Ars Electronica Platform Europe is a space of exchange and collaboration for a network of cultural institutions, artists, scientists, technologists, and policymakers who come together in different constellations around projects (co-)funded by the European Union. Since its beginnings, the platform’s identity, initiatives, and scope have evolved, but its core mission has remained the same: to re-imagine tech-driven change through art. 

Platform Europe’s initiatives are the backstage where new narratives are created, and new practices are established with and for artists and critical thinkers. We script the change we want to see in our socio-political, technological, and planetary narratives, and we translate it into alternative ways of educating and engaging citizens, test it in incubation & digital transformation programmes, and develop it into transdisciplinary practices. 

Though the issues we address here might be global, we acknowledge that our perspective is necessarily and deeply situated in the European context. In creating this space of dialogue, we make room for a critical restlessness that challenges the universality of our European perspective to connect it with different imaginaries. 

Platform Europe remains forever ‘under construction’ and invites all those interested in developing European futures to join the conversation.