Ars Electronica Festival

Exhibitions

Ars Electronica is one of the world’s top addresses for media art. At the festival, you’ll meet the Who’s Who of the international media art scene as well as young shooting stars who are just starting to make a name for themselves. First and foremost, we’d like to recommend one of the many exhibitions, the Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, where you can see the best media art works of the year that have been honored by the international jury of the prestigious competition.

Another “must” is the large exhibition on the festival’s respective annual theme, where artistic positions are always presented in a spectacular way. Be inspired by groundbreaking collaborations between science, technology and art at the STARTS Prize Exhibition! Every year, several dozen international universities use Ars Electronica as a platform and present impressive results of their educational programs at the interface of art and technology in the Campus Exhibition.

Concerts and Performances

A fixed point in the program of every Ars Electronica is the unique mix of concerts, performances and DJ sets. Let yourself be captivated by the virtuoso skills of the protagonists and enjoy the broad spectrum of events that take place over the five days of the festival.

Screenings

Year after year since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has been searching for the world’s best computer animations. You’ll see an exquisite selection of them during Ars Electronica in the form of the specially curated Animation Festival. The lineup we’ll be showing you in the Ars Electronica Center‘s Deep Space 8K is equally extraordinary. On 16-by-9-meter projections on the wall and floor, artists from all over the world will stage 8K-resolution visual worlds that will take your breath away. Guaranteed!

Conferences

Ars Electronica offers an almost uncountable range of exciting talks, lectures and conferences. The big two-day symposium on the festival’s annual theme brings together renowned experts and pioneers from the fields of science, art, design and technology. At STARTS Day, everything revolves around innovation for and from Europe, at the Prix Forums you’ll meet the winners of the Prix Ars Electronica’s Golden Nicas, and the Expanded Animation Conference is devoted to computer animation trends outside the mainstream.

Open Labs and Workshops

Trying things out, experimenting, touching, grasping – hands-on is our invitation, indeed our call to you! Whether you want to watch artificial intelligence “think”, train self-driving cars, program robots, 3D print or edit your own DNA with genetic scissors – at almost all of our festival locations you will find open labs and workshops where you can discover a lot of new territory under the guidance of artists and scientists!

create your world

Visit the future festival for the next generation with your family! create your world is a platform for creative projects, a playground for offbeat ideas, a laboratory for exciting experiments and a forum for constructive activism. This is where young and young-at-heart tinkerers, those with a thirst for knowledge and future enthusiasts meet to exchange ideas with like-minded people, try out new technologies and make joint plans. So come, be inspired, join in!