Talks

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.

Biz 2020 – Intro Ars Electronica Center

In this intro we'll introduce the Ars Electronica Center, the Museum of the Future, as an event location. We'll chat about the various event venues the Museum has to offer and talk about the newly founded Future Thinking School - a workshop and education program for companies and groups.

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.

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.

Inside Festival: S+T+ARTS Prize 2020 / Artistic Exploration: Andrea Ling

Andrea Ling is winner of the S+T+ARTS Prize 2020 for category Artistic Exploration with her project Design by Decay, Decay by Design, produced during her residency with Ginkgo Bio works in 2019.

Science Talk: On understanding and trust - How teamwork between man and machine works

Robot psychologist Martina Mara tells what the trend area of collaborative robotics can learn from psychological theories of trust-building and she gives insights into a current research project in which the trustworthiness of robot colleagues is being investigated using virtual reality.

Science Talk: In the Glass House of the Soul

In this Science Talk, Prof. Dr. Andreas Gruber, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Kepler University Hospital, will talk about the latest methods in brain surgery, from microsurgery to neuronavigation and digitalised surgery simulations.

Artist Talk: Rashin Fahandej – American Arts Incubator – Austria

Ars Electronica, in collaboration with ZERO1, U.S. Embassy Vienna, and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is pleased to announce the American Arts Incubator — Austria with the lead artist Rashin Fahandej.

Press Conference: Ars Electronica Festival 2020

The Ars Electronica Festival 2020 will take place from September 9 to 13! Klaus Luger (Mayor of the City of Linz), Doris Lang-Mayerhofer (City Councillor for Culture and Chairwoman of the Ars Electronica Advisory Board), University Professor Dr. Meinhard Lukas (Rector of JKU) and Gerfried Stocker (Artistic Director of Ars Electronica) will present the theme and focus at this press conference.

Science Talk: Learning to program playfully (not only) during the lockdown

Bored students in the school desks were yesterday! Peter Bauer, professor at the HTL Leonding, has come up with a concept to keep his students motivated to participate in computer science classes!

Prix Ars Electronica 2020 / Computer Animation: Miwa Matreyek

Miwa Matreyek (US) receives the Golden Nica of the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica for her project "Infinitely Yours". We present this winning project from the Computer Animation category and have a live conversation with the artist.

Science Talk: BioArt with Nature

Creating High-Resolution Prints on Plants with Photosynthesis

In this program, Yoko Shimizu, artist/researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, shows us how to co-create artworks with nature using a biological process - photosynthesis.

Artist Talk: NextComic Goes Live

With the help auf Augmented Reality, students of the Master's School of Communication Design overthrew the role models of the past and let their ideas literally leap from the pages. In today's Artist Talk the students will talk about their creations, their inspirations and their journey towards finding diversity.

Final event "Mission X - Train Like an Astronaut"

For several years now, the big final event of Mission X Austria has been taking place at the Ars Electronica Center. Due to this year's exceptional situation caused by COVID-19, we unfortunately can't invite the many school classes that participated this year to the Ars Electronica Center, but of course we'll still have a special program.

Science Talk: Biohacking with Andreas Stürmer (EN)

Biohacking is made up of two words: once from "bio", like biology, and "hacking", the decoding of systems. So biohacking is about deciphering your own body and optimizing it. In this Science Talk, Andreas Stürmer, biologist and infotrainer at the Ars Electronica Center, will give you insights into the world of do-it-yourself biology.

Inside Futurelab: Art Thinking - Create your own Compass - Envision the future

"Art Thinking is not a methodology but an attitude," says Ars Electronica Futurelab curator and key researcher Hidaeki Ogawa. Accordingly, Art Thinking can also be cultivated. Create your own compass, imagine the future: That's what the new Art Thinking School, which took place for the first time at the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival, wants. In this issue of Inside Futurelab, Hideaki Ogawa tells us more about it.