Ars Electronica Festival
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Hannes Leopoldseder: A Life Lived for the Future
He was a co-founder of the Ars Electronica Festival, invented the Prix Ars Electronica, initiated the construction of the Ars Electronica Center and, as a longstanding member of the Supervisory Board, helped shape the development of Ars Electronica to the end. Hannes Leopoldseder passed away at the age of 80 on February 12, 2021.
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Networked archives and a glimpse into the future
Coronavirus, home office and a hacker attack. What followed was a project of increased collaboration, a dedicated conference at the Ars Electronica Festival and, for the first time, a virtual room in Mozilla Hubs. 2020 was an exciting year for the Ars Electronica archive, which is now available again in its online version, strengthened.
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Future Ink: Where is my soul?
Future Ink is the result of a mutual inspiration between art and science, with the aim of exploring the creative potential of “ink”. In a process of multiple steps consisting of the implementation of the innovative concepts for Space Ink, AI Ink, Bio Ink, Mind Ink and Body Ink, Space Ink research opens new accesses…
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Home Delivery Conference: About Minecraft Universities and Digital Museums
On the Thursday of the festival, the Home Delivery Conference will be dedicated to the cultural aspects of digital space, presenting projects such as the first Minecraft University, the Museum of the Future and a dedicated domain for the art world. This is just one of the numerous thematic focuses in our wide range of…
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Ars Electronica Gardens: EUROPE Part 2
Human life in the uncertainty of the days: It seems impossible to understand the world in its complexity, as every action, no matter how inconspicuous, influences life on the other side of the world. The thing with the butterfly effect…
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Strolling Between the Disciplines
The JKU campus as a place of encounter and as a place for projects that can only be discovered by strolling through the park and looking attentively into the air. JKU LIT @ Ars Electronica as well as the Garden Exhibition in Kepler’s Garden on the JKU Campus feature playful projects that combine various disciplines.
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BIO AUSTRIA: Back to the Regional
The Regional has recently experienced a new upswing as a result of the Corona crisis, especially when it comes to food. The BIO AUSTRIA Farmers’ Market once again invites visitors to the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz to taste these regional products.
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THE WILD STATE
A prairie in the Wild West, a futuristic pirate island on the ocean, people dancing at Burning Man – what images emerge in front of your inner eye when you hear THE WILD STATE?
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A Look at the Civil Society of the Future
Civil society engagement is crucial for our pluralistic, open and solidary society. The ULF symposium on Saturday of the Ars Electroncia Festival 2020 will be all about the future of this very civil society.
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Ars Electronica Gardens: EUROPE Part 1
And our festival journey continues! Not too far away from Austria there are countless exciting exhibitions: in the city of love – Paris, the coastal city – Liepāja, the ancient metropolis – Athens, or the central heart of the EU – Brussels! Welcome to the gardens of Europe!
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Ars Electronica Gardens: ASIA
Part 2 of our trip around the world, during which we’d like to introduce you to some of the Ars Electronica Gardens and their programs, takes us to the east, towards the rising sun: It’s off to Asia!
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Meinhard Lukas: From the Postcity into Kepler’s Gardens
It was the site of the old post distribution center at the main train station, where the magicians of Ars Electronica transformed an analog yesterday into a digital tomorrow. In no other place and in no other time has Linz ever been more urban and international than in the Postcity.
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“When innovation meets sustainability”
Since 2019, Ars Electronica has been equipped with IT devices by AfB – Arbeit für Menschen mit Behinderung. At this year’s festival, too, they’re supporting us with PCs and other equipment. Find out more about how this cooperation was established in this blog post!
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Deep Space 8K – Festival Program
A breathtaking piano piece, a virtual and real performance or a journey back to Roman times, this year’s Deep Space 8K festival program offers all this and much more. Let’s take a closer look into it!
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„Look beyond the boundaries of our own organization“
What do a plastics manufacturer and a festival for art, technology and society have in common? A lot, as the long-standing successful cooperation between Greiner AG and Ars Electronica proves.
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CyberArts 2020: The latest trends in media art
For over three decades, the Prix Ars Electronica has been one of the world’s most coveted awards for digital media art. With the CyberArts exhibition, the OK, as part of the newly founded OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, will once again devote itself to the award-winning works of international artists during the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival in…
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Travel Tips For Ars Electronica 2020 / Part 2
Welcome to the other side of the “Pacific Ocean” and the second part of our journey around the world! Welcome to the “New World”, more precisely on the west coast of the USA, in the 70 kilometre long and 30 kilometre wide Santa Clara Valley. Don’t you know it? Yes, but under a different name…
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Ars Electronica Gardens: AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Ars Electronica has a long-term and intensive relationship with the other end of the world. Not only do employees, researchers and friends from there keep coming back to the company and the network, a ” satellite office ” has even been established – Ars Electronica Australia. Here as there, the vision is to support the…
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These Are The Travel Tips For Ars Electronica 2020
The starting point: Kepler’s Garden in Linz, Austria. The destinations: 120 locations around the globe. The duration of the journey: 9 to 13 September 2020.
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Tattoo Sensors and Code Poems – Future of Sanity?
The Ö1 project “Repairing the Future” raises questions such as: Can we rethink and redesign the future with our innovative ideas? And can we use these ideas to bring new concepts to life that do not exist yet? Definitely!
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.art Domains and Ars Electronica Launch Online Exhibition for the Festival 2020
In response to the global pandemic and its impact, the leading new media arts festival Ars Electronica will premiere a dual format for its 2020 edition, including an online showcase in addition to the physical event. Ars Electronica has partnered with .art Domains to inaugurate Ars Electronica .ART Gallery, one of the online arms of…
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The Kepler Hall hosts the STARTS Prize 2020
The festival takes place! Not despite, but because of Corona. For months a global pandemic has been raising questions that we hadn’t asked ourselves before – but which will most likely keep us busy for a long time to come.
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„A Place Where You Can Lose Yourself“
Ars Electronica 2020 is a journey to measure the ‘new’ world and a journey through “Kepler’s Gardens”, which are located in Linz at the JKU Campus and at 120 other locations worldwide. We introduce you to the Garden Linz in more detail.
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STARTS Prize 2020: A Virtual Journey Through the Time Zones
Three members of the STARTS Prize 2020 jury, Mara Balestrini, Clara Blume and Domhnaill Hernon, talk in an interview about the influence of Covid-19 on this year’s jury process, the difference between design and art, recycling management and the usefulness of Excel lists.
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Women in Media Arts: Does AI think like a (white) man?
“Women in Media Arts” is an Ars Electronica database specifically dedicated to women in media arts. In this series, we introduce you to female media artists and their work, starting with the question: Does AI think like a (White) man?
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Patient Bonsai
A entire tree with branches and leaves, but as small as a potted plant: a bonsai becomes the symbol of “In Vivo”, which illuminates the border region between life and death. Behind it are the two artists Ernest Wu and Jake Tan from Singapore, who are working on their interactive installation as part of the…
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40 Years of Humanizing Technology: How Technology shapes our Society
Technology as an essential human invention or as a self-runner that will overtake us in the future? The exhibition “40 Years of Humanizing Technology – Art, Technology and Society”, organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing (CAFA) and Ars Electronica, deals with the question of the antithesis between man and technology that has…
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Women’s Networks in Arts & Technology
Elena Robles Mateo talks about her research project to portray networks of women in media art since the 1990s, and in her work has referred to the Women in Media Arts database of Ars Electronica, among others.