Once again, the Ars Electronica Festival has shown what it is all about: creating space, time and an atmosphere in which people can exchange ideas and inspire each other.
What is the role of art festivals like Ars Electronica? What do they have to do and for whom? For good reason, the vast majority of answers to these questions focus on the audience. However, another key target group is often overlooked: the artists themselves.
Artists honoured with the CIFO x Ars Electronica Award address environmental problems and present innovative projects.
“You are part of a huge weave, that you cannot ignore anymore.” When you enter Diane Cescutti’s website and her work, you enter the world of weaving.
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.
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.
Under the title HOPE, the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 will focus on the people who give us cause for optimism.
Data art transforms complex data into interactive, aesthetic works of art. In “Pulse of the EPO”, the Berlin duo Quadrature uses patent data to explore social and cosmic boundaries.
In our interview with Prof. Dietmar Offenhuber, we find out how important interdisciplinary approaches are in research and what role data plays in a digitalised world.
The year is coming to an end, but before it does we want to look back on a year of creativity, challenge and inspiration.
As last year, State of the ART(ist) 2023, now with a broader focus, aims to provide visibility to artists in precarious situations.
The inventor of the Klangwolke is dead. An obituary for Walter Haupt, who died in Munich on May 17, 2023 at the age of 88.
For the third round of the ArtScience Residency Rainald Schumacher met artist Špela Petrič, the winner of the 2023 edition, for an interview.
How can we use AI as a creative resource in the future? An audiovisual interpretation of an AI composition invites reflection.
When creativity becomes visible: a unique performance of pianist Maki Namekawa, visualized live by her brain waves and body signals.
Ars Electronica Festival 2022: In a world where neuro-wearables and brain-computer interfaces will soon be ubiquitous, we should also talk about “NeuroRights.”
What rights do you have in the location of your residence? In his work, artist Irakli Sabekia deals with the spatial and social memory of people who have been forcefully displaced.
We are convinced that we need art as a space where contradictions can be possible. But how do you deal with these contradictions in times of war? What influence does this have on curation and how does one implement the theme of political persecution in an Open Call?
What does the melting of Antarctica have to do with the future of planet Earth? A lot – and that’s exactly why Giulia Foscari and UNLESS, in the work “Antarctic Resolution”, awarded the STARTS Prize 2022, have called for saving Antarctica and say: “Speak up for Antarctica now!”
“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.
Gustav Klimt and Rebecca Merlic placed the image of the woman at the centre of their artistic work – an analysis.
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.
How do origami and robotics create music? The Ars Electronica Futurelab’s new video presents the world of oribotic instruments.
Philip Glass, the most famous representative of minimal music and longtime companion of Ars Electronica, celebrates his 85th birthday – we congratulate him!
The Prix Ars Electronica kicks off the New Year! For the 35th time in a row, the world’s most traditional media art competition is entering the next round.
Accordion Noise and Visual Performance 11°22’4”142°35’5” took us down to the deepest point of the Mariana Trench as part of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Night Performances in Deep Space 8K.