As a music festival in the UNESCO City of Media Arts Linz, STREAM presents current music and pop culture in the context of digitalization. The STREAM FESTIVAL is a dynamic music format that shows its mutability at the pulse of time in every edition.
FRI 30.5. and SAT 31.5.2025
Free admission to the Ars Electronica Center for all under 18 years of age and for participants in the program.
Registration for the presentation and artist tour at center@ars.electronica.art or +43.732.7272.0 (limited number of participants)
The festival’s central element is always the collaboration with the independent scene. The festival program is developed together with numerous partners from the independent and institutional art and cultural scene in Linz, as well as in cooperation with Radio FM4 and Ö1.
In 2025, STREAM will take place on May 30 and 31 as an open-air festival with a club program, transforming downtown Linz into an urban music experience with the program tracks STAGE, TALK and CLUB.
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Artist Tour: AI x Music
with Gizem Kus and Andreas Kump
Gizem Kus is a storyteller! As a musician and as a cultural mediator at the Ars Electronica Center, she knows how to orchestrate personal encounters between stories and their audiences. Join Gizem on a tour of the AI x Music exhibit, which is dedicated to people who make music and the development of musical machines! […]
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Deep Space Special: Deep Space Music
With its technical capabilities, Deep Space 8K is the perfect presentation and stage room in one. Various audiovisual artworks will be shown in this Deep Space presentation. How creative can artificial intelligence be and what does AI have to do with music? We will address these and other questions in this special presentation in Deep […]
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Presentation: AI x Music
For centuries, music has been a pioneer and early adopter of new technologies and is closely linked to mathematics and natural sciences. In this exhibition, we explore the history of the creative interplay between humans and machines and learn more about the interaction between artificial intelligence and music.
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Talk: Can a machine dream green?
When we talk about machines, we describe them as artificially intelligent, we teach them to learn independently and we read their generated outputs as “dreams”. Yet although they are created by and for humans, we often question their actual usefulness and create dystopian future scenarios.