Exhibitions

  • Space of Imagination @ Matsudo City International Science Art Festival

    Space of Imagination @ Matsudo City International Science Art Festival

    In collaboration with the Japanese artist Yoko Shimizu, Ars Electronica Japan  first co-curated the Matsudo City International Science Art Festival in 2018. Strongly integrated into local structures, the festival format took its starting point from the existing infrastructures of the university city northeast of Tokyo. A broad creative scene and the scientific and technical institutions located in…

  • Losgröße 1 – Technisches Museum Wien

    Losgröße 1 – Technisches Museum Wien

    In November 2018 Technisches Museum Wien opened the exhibition “Arbeit & Produktion” as part of the series “weiter_gedacht_”. The series of events put current research and development at the centre of the 2018 programme and focused on how central features of society are affected by technologically driven change.

  • Stille Nacht 200

    Stille Nacht 200

    On the 200th anniversary of the Christmas classic Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht the Salzburg Museum, as one of seven parts of the Salzburg Provincial Exhibition, presented various facets of the song in the curated tour Silent Night 200 – History. Message. Present.

  • Aspern Skizzentisch

    Aspern Skizzentisch

    In the role of a scientific partner of the Technical Museum Vienna, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is advisory and realizes projects within the scope of an exhibition-series “Weiter_Gedacht_” (one step further). In the case of the first of three events between 2016 and 2021, the title “Die Zukunft der Stadt” (The urban future) called for…

  • Pixelspaces

    Pixelspaces

    Pixelspaces war eine jährliche Konferenz, die das Ars Electronica Futurelab zwischen 2001 und 2013 veranstaltete. Sie wurde 2018 durch das Open Futurelab abgelöst, das bis heute jährlich einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Ars Electronica Futurelab wirft.

  • Robotinity Exhibition

    Robotinity Exhibition

    Human beings have been developing machines for thousands of years. But what drives us on to do so? Is it the urge to understand and recreate nature and its processes? Is it perhaps our audacious pretensions to be capable of improving on the world as it is? Or are we just curious?

  • Humphrey II

    Humphrey II

    In the beginning, there was Humphrey — a mechatronic device that worked in conjunction with a pair of data glasses to simulate flight in a 3-D environment. This installation in the Ars Electronica Center has been a smash hit with visitors since the museum opened, having replaced almost all the exhibits on display there at…

  • Humphrey I

    Humphrey I

    Humphrey was no conventional flight simulator. It was a special construction that let users fly through virtual worlds. Unlike conventional flight simulators that simulate „flying a vehicle“, “Humphrey” simulated the flying itself… free as a bird, a Superman or Supergirl.