Inside Futurelab: Behind the scenes of the virtual nativity scene

Inside Futurelab offers an overview of the project and technical insights into how the digitization of one of the world’s largest nativity scenes was achieved.

Concert: Philip Glass performed by Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies

On Christmas Eve, we present the magnificent piano concert of Philip Glass pieces with Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies.

Concert: Beethoven, Bach & Pärt

With a great concert from the piano room, we bid farewell to a turbulent year.

Cooperative Aesthetics: Bezier Curves

Bezier Curves explained in an easy and playful way. With Bezier Curves by Guggenberger Thomas you will learn the meaning and purpose of this specific curve.

At the Center with... Christoph Kremer: Besondere Vorzeichen

As managing director, Christoph Kremer knows the Ars Electronica Center inside and out down to the smallest detail – and he noticed a very special omen in one of our gigapixel images in the Deep Space.

At home with… Domas Schwarz

Domas Schwarz has been involved with Ars Electronica in various roles since as early as 2015. In our living room studio, he talks about his background and his work as a media artist.

Update: APeel – cooking new materials with Youyang Song

The project APeel is an independently developed technique which aims to process biowaste into a soft yet robust leather-like material.

Open Call: Program for Next Cultural Producer Incubation Project

The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Ars Electronica are inviting to a very special training program in Linz where the participant will have the opportunity to experience the many faces of Ars Electronica.

Science Talk: Digital stress – how it destroys us and what we can do about it

René Riedl will be speaking at the Science Talk in Ars Electronica Deep Space about the potential benefits of digital technologies and how the conscious use of information and communication technologies can reduce digital stress.

Deep Space LIVE: From the geocentric to the heliocentric and cosmocentric view of the world

We leave the usual perspective in Deep Space and take a look at what the orbit of the solar system would look like from the fictitious perspective of an observer looking down on us from outside.

At the Center with... Johannes Stürzlinger: Pickerl

Johannes presents our unusual graffiti wall and shows you how you can become part of an "artwork".

Cooperative Aesthetics: Move my Body

Experience playful choreographies with Zuzanna Beker at home.

Deep Space LIVE: Cultural heritage – Pacher Altar in St. Wolfgang

Feel like an altar experience? Discover the Pacher Altar in St. Wolfgang with our Deep Space LIVE program virtually, but up close.

At the Center with... Johannes Stürzlinger: Mini Mars

Join Johannes in the Kids’ Research Laboratory, where an inconspicuous but fascinating exhibit is hidden.

Cooperative Aesthetics: Swarm

Follow the movements of the swarm, be one with your group and get bigger. Become one with the Swarm.

Inside Futurelab: Ricercar

Futurelab Key Researcher & Artist Ali Nikrang presents the project Ricercar, an interactive AI-based music composition system.

At home with… Gudrun Blohberger

In conversation with Sabine Leidlmair, Gudrun Blohberger talks about her work as educational director of the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial and explains why storytelling is particularly important to her.

Deep Space: STEAM Imaging III – virtual excursion to the Ars Electronica Center

Digital medicine and virtual journeys into the human body are fundamental research techniques of the 21st century, and in the Deep Space 8K, discovering the human body is an impressive experience.

Press conference: Ars Electronica Festival Highlights 2020

Gerfried Stocker, Martin Honzik und Horst Hörtner present the highlights of this year's Ars Electronica Festival "In Kepler's Gardens – a global journey mapping the 'new' world" that will be taking place from September 9 to September 13 at the JKU Campus and over 120 locations worldwide.

False color images: Satellites, earth observation and data visualization

Today we take you with Home Delivery on a journey around the planet from the perspective of the satellites of the Copernicus program – Sentinel I A/B, II A/B, III A/B and V P – and enter the colourful world of false colour images, where finest details of the earth's surface can provide important data.