art & science
Plan B Day: Creating Future Together
The Saturday of the festival awaits you with numerous inspirations for jointly taking steps towards a future in which we meet inevitable challenges as a global community.
Controlled / Uncontrolled: when dancing to chaos
Can you dance uncontrollably to electronic music? And can you follow the rhythm after a while to bring yourself back under control? un ctrl knows!
STARTS Day: Artistic Innovation and Musical Visions
What are the highlights of the Friday of the Ars Electronica Festival? We'll give you some interesting insights into the packed program.
Opening Day: Highlights and Insights
The first day of the Ars Electronica Festival awaits you with exciting performances and lots of art, technology and new inspirations.
Art from Asia: The 4th VH Award
International art and diversity are one of the many key aspects of the Ars Electronica Festival. A project that showcases these components in Linz is the 4th edition of the VH Award.
Leonardo's Mona Lisa in 8K
It is our great pleasure to announce that once again this year, one of the world's most famous works of art will embellish our Deep Space 8K screen during the Ars Electronica Festival: the Mona Lisa!
Digital transformation – for whom?
Who benefits from digital transformation and who should own it? – Questions the Art Thinking Forum Tokyo was asking.
Deep Space EVOLUTION: Virtual Anatomy
A fascinating journey through the human body turns anatomy data into an immersive 3D experience in Ars Electronica Center.
Matsudo – A city of inspiration
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2021: How a Japanese city and its creative community cultivate the future.
Future Christmas
Whether Christmas hurry or Advent lockdown, we have a suitable program for a contemplative pre-Christmas time: The Virtual Crib from St. Mary's Cathedral in Linz.
Creative collaboration with microscopic organisms
A chemical reaction chamber allows researchers in the second phase of the Bio Ink experiment to interact with living artworks as they grow.
Bio Ink - Co-Creation with nature
Co-creating artworks together with microscopic organisms has an impact on how we perceive the world, the way we live, and what it means to be alive.
A Picnic for a positive future
The "School of the Future -OPEN STUDIO-" in Tokyo Midtown invites visitors to the spacious garden of Tokyo Midtown for a "Future Picnic" in the greenery to reunite the people of the metropolis with themselves and nature after a year of distance.
Digitization of cultural heritage
For the most recent digitization project, too, a Gothic tomb from the collegiate church of Wilhering, researchers of the Ars Electronica Futurelab successfully used the non-contact method of photogrammetry.
Sneak peek into the future
In this video tour of the "Alchemists of the Future" exhibition, Hideaki Ogawa takes you on an extraordinary journey into the future.
Deck 50: New Science Communication Platform at the Vienna Natural History Museum
By the means of Citizen Science, a new laboratory and workshop area, interactive research stations and immersive worlds in Deck 50 awaken the researcher's instinct in visitors and invite to engage.
Where science meets society
Deck 50 at the Vienna Museum of Natural History: In a world facing great challenges, we should all understand that science affects the whole of society — and it has to motivate people.
Ideas for the Future
Our world is in flux and no one knows exactly where it’s headed. But one thing is certain: In times like these, with the future coming at us at top speed, what we really need are good ideas.
Alchemists of the Future
The DNA of the Ars Electronica Futurelab in the eighth and final episode of the 25th Anniversary Series
Art Thinking
There are difficult questions waiting for creative answers
Humanity and Robotinity
A society that is changing along with its technology needs a new form of humanity
Alchemists of the Future — The Book
25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab: It’s a year full of memories — of stories and concepts, of successes and challenges. Of visions, ideas and utopias.
Creative (Artificial) Intelligence
What differentiates analog from digitally generated work?
Directors Talk – 25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab and beyond
We all shape future - constantly. In the process, we are confronted with major challenges, from the climate crisis to digital transformation.
The Art of Swarms
The Spaxels were just the beginning of a long journey into the future of the Ars Electronica Futurelab
Poetic Systems
How art can make complex structures tangible
ORIBOKIT™ How to build robotic origami
With Oribokit™, a DIY kit for origami robots, Matthew Gardiner aims to collectively cross the boundaries between art and science towards the future.
Computation and Beyond
How can we inspire people to actively design our common future?
Digital Humanism: Teaching and learning through an artistic lens
Education is one of the core aspects of the European Platform for Digital Humanism, which is only natural, as historically education has always been fundamental to what we understand humanism to be.
Challenging the Human Perspective
How to address the biodiversity and climate crisis through collaborative and innovative art-driven approaches.
