Ars Electronica Festival
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Festival University 2022: Future Takes Place in Linz
With literally red-hot topics, young visions and a public simulative trial, Festival University wants to take a step towards the future again this year.
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Von Schwarzen Schwänen …
… or pink doves? The Ars Electronica Festival’s Kunstunicampus attempts to think the seemingly impossible, to vision the unthinkable. Above all, the aim is to enable images and metaphors that carry a creative power within them and inspire us to create our own picture of our world.
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STUDIO(dys)TOPIA – At the Peak of Humankind
“STUDIO(dys)TOPIA” explores how humankind can transform sustainable practices into action and serves as a metaphor for our present, in which the concepts of dystopias and utopias find themselves in a changed reality.
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Sustainable to the Ars Electronica – is that possible?
How can a festival that attracts thousands of people to Linz every year be sustainable? Christl Baur, Head of Ars Electronica Festival, confronts the many questions of mobility.
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The slightly different café
This year, the Golden Nica in the Digital Communities category goes to Ory Yoshifuji, Co-founder CEO, Ory Laboratory Inc. for his project Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β.
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Holly+: Come and sing like Holly Herndon!
“It takes a village to create something special” and Holly Herndon and her team have succeeded in doing just that. In the interview, she presents her machine learning project in more detail, for which she has now received the European Commission’s STARTS Prize 2022.
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Throwback: Ready to pull the lifeline?
From September 2 to 11, 2010, the Ars Electronica Festival “REPAIR – Ready to pull the lifeline” took place on the grounds of the former tobacco factory in Linz
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It’s about trying out things
In this interview, Gerfried Stocker explains why it takes more than virtual meetings to get people talking and how the Ars Electronica Festival is trying to become sustainable and resource-conserving.
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Change is needed when there is no way out
From the hopelessness of the climate crisis to the thinking space of art – in this conversation with Gerfried Stocker, we take a closer look at the theme of the 2022 Ars Electronica Festival.
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The STARTS-Prize Jury in Linz
The international jury met for a weekend at the Ars Electronica Center to decide on the two winning projects for the STARTS Prize 2022.
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The Prix-Jury-Weekend 2022
Once again, 20 experts from around the world met in Linz to agree on the Golden Nicas of the Prix Ars Electronica 2022
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The Sky above Atacama: Chilean Artists at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022
The interaction between the Atacama sky and clouds with the local audience in Linz: these Chilean artists will represent their home country at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022.
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Throwback: The Teleklettergarten
An oversized computer keyboard as a climbing wall on the facade of the Linz Art University. That was the teleclimbing garden.
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Throwback: Liquid Cities
During the Ars Electronica Festival in 1996, the indoor pool of the Parkbad Linz transformed into a fluid interactive 3D space.
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Happy Birthday, Philip Glass!
Philip Glass, the most famous representative of minimal music and longtime companion of Ars Electronica, celebrates his 85th birthday – we congratulate him!
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Throwback: Morphovision
The Morphovision image processing system worked with real objects and opened up new possibilities for plastic design.
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How to manage an organization like Ars Electronica
This is the question posed by participants in a new training program for cultural producers that provides insights into the way Ars Electronica works.
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Throwback: Linz Steel Symphony
In 1980, electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze opened the Ars Electronica Festival with a concert of live recorded sounds from the Linz steelworks voestalpine.
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Refik Anadol: “Buildings can dream”
With his large-scale visualizations and animations, media artist Refik Anadol brings incomprehensible numbers and measurement data to life and returns them to the physical world.
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Deepfake: When the Moon Landing failed
Halsey Burgundy and Francesca Panetta discovered the prepared speech for U.S. President Nixon in the archives and recreated it in a deceptively realistic way.
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Throwback: A journey around the world in 80+1 days
On the occasion of the news about the passing of Linz09 artistic director Martin Heller, we travel back to the Capital of Culture year 2009 and take a look at the project “80+1 – A Journey around the World”.
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When Artists make use of Artificial Intelligence
The powerful tool “artificial intelligence” is increasingly finding its way into media art. Three artists talk about how they use AI and where they see their role as artists.
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Globally connected combating global climate change
How can a global communication tool like the Internet help to mobilize even more people to act together against climate change?
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Day 5 is Art Thinking Day
The last day of the festival is underway, and it’s a busy one. Art Thinking Day once again shines the spotlight on the artists, especially the Prix Ars Electronica winners.
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Day 4: Digital humanists of all countries, unite!
Anthropocene, data capitalism and big tech monopolies – only a few years back and the terms would have been either completely unknown or at least neglectable. Now, in the midst of the digital transformation, they are omnipresent and have given birth to the term “digital humanism”.
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A Quick Look at the 2021 Online Festival
A foray through the online offerings of the Ars Electronica Festival 2021, which this time will take place as a dual event.
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Day 3: Friday is New Digital Deal Day
Climate justice, sustainable digitization, solidarity and care, low-carbon design and education – all important ingredients for a new approach to the challenges of our time.
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Day 2: Welcome to Innovation Day
Thursday is all about innovation – in a whole series of panels, talks and symposia, experts from art, science and business meet and think ahead. At the same time, the exhibitions will present works that illustrate innovation in the 21st century.