Electromagnetic Street Bon Dance Festival / ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! (JP), Photo: vog.photo
Big Concert Night 2024: Cocon / Cello Octet Amsterdam (NL), Nick Verstand (NL), Photo: tom mesic
FLOCK OF / bit.studio (TH), Photo: vog.photo
Organism + Excitable Chaos / Navid Navab (IR/CA), Garnet Willis (CA), Photo: vog.photo
Ars Electronica 2024 took place in Linz from September 4 to 8 and was dedicated to the title “HOPE – who will turn the tide”. 1,260 artists, scientists, developers, entrepreneurs and activists from 67 countries contributed to Ars Electronica 2024. 10 official and a further 8 featured locations were covered and 498 events were offered. With more than 112,000 visits, the festival surpassed all previous ones.
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Impressions
The 2024 Ars Electronica Festival in pictures
Rekord: Mehr als 112.000 Besuche
Das war das Ars Electronica Festival 2024!
Acrobotics / Daniel Simu (NL), Photo: vog.photo
Ars Electronica Blog
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A record: More than 112,000 visits to Ars Electronica 2024
Once again, the Ars Electronica Festival has shown what it is all about: creating space, time and an atmosphere in which people can exchange ideas and inspire each other.
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Art History in Deep Space 8K
Fly through the gigantic three-dimensional point cloud of Notre-Dame de Paris, learn all about the elaborate restoration of Vittore Carpaccio’s Young Knight in a Landscape, or get to know the innovative pictorial compositions of the Flemish master Pieter Claesz – as part of Ars Electronica 2024, Deep Space 8K once again became an immersive showcase…
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Experience Hope, Shape Change
Hope is not a substitute for action. Rather, it is a basis for action that we consciously choose – in the midst of cynicism, ignorance and indifference. An invitation to feel, to act, to touch and to be touched.
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Ars Electronica Festival: A stage for music & experiments
Music is a central component of the Ars Electronica Festival. From September 4 to 8, visitors can expect a diverse program ranging from classical to digital music
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From Hope to Action
This year’s theme symposium will focus on people who inspire others through their creativity, empathy and courage, and who create hope for a better future.
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STARTS 2024 Exhibition: Art as a Catalyst in the Innovation Process
How can we foster a culture in which art, science, and technology thrive as interrelated and mutually enriching methods of exploration, knowledge, and discovery? For a more sensitive and determined approach to the pressing issues of our time. Let’s embark on a journey into a world of possibilities. A world of new solutions.
BruQner—The Sound of Entanglement / Clemens Wenger (AT), Enar de Dios Rodríguez (ES), Martin Ringbauer (AT), Johannes Kofler (AT), Richard Küng (AT), Alexander Ploier (AT), Benjamin Orthner (AT/GH), Philipp Haslinger (AT), Photo: vog.photo
Acrobotics / Daniel Simu (NL); Photo: vog.photo
The Brainless Dancer / Passion Asasu (TH), Photo: vog.photo
POSTCITY, Photo: vog.photo
Bruckner x Pop x No Wave / NoFive (AT), Photo: vog.photo
it was, Photo: flab
Decline All / Marie Dvorzak (AT), Photo: vog.photo
ALPHALOOP / Adelin Schweitzer (FR), Photo: vog.photo
POSTCITY, Photo: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair
Prix Ars Electronica Award Ceremony 2024, Photo showing: Beatie Wolfe, Photo: vog.photo
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The podcast for the festival!
In the Ö1 podcast, journalist Hannah Balber meets artists, researchers and innovators and explores their inspirations, successes, failures and how they deal with new technologies.
HOPE – who will turn the tide
Optimism is not the belief that things will somehow work out, but rather the confidence in our ability to influence and bring about improvement. And that perhaps best describes the essence of the principle of hope, not as a passive position, but as an active force that motivates us to keep going despite adversity.
Back at POSTCITY
The epicenter of Ars Electronica 2024 was once again POSTCITY. The themed exhibition, the STARTS exhibition—this year also featuring the award-winning projects from the inaugural STARTS Prize Africa—and the Ars Electronica Features Exhibition were on display there. The theme symposium and the Big Concert night took place at POSTCITY, and last but not least, it once again became the playground for “create your world,” the future festival for the next generation.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
Festival Mile in Downtown Linz
There were eight additional festival locations in the city center: St. Mary’s Cathedral (Mariendom), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, University of Arts Linz, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Ars Electronica Center, Stadtwerkstatt, Anton Bruckner Private University, and for the first time, the JKU MED Campus was used.
Ars Electronica Center
POSTCITY
University of Arts Linz
JKU MED Campus
St. Mary’s Cathedral
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Anton Bruckner Private University
STWST
Atelierhaus Salzamt
Festival for Art, Technology and Society
2023: TRIPTYCH / Robin Fox, Photo: vog.photo
2022: LightSense Uwe Rieger (DE/NZ), Yinan Liu (NZ), Tharindu Kaluarachchi (LK), Amit Barde (IN), Photo: Florian Voggeneder
2021: The Transparency Of Randomness / Vera Tolazzi (AT), Mathias Gartner (AT), Photo: vog.photo
2020: TOC ONE / Moritz Simon Geist (DE), Photo: vog.photo
2019: CRYPTID / Michael Candy (AU), Photo: vog.photo
2018: Digital Shaman Project / Etsuko Ichihara (JP), Photo: tom mesic
2017: Regenerative Reliquary / Amy Karle (US), Photo: Florian Voggeneder
2016: Big Concert Night, Photo: Florian Voggeneder
Since 1979, Ars Electronica has been keeping track of the ongoing digitalization of our living environment, exploring political, social, ecological and economic changes and taking a look at how we will shape technological progress in the future. As part of a global network of artists, scientists, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and activists, Ars Electronica continues to drive this curiosity forward and make it accessible to everyone. With its multifaceted exhibitions, inspiring conferences, impressive concerts, lively performances and dynamic interventions, the Ars Electronica Festival once again underscores its clear goal: to initiate a discourse and promote hopeful visions of the future.
Commissioned Projects
Throughout the year, we work with partners around the world to support artists by organizing open calls, curating exhibitions and conferences, and much more. The results of these commissions are presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in September.
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The Ars Electronica Festival 2024 is funded by the City of Linz, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sports, as well as the state of Upper Austria, and numerous sponsors and partner institutions.