Event

Family Days: Winter Wondermagic

During the Christmas season, you can experience a fascinating winter wondermagic at the Ars Electronica Center! Creative minds slip into the role of researchers and experiment with a microcontroller. Take your first steps in programming and see how your newly acquired skills can be used for a space mission. Or design winter snow landscapes in…
Themenwochenende: Connected Earth

Everything on Earth is interconnected—this can be seen not only in social, political, and economic networks, but above all in our complex and interconnected ecosystem, which has the ability to constantly restore itself to balance. We invite you to immerse yourself in this exciting world and, with the help of art and technology, feel our…
Deep Space Experience: Paula, Peter & Panini 

Following the success of the Climate Theater project, Lina Alea Roth (DE/AT), Ilona Roth (DE), and Damián Cortés Alberti (AR/ES) created the climate fairy tale “Peter, Paula, and Panini,” which was later adapted into a dance theater piece and premiered in Linz. The project featured children’s drawings that were supplemented by AI and further developed…
Deep Space Concert: Pianographique – 3 x 90

Piano music and digital images: 3 x 90 – Arvo Pärt, Terry Riley, Kurt Schwertsik – three composers who have left their musical mark on the history of music in the second half of the 20th century. Three composers who are celebrating their 90th birthdays this year and whose works continue to shape the music…
Deep Space Lecture: Pictures for Christmas

During the Christmas season, the Ars Electronica Center will once again be showing impressive images of church altars in Deep Space 8K. Michael Zugmann from the Diocese of Linz takes a journey from Hallstatt via Kefermarkt and St. Wolfgang to Linz, showcasing the diversity of Upper Austrian depictions of the birth of Jesus in detailed…
Deep Space Experience: Eröffnung tanzhafenFESTIVAL

Since 2013, the tanzhafenFESTIVAL has been a platform and interface for contemporary dance in all its diversity. It will open in Deep Space 8K with the performance Der Atem 17/19, an immersive, interactive dance performance by Korean artist Lee Jung In.
Kid’s Culture Week 2025

Since 2013, the Children’s Culture Week Linz has been the most diverse cultural event for young audiences in Upper Austria. Around 30 cultural institutions in Linz offer around 250 events for toddlers, children, young people and the whole family. The Ars Electronica Center offers young explorers not only the children’s research laboratory but also two…
Deep Space Experience: On the Trail of the Dark Universe

Join astrophysicist Dr. Laila Linke from the University of Innsbruck on a fascinating journey through the universe. In her lecture, she will present the Euclid Mission—a space project that aims to get to the bottom of one of the greatest mysteries of modern astronomy: dark matter and dark energy.
Ars Electronica Festival 2025

From September 3 to 7, 2025, Linz will once again become the hotspot of the international media art scene. Spread across festival locations throughout the city, there will be exhibitions, performances, concerts, and conferences. Most of these will take place at POSTCITY, the central venue of the festival. The Ars Electronica Center will also offer…
Heritage Day 2025

Heritage Day is Austria’s contribution to the Europe-wide initiative European Heritage Days, which is sponsored by the Council of Europe and the European Union. Since 1998, it has been coordinated annually by the Federal Monuments Office throughout Austria on the last Sunday in September.