Afterfact, Martyna Marciniak (POL/DE) | Image courtesy of the artist

European Digital Deal

European Digital Deal is a three-year investigation into how the accelerated yet at times unconsidered adoption of new technologies – such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and algorithmic processing – can alter or undermine democratic processes. 

European Digital Deal sits at the intersection of technological and socio-political narratives, as a reminder of their deepening entanglement. Zooming into the risks and possibilities new technologies bring to existing forms of governance, the project calls on multiple voices to construct narratives and visions for a more deliberate technological future. Reinventing the concept of artistic residency to suit complex issues, we center it on the collaboration and exchange between artists, technologists, futurists, policymakers, curators, and more. 

Ars Electronica is the coordinator of the project and responsible for the communication and content production within the project, including The Digital Deal Podcast – a series in which artists, cultural critics, and theorists discuss how new technologies reshape our democracies and help us make sense of these changes. 

European Digital Deal continues the work we started in AI Lab. 

www.ars.electronica.art/eudigitaldeal

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Duration: 1 Jan 2023 – 31 December 2025

Partners (Consortium): Ars Electronica (coordinator), LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation (FZC) / Etopia, Onassis Stegi, Kersnikova Institute / Kapelica Gallery, The Center for the Promotion of Science, Gluon, Waag Futurelab, Y csoport, Sineglossa, iMAL Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, gnration, Braga Media Arts, Theatro Circo de Braga, The Culture Yard

European Digital Deal is co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme under grant agreement 101100036. Views and opinions expressed on this page are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) can be held responsible for them.


European Digital Deal is also co-funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.