Program

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode Two – Poetic Systems

Artist and Key Researcher Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer embarks on a research for the poetic moment within the natural and artificially generated systems surrounding us.

At home with… Bernhard Mühleder

Bernhard Mühleder has been strongly rooted in memorial work in the Mauthausen region for more than 15 years. In an interview with Sabine Leidlmair, he talks about his activities and his involvement in the NGO community.

Update: CCI Lab – Laboratory of the Senses

Artist Christiane Wittig creates a Laboratory of the Senses that serves as a source of information and an experiment to trigger reflection for the reformulation of the sensual in us.

#eachnamematters

From May 4 to 6, 2021, the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial will give a face to the thousands of victims and contrast the mere number of 90,000 with concrete names with individual life stories. You can follow this event in the livestream.

Update: CCI Lab – Faserland

In the workshop "Faserland" artists worked with students and post-graduates to examine the materials that currently determine our lives.

Concert: J.S. Bach & Maurice Ravel

Sunday evening, the Ars Electronica Center's Piano Room will become a stage when Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa once again present the very best in piano music.

At home with… Barbara Ungepflegt

Artist Barbara Ungepflegt talks to Manuela Naveau about life in a bus stop, her love of cleaning and the dirty.

User Manual for Digital Humanists: Chapter 2

“User Manual for Digital Humanists” is a new series exploring the big questions at the heart of the global platform of Ars Electronica.

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode One – Virtual Worlds

In Deep Space, Roland Haring and Johannes Lugstein show new perspectives on virtual environments and insights into the DNA of the Futurelab.

Deep Space LIVE: Sepp Eisenriegler – Can the circular economy save our climate?

Global resource consumption has tripled in the last 40 years – Sepp Eisenriegler speaks about circular economies and what can be done to contribute to climate protection.

Update: The Welcome Chorus

The Welcome Chorus is an interactive installation – Christl Baur gives insights into this new exhibit at the Ars Electronica Center.

Deep Space LIVE: Virtual exhibition opening “CCI Lab”

The CCI Lab presents different projects as well as workshops – in Deep Space LIVE the exhibition is opened virtually.

Cooperative Aesthetics: Kaleidoscope

Create fabulous kaleidoscopes by taking a few steps on the projection floor!

Cooperative Aesthetics: Curves

In „Curves“ by Gerhard Funk transverse movement in the room creates curved lines on the wall that are mirrored on the floor and extend from one edge to the other.

Cooperative Aesthetics: Eccentric Circles

When players enter the eccentric circles on the floor projection, each of them sets a new centre around, which makes the circles move.

Inside Futurelab: Cypress Trees, A Beginning – guest presentation by Anna Ridler & Caroline Sinders

Caroline Sinders and Anna Ridler will speak about their artistic-scientific research this year in the context of an AILab residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Press briefing: Kick-off for the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 (EN)

Following last year's pioneering installment of the festival, Ars Electronica 2021 is also breaking new ground – find out all the details in this press briefing livestream.

Press briefing: Kick-off for the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 (DE)