Exhibitions
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DuoSkin: Like a Second Skin
Nice metallic tattoo or modern on skin interface? Based on the aesthetics of temporary skin jewelry on skin, DuoSkin creates devices that allow users to control their mobile devices or display and store information on their skin. The project is currently part of Ars Electronica’s “human (un)limited” exhibition in Beijing.
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The Ars Electronica Salon at Matsudo International Science Art Festival
From November 16 to 17, the Ars Electronica Futurelab will be a guest at the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo, Japan with the Ars Electronica Salon, exploring the theme “Future Citizen.” We learned more about it in this interview.
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Exploring human limits
Thanks to our creativity and inventiveness, what limits have we overcome and made the supposedly impossible possible? What consequences does this have for us, for our self-image and for the importance we attach to ourselves in the world? What old and new limits do we reach despite all our successes – as individuals and as…
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The best festival tips for: Linzers and Companions
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for Linzers and Companions.
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The best festival tips for: Activists
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for activists.
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The best festival tips for: Art Enthusiasts
More than 540 events with more than 1400 artists at 16 locations in and around Linz will be taking place at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. To make it a little easier for you to choose, we have summarized the best festival tips for art enthusiasts.
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So many gorgeous ideas
Festival Friday is STARTS day – or rather S+T+ARTS, because the magic formula is Science + Technology + ARTS. Exactly in this connection lies a powerful potential for innovation, to consider the innovations of our time on various levels and to think socially, ecologically and economically.
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The infinite spaces of the POSTCITY
One last time the Ars Electronica Festival takes place in the POSTCITY. One last time, the festival takes over new spaces and locations in this abandoned postal distribution center. Martin Honzik explains what’s new this year.
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With OK│CyberArts 2019 on the pulse of time
Every year, the OK im OÖ Kulturquartier exhibition takes on its role as a visionary observatory and uses international media art projects that received awards at the 2019 Prix Ars Electronica to showcase the trends and current developments of our time.
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Human Limitations – Limited Humanity: The Possibility of Going Beyond Borders
At the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival, artists from all over the world fill the POSTCITY bunker with media art. This year’s projects will be exploring the question of human limitations with different approaches.
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From Chile to the Ars Electronica Festival
After a successful debut at last year’s Ars Electronica Festival, they will be back again this year: Selected media artworks by Chilean artists are again part of an extensive program of guest projects to be shown in Linz from September 5 to 9, 2019.
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Understanding AI – a place to experience artificial intelligence
For the new exhibition “Understanding AI” at the Ars Electronica Center, a team of researchers, artists, and developers from Ars Electronica Futurelab designed installations that explain how artificial intelligence actually works. Learn more about it in this interview.
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“Ars and the City”: In the City, with the City, for the City
What has Ars Electronica done in the city, with the city and for the city? The exhibition “Ars and the City” at the LENTOS Kunstmuseum will explore these questions during the festival on the occasion of this year’s 40th anniversary of Ars Electronica.
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“The PERI elements are like Lego”
To build an 80,000 square metre abandoned industrial area with structures that enable media art. The architects Jürgen Haller and Christoph Weidinger are once again taking on this seemingly unsolvable task this year at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019 in POSTCITY.
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“Today they would be called programmers”
Since June 25, the Ars Electronica Center has been hosting the new “AI X Music” exhibition, which deals with the interaction between artificial intelligence and music as well as the encounter between human creativity and technical perfection. In this interview, Marianne Kneidinger and Gertraud Koblmiller from the Mechanische Klangfabrik Haslach explain the role played by…
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“Humans can determine their own evolution”
With innovative tools such as CRISPR/Cas9, humans can dive deeper into the development of life ever before and change it according to their own ideas. Manuel Selg from FH OÖ Campus Wels will talk about what this is all about and what has happened since the first BioLab was set up at the Ars Electronica…
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Just for Fun? Playful learning!
Feel young again? The Family Days at the Ars Electronica Center offer adults a mental rejuvenation cure through a fresh, young approach to current topics and give children and teenagers the freedom to breathe life into Artificial Intelligence with pleasure and in the self-experiment.
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We (re)build for the future
Everything has to go! In 2019, everything at the Ars Electronica Center will be new. Once again, Ars Electronica is leaving the comfort zone with a large-scale architectural and thematic reconstruction of the exhibition, “tearing (almost) everything down”…
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10 years since the major renovation: Ars Electronica Center
It was exactly 10 years ago that the Ars Electronica Center was first renovated and expanded. The small two-story building next to the Danube became the Museum of the Future that we now know – including new, large exhibition areas in the basement. Now everything in the Ars Electronica Center is going to be completely…
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“ERROR – The Art of Imperfection” in Berlin
Ars Electronica goes Berlin – for the seventh time in a row! The latest exhibition at DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum is on until March 3, 2019, showing artistic projects that grapple with the theme “ERROR – The Art of Imperfection.”
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Interactive and time-based: TIME OUT .09
When Professor Gerhard Funk and his students are increasingly to be found in the Ars Electronica Center instead of at the Art University of Linz, it can only mean one thing: TIME OUT is making its way into the Museum of the Future again. The latest edition of the exhibition opens on November 15, 2018…
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Future Humanity – Our Shared Planet: Is this the future?
In November 2018, Ars Electronica and Hyundai Motor Group will open three exhibitions around the world on the theme of “Future Humanity – Our Shared Planet”. The shows at Hyundai Motor Studios in Moscow, Seoul and Beijing will artistically examine what it means to be human in the future. We found out more in this…
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Solutions in Leoben: A mine tour, a wire-rolling mill, and a beer museum
From an adventurous trip in a Hauly through the Erzberg mine to an interactive tour of the world’s most modern wire-rolling mill – the Ars Electronica Solutions projects in Leoben could hardly offer more variety. Get an overview in this interview.
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Silent Night 200: The anniversary exhibition
For the exhibition “Silent Night 200“ at the Salzburg Museum, Ars Electronica Futurelab has created three media installations. In this interview you can find out what to expect at the exhibition.
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More Media Art for Leoben!
From a park bench that likes to chat to a gigapixel image on the Maßenburg observation platform—Ars Electronica Solutions developed several installations for Kunsthalle Leoben that connect the museum to the surrounding cityscape. We found out more in this interview.
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The Bien: Absence in Wax and Concrete
“The Bien” by Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer portrays an extinct bee colony—doing so in terms of its absence. The work will be on display in Linz’s Mariendom cathedral during the Ars Electronica Festival September 6-10, 2018. Find out more in this interview.
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Group Show Featuring Media Art from Chile
A special guest project is being showcased at the Ars Electronica Festival (September 6-10, 2018). An open call was issued to Chilean media artists, researchers, designers and activists to submit works to be shown at the Festival. Five projects were chosen and will appear in Linz in September.
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A Journey of Discovery of Time: Himatsubushi
Even the roof of POSTCITY Linz is a festival venue this year. Visitors to an exhibition entitled “Himatsubushi – the Art of Time Killing” will stroll, lost in thought, across the sundeck, above old spiral packet chutes, and through previously undiscovered conveyor belt units. To find out what’s up at Himatsubushi September 6-10, 2018, take…