For all those who could hardly wait, the eve of the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 offered a unique opportunity to get a breath of fresh festival air at several openings.
There are difficult questions waiting for creative answers
A society that is changing along with its technology needs a new form of humanity
The thirteenth and final edition of “Inside Festival” allows you a sneak peek behind-the-scenes of the festival preparations
What differentiates analog from digitally generated work?
We all shape future – constantly. In the process, we are confronted with major challenges, from the climate crisis to digital transformation.
In the twelfth edition of “Inside Festival”, Christl Baur and Manuela Hillmann will introduce five festival projects that are dedicated to a call for action.
720 tons of food are thrown away in a single day in Catalonia. It is figures like these that have prompted Anastasia Pistofidou, Marion Real and The Remixers of Fab Lab Barcelona, IaaC, to take action.
Christl Baur and Hortense Boulais-Ifrène dedicate the eleventh edition of Inside Festival to the topic of “Community” and present a total of four projects that address the topic from different perspectives.
There are hardly any pictures from that time. It has been over 40 years since Khmer Rouge supporters in Cambodia tried with full force to impose their ideology in the country, wiping out the lives of millions of people.
Veronika Liebl and Andrew Newman dedicate the tenth edition of Inside Festival to the topic of “Data/ Storage of our data” and present a total of five projects that address the topic from different perspectives.
The ninth episode of “Inside Festival” is all about sustainability and ecology. Christl Baur and Laura Welzenbach present three projects from our Festival Gardens and give us a sneak peek into one youth perspective of “Create your World”.
The Spaxels were just the beginning of a long journey into the future of the Ars Electronica Futurelab
Exploring new sounds – with great joy in experimentation and a healthy dose of passion.
Veronika Liebl and Kristina Maurer dedicate the eighth episode of “Inside Festival” to the topic of “New Realities“. They present two projects from our Festival Gardens and an artistic project and give us a sneak peek into the create your world program.
Since its foundation in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has always served as a trend barometer and platform for the collection of current and future visions of artists on the theme of “Art, Technology and Society”.
The reality as we experience it around us, we create ourselves. It is constructed and at the same time changeable and unstable.
How art can make complex structures tangible
Clouds have been telling us all kinds of stories for ages. With the project “Cloud Studies”, the collective “Forensic Architecture” once again looks up to the sky and uses technological tools to re-read clouds of smoke, poison and gas.
Christl Baur, Head of Ars Electronica Festival and Maaya Makino, Garden Manager, Ars Electronica dedicate the seventh edition of “Inside Festival” to the topic of “Robotinity” and present a total of four projects that addresses this topic.
Christl Baur, Head of Ars Electronica Festival and Hannes F. Franks M.A. Producer Performances, Ars Electronica dedicate the sixth edition of “Inside Festival” to the topic of “Sound Experiments” and present a total of six projects that addresses this topic.
How can we inspire people to actively design our common future?
Veronika Liebl and Karla Spiluttini take a look at the microcosm and macrocosm on the basis of some of the projects that will be shown at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.
The topic of “Critical Journalism” is the focus of the fourth edition of Inside Festival with Veronika Liebl and Andrew Newman.
Innovative concepts for hybrid environments
Veronika Liebl and Kristina Maurer dedicate the third episode to the topic of water ecology.
In the second session of “Inside Festival”, Christl Baur and Manuela Hillmann will address the topic of “Soil” that connects us all.
The past, present and future of the lab in eight episodes on Ars Electronica Home Delivery