The big day has finally arrived—this year’s Ars Electronica Festival is underway! The preparations had been going full speed ahead for months now to once again make this huge celebration of media art something absolutely extraordinary. And that’s exactly what has come to pass! Here, for your viewing pleasure, are a few impressions of the…