Highlights

Inside Festival: “Das Festival findet statt!” with Martin Honzik, Gerfried Stocker and Meinhard Lukas

The Ars Electronica 2020 is a journey to measure the "new" world and a journey through „Kepler‘s Gardens“ which will take place, not despite but because of COVID-19, again this year from September 9 to 13. Martin Honzik, Gerfried Stocker and Lukas Meinhard, dean of Johannes Kepler University, will discuss the interesting challenges and changes in this segment of Ars Electronica Home Delivery.

Creative Question Challenge

The Creative Question Challenge (CQC) is a new brainstorming format in which speakers explore and present creative questions in a 30-minute dialogue. It brings together two speakers from different disciplines and backgrounds and a facilitator – called Catalyst – to create questions for the world to ponder within a time limit.

Inside Festival: Adriatic Sea, Moscow, Bangkok: A Journey from the Garden of Datasets vs Mindsets to the Garden of Psych

With Home Delivery we are exploring gardens across the world in this special Inside Festival segment that spans the continents from the Adriatic sea, across Russia, to Thailand.

At home with... Florian Voggeneder

Recurring motifs in Florian Voggeneder's work, besides space travel, are humans, signals, and interferences – often based on cartographic research. He will be speaking about current projects, closed borders, and the possibility of being at home in space in this segment of “At home with…” for Ars Electronica Home Delivery.

Science Talk: Asteroids and comets – bad omens or fantastical vagabonds of the skies

Erich Meyer will give the viewers of today’s Science Talk an understanding of asteroids and comets – with terrific images and entertaining commentary.

Inside Festival: Amsterdam, Linz, United Kingdom: A STARTS Journey from Planet B to the Garden of Delights

Starting with a journey through Re-FREAM Garden and UK Garden by UCA we are exploring gardens across the world with this special Inside Festival segment of Ars Electronica Home Delivery – and showcasing submissions of this year's STARTS prize.

Inside Futurelab: Zen Machine

Can a machine, which is traditionally intended to execute functional or repetitive tasks, fulfil the role of monk and maintain a Zen garden, or is spirituality reserved solely for humans?

Inside Ars Electronica Solutions: Special Projects in Austria

Michael Mondria (Senior Director) and Harald Moser (Business Manager) will be presenting various projects, implemented in Austria, where the Ars Electronica Solutions team was confronted with very unique challenges and found creative, unique and bespoke solutions to these particular challenges.

Inside Festival: American Arts Incubator – Panel Review

Future of Inclusion Lab is a virtual programme centred on art, technology and community co-creation to address the challenge of social inclusion. During a 90-minute live stream on July 31 via Ars Electronica Home Delivery the Future of Inclusion Lab participants will present their creative results of a month long process using art, technology and community co-creation to envision radical philosophical shifts needed for change.

Inside Ars Electronica Solutions: Deep space has a soul. Cubo Negro in Culiacan, Mexico

Michael Mondria, Patrick Müller and Michaela Fragner talk about the organizational, content and cultural issues that arise when a high-tech application such as Deep Space 8K is transferred to a completely different cultural environment.

At home with... David Jentgens

David Jentgens has dedicated himself to the discipline of drama and theatre directing. All his experiences in theatre have convened in Linz since 2017 in the work at the Ars Electronica Center and the artistic direction of the Limbic 3000 Theatre and Cultural Association.

Inside Festival: Prix Ars Electronica 2020 / u19: Benjamin Aster

Benjamin Aster (AT) is one of this year's Prix Ars Electronica entrants* who won a Young Professionals Award in the u19 - create your world category.

At home with... Amnesty International: COVID-19 & Human Rights

In order to contain the COVID-19 virus, various measures and regulations are adopted by the government. The aim of these measures is to protect human life. To this end, many human rights - especially civil liberties - will be temporarily restricted.

Inside Festival: Prix Ars Electronica 2020 / Cyberarts Exhibition

Year after year, the CyberArts Exhibition at the OK (Upper Austrian Kulturquartier) is one of the Ars Electronica Festival's highlights, as the exhibition brings together a number of the best works submitted to the Prix Ars Electronica.

Inside Ars Electronica Solutions: Focus on the Economy

Michael Mondria (Senior Director) and Chris Bruckmayr (Head of Products & Events) will be demonstrating the working methods and philosophy of Ars Electronica Solutions on the basis of selected current projects.

Concert: Igor Stravinsky's Firebird by Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies

Classical music at its finest awaits you with Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies, who will be performing Igor Stravinsky's Firebird in the complete, original ballet version, arranged from Stravinsky’s orchestral score, in the Ars Electronica Center's Piano Room on the Bösendorfer Imperial CEUS computer grand piano.

Science Talk: Digital identity of the future - opportunities and challenges

In this lecture, Dr. Rene Mayrhofer from the Institute of Networks and Security at JKU Linz will present the possibilities, chances and risks of digital identity cards on smartphones, discuss current developments and consider the next steps.

Inside Futurelab: Our Social Forest – Non-verbal communions in the era of social distancing

With the corona virus in full swing, and the ensuing guidelines for social distancing, people have flocked to new technologies in order to keep communicating verbally and visually. However, video calls and social media still feel inadequate when it comes to conveying the complexity and intricacies of human communication. What's missing?

At Home with… INTERVIEW WITH DEPART.AT

Home Delivery starts with a program on "local heroes" and questions the home: Especially in the last few months, the home has taken on a special significance. We present personalities around Ars Electronica Linz who live, work and work from Linz and the surrounding area. We'll start off with Manuela Naveau, the director of Ars Electronica Export, and the artist duo DEPART.

Deep Space: Anatomy hall of the future

A unique anatomy room of the future is waiting for you! With the "Cinematic Rendering" program developed by Siemens Heltheneers, Deep Space 8K is transformed into an anatomical theater in which we can virtually immerse ourselves in the human body layer by layer.