International Women’s Day 2025

To mark International Women’s Day 2025, the Ars Electronica Center is also setting an example and taking part in the public discourse. With works by women in media art and a performance programme in Deep Space 8K, it is putting the spotlight on women on March 8.

SAT 8.3.2025 and SUN 9.3.2025

Language: German in Foyer (sign language translation) and English in Deep Space 8K

Note: On 8.3. at 3 p.m., there will be a demonstration for International Women’s Day. Please also note the program of the Stadtwerkstatt.

International Women’s Day is aimed at the multiple discrimination and exploitation of women and girls around the world. The call for a Women’s Day that focuses on women’s rights was already loud in the years before the First World War. In 1911, the first Women’s Day was celebrated in some countries, including Austria; this public holiday was officially banned during the Nazi era. The women’s movement took it up again after the Second World War, but it only regained great significance with the women’s movement of the 1960s and 70s.

Since the United Nations General Assembly (UN) passed a resolution to this effect in December 1977, International Women’s Day has been celebrated worldwide on March 8. However, more than a century later, women are still significantly underrepresented in many areas such as art, technology and society. History shows, however, that continuous commitment and the visualisation of women are essential in order to make progress towards equality. Although the gender gap has narrowed in recent years, there is still a lot to do!

Program

8

Sat, March

10:00 – 16:30

Seminar Room, Level -1

EcotoneRepeating Event

This year’s winner of the Marianne.von.Willemer Prize for Digital Media 2024, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, presents her audiovisual essay Ecotone at the Ars Electronica Center for the first time on International Women’s Day. …

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8

Sat, March

19:30 – 20:30

Deep Space 8K

Entre deux mots

Entre deux mots is an audiovisual and immersive dance piece developed for Deep Space 8K. …

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8

Sat, March

19:30 – 20:30

Deep Space 8K

Knots

Knots is an interactive art installation that playfully explores the concept of endless repetition – taking inspiration from the myth of Sisyphus but offering a new perspective. Visitors take on the role of a figure rolling a stone up a path. However, as soon as they reach the top, the stone rolls back down, and […] …

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8

Sat, March

19:30 – 20:30

Deep Space 8K

Obsessive Realities

Brain constantly looking for a reason to be concerned. Focused on the past and the future. Stress doesn’t let you live, but you don’t know how to live without it. Milena Stępień’s performance “Obsessive Realities” is a live reading poetry act that arose from moments of high anxiety, accompanied by visions from the past that […] …

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8

Sat, March

20:30 – 21:30

Foyer

Elasoul

Elasouls Dusty Thirstdayz / Monthly dose of Hip Hop and culture Soulful Monday / Gallery sound …

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Supported by the City of Linz and the Linz Council Women’s Office