Collections
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Open Futurelab
Ars Electronica Futurelab
The Open Futurelab invites you to explore the latest works of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, to engage and connect to shape the process of HOPE. We believe that art is one of humanity’s most powerful instruments to experience new potential worlds and enter a discourse about the future, inspiring HOPE in the process.
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Changing Environments
BUCHAREST | NEOART Association/Galateca Gallery (RO)
Changing Environments is the curatorial and research theme of the exhibition. Through two interactive installations, it explores the impact we feel on an individual and community level caused by excessive use of technology, environmental destruction or unseen realities owing to the speed of scrolling. The selected artists—Sebastian Comănescu and Marina Oprea —are two of the…
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Jiabao Li: Ecocentric Future Lab (US)
AUSTIN | Jiabao Li: Ecocentric Future Lab (US)
Run with mice, scream with bats, draw maps with a bobtail squid, talk like arctic foxes and move like polar bears. Jiabao Li’s exhibition probes non-human intelligence, helping us shift perspectives through co-creation with more-than-human entities.
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Label4Future
The projects featured in the framework of Label4Future showcase new artistic visions for more sustainable production methodologies.
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FUNKEN Academy
The projects developed and featured in the framework of FUNKEN Academy showcase artistic experiments with different scientific topics, as data, fungi or DNA.
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Artist Spotlight
Within this year’s theme exhibition, we invite visitors to try on the artists’ lenses in four designated spaces with artists Tega Brain, Anab Jain of Superflux, LaJuné McMillian, and the Time’s Up collective. Opening with a specific question, Artist Spotlights take us to the crossroads of ways of thinking, of ways of working and being…
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Workshops
Meet creative minds from all over the world in the Ars Electronica Festival workshop programme – artists, scientists, activists and curious festival visitors like you. Together with experienced experts, you will immerse yourself in exciting topics, share ideas and develop new perspectives. Let yourself be inspired!
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POSTDIGITAL LUTHERIE
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Observer Pattern
Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts (TW)
In Observer Pattern, the roles of machines in media art are compared and examined based on behavioral design patterns. Through interactions between machines and their surroundings, artists translate intuition, emotions and thoughts into creative production. This exhibition reveals how machines are becoming new types of observers, collaborating with humans to shape a meaningful world.
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Town Hall Meetings
Ars Electronica connects: In 2024, the Festival is focused on the protagonists of positive development. Our extensive network of partners consists of these protagonists, who make us hopeful for better futures: academic institutions, public bodies, cultural organizations, and creative industries as well as the private sector, from sustainable industries to innovative technologies, come together at…
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Interwoven Existence
School of Cultural Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (CN)
Interwoven Existence by the Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University faculty immerses you in the interplay of cultures and nature through an innovative installation. Experience a sensory reed space sourced directly from the Tai Lake in Suzhou, China. Explore VR narratives on the coexistence of multispecies. Challenging perceptions, Interwoven Existence promotes the recognition of humanity’s intricate connection…
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Mimicry, Metaphor, and Mistake
National Academy of Art Sofia (BG)
The concepts of Mimicry, Metaphor, and Mistake are applied to digital art, as they touch on themes of imitation, symbolism, and imperfection. Three authors from the Digital Arts Master’s Program, at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, are working on the topic. The exhibition is an invitation to consider how these elements shape our understanding…