Ars Electronica Festival
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A Fall Down Memory Lane
A trip and a fall down memory lane, tracking the relationship of a couple from middle school into the afterlife. “The Hardest Part” is the winner of the AI in Art Award 2024.
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Art in the Storm of Flight
The project ‘Fluten der Freiheit’ highlights the moving and often life-threatening journey of refugees across the sea, bringing to life their risks and hopes in search of a better life.
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Taking Back Power: Patchwork Girl
The winner of the Digital Humanity Award sets an example against online exploitation and for women’s rights in the digital age.
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Fostering Plant Diversity Through Community Participation
The INCREASE project helps protect plant genetic resources by involving citizens in growing and tracking different types of beans, which boosts biodiversity and supports sustainable farming.
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“Waltz Symphony”: Of humans and machines
Artificial intelligence and classical music merge seamlessly in the Waltz Symphony project. Composition students develop innovative orchestral pieces in dialogue with the AI application Ricercar.
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Borderline of Hope
Eunji Kwon has been selected as the second curator in residence for the Curatorial Residency Program enabled by ARKO. In this guest post, she reflects on the Prix Ars Electronica jury weekend from her personal perspective.
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Beacons of hope in a changing world
Under the title HOPE, the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 will focus on the people who give us cause for optimism.
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A Conscientious Objector’s Unconventional Art Project
Artist Tom Bogaert on investing in “sin stocks” of arms manufacturers as an act of resistance against the logic of war
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Unveiling the biodiversity crisis through auditive art
An immersive audiovisual experience by the Ars Electronica Futurelab makes the loss of biodiversity tangible in an impressive way.
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Origami, robotics, and folding sound
World premiere for Oribotic Instruments with Anne Wichmann (She’s Excited), Miller Puckette, and Dan Wilcox at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Climate change as an immersive hell painting
Creativity meets scientific data: Artist Akira Wakita showed Mother Earth at the Ars Electronica Festival as an imposing entity beyond humankind.
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Ars Electronica Recap 2023: Unveiling Truths, Shaping Society and Innovating Education
As the year draws to a close, we look back on twelve months of intense social experiences, challenges, inspiring moments and exciting projects.
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Watch the best of Futurelab 2023
Exciting and innovative, playful and informative: 2023 has marked another year of unique projects for the public by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and its partners.
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Playful AI for collective transformation
Trust through transparency: AI start-up Godot and the Ars Electronica Futurelab showcase the humane use of AI.
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Future stories to bridge generations
The quick card game Bridge 2040 by the Ars Electronica Futurelab serves as a playful approach for future discourse between young and old.
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FOUNDING LAB Fall Term: Interdisciplinarity as a New Expertise
25 students and 21 fellows are currently testing jointly developed visions for the university of the future in Linz. The focus is on interdisciplinary and project-based work.
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Origami for social innovation: Ori Shelter
Foldable, affordable, self-sufficient and recycled – Chiara Croci shows at the Ars Electronica Futurelab how emergency shelters can be rethought.
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Resisting the logic of war: Objection
Hacking weaponry as an act of resistance: Ars Electronica Futurelab resident Tom Bogaert examined the intersections of politics, art and propaganda.
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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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Between Humans and Nature: an interview with Chiaochi Chou
FOUNDING LAB student Bart Kuipers had the chance to interview Chiaochi Chou (TW) and ask her about the work Synplant that she created together with Youyang Hu (CN) and Yasuaki Kakehi (JP).
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On the Art of Reinvention: A University Begins
As part of FOUNDING LAB, Ars Electronica and the Institute of Digital Sciences Austria commissioned 75 students from around the world to imagine a new university.
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Behind the Manifesto for Creative Producing – FOUNDING LAB Student Interview
In addition to participating as one of the selected 75 students in the FOUNDING LAB, Maria Kuzmina (IL) also facilitated a workshop within the frame of the Ars Electronica Festival 2023.
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The Transformation of Gender Binarism – FOUNDING LAB Student Interview
Mar Osés (ES) – one of the 75 FOUNDING LAB students – presenting a theoretical contextualization of the downfall of the gender system.
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Back in POSTCITY and through downtown Linz: That was the Ars Electronica Festival 2023!
Five days full of exhibitions, performances, lectures and events are behind us – in the unique location of POSTCITY and at 13 venues in downtown Linz.
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Media Art Galore on Day 5: Prix Ars Electronica Day
It wouldn’t be Ars Electronica if art didn’t have the last word…
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Dare-the-Truth Day: Day 4 of the Festival in Pictures
Accepting an inconvenient truth was what Day 4 of the Ars Electronica Festival was all about.
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Visual Highlights of Day 3 of the Ars Electronica Festival
This was Day 2 of the Ars Electronica Festival 2023 -S+T+ARTS Day – in pictures!
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Visual Highlights of Day 2 of the Ars Electronica Festival
This was Day 2 of the Ars Electronica Festival 2023 -S+T+ARTS Day – in pictures!