Ars Electronica Platform Europe

Platform Europe is a forum 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. Though the issues we address here might be global, we acknowledge that our perspective is, perforce, deeply embedded 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, seeking to connect it to different viewpoints.

Ars Electronica Platform Europe Exhibitions

Working together with diverse and unique people and institutions that negotiate their common hopes, concerns, and visions is the very DNA of Europe as a philosophical construct, a geographic space, and a political union. This idea lies at the core of Ars Electronica Platform Europe, where we re-imagine tech-driven change through art.
Theater & Digital Media

Theater has always been an art form that merges and incorporates different media and artistic disciplines. Digital tools have become more present not only in the artistic elements of theater—from stage design to dramaturgical development to audience engagement—but digital technologies themselves have also increasingly become central to what is presented on stage.
Ars Electronica Theme Symposium

This year’s Theme Symposium focuses on mitigation strategies for panic in challenging times.
Critical ChangeLab Symposia

Inspired by the propositions of the Critical ChangeLab project, the symposia present bold visions of learning as disruption—and of democracy as something we must actively co-create.
New Pathways: AI, Art, and Collaboration in Citizen Science—#Education

This session will explore both the exciting opportunities and the real-world challenges of integrating citizen science into education, including time and resource limitations, balancing scientific and educational goals, and navigating curricular and institutional pressures.
New Pathways: AI, Art, and Collaboration in Citizen Science—#AI, Art, Policy

This conference explores the diverse potential of citizen science to drive education, innovation, creativity, and policy impact—while also addressing the challenges that come with it.
Earth Is a Sensorium

How does what we know about the world influence how we act in it? Earth Is a Sensorium responds to this question by examining a crucial example: the Great Acceleration.
The EuroStack Project
Francesca Bria (IT/DE), Dirma Janse (NL)
EuroStack: A vision for Europe’s technological sovereignty—rebuilding the digital stack as democratic, ecological, and sovereign infrastructure for the common good.
Playing Democracy 2.0
Ling Tan (GB/SG)
Playing Democracy 2.0 is a giant multiplayer game of Pong exploring the principles of democracy. Players rewrite the rules of the game, exploring democracy and its potential collapse. In this interactive installation, participants play through their body movements tracked by 3D cameras.
Synthenesis
Fara Peluso (IT/DE)
The Synthenesis workshop explores how to build a DIY bioreactor for cultivating spirulina microalgae and producing pills. In this participatory format, participants will envision shaping the future by promoting collective practices of care and decision-making connected to well-being and empowerment.
HEROINES: Heritage of Emancipation
Institute of Ethnography SASA (RS), University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy (RS), Roma women’s center BIBIJA (RS)
The starting point of transforming emancipation into heritage is in the recognizing of imposed limitations and the unbreakable will to overpass them. The exhibition draws on micro-narratives and micro-objects to tell the story of HEROINES' path to redefining rights, needs, freedom, and emancipation.