Will we turn the page? Is it really just two sides? Or, more likely, a multiple choice scenario that we as a society must navigate together? Turning the tide in the right direction is not a binary process, it requires many different points of view and aspects to be considered. Of course, we all need to change something—but who can or should take the lead in making decisions? Our society has so many challenges to overcome. Concerning democracy and individual needs, we should think about how we can contribute individually. Strengthening our own mental health and arranging our own environment positively so that we feel good and strong is perhaps the optimal precondition.
A festival to try out and dive into
Defining hope is also a very individual process. Our personal hopes must be integrated into the global, collective hope to turn the tide together. It sounds complex and unsolvable. Maybe it is. But there is still … hope! … that we can manage to find ourselves on a path of change again—and then move in the same direction. This might be a first step. Turning a page can bring a new chapter in a complex story. Let us see what this new chapter holds for our future.
roadLAB / Explainer*innen / Explainers of the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology, Photo: Technisches Museum Wien
Powerplayground / Helwin Prohaska (AT), Johannes Ambrosch (AT), Florian Rudinger (AT), Daniel Otto (AT), Marlene Noggler (AT), Andreas Stojanovic (AT), Photo: Fabian Hurnaus
Labor der Zuversicht Laboratory of Optimism / Felix Winkler (AT), Photo: Sandra Schink
This year’s create your world festival will again be a place to share ideas and discuss individual definitions of hope. There will be a special focus on mental health, especially for young people. Delving into the many different processes of various Open Labs gives visitors the chance to access art, technology and society in a new way.
“create your world” is more important than ever, for we must first take care of ourselves to be able to help others and join together in a collective that can turn the tide. By simultaneously focusing on individual and collective development, we believe we can successfully maneuver through the challenges of the present and the future.
POSTCITY
WED Sept. 4 – SUN Sept. 8, 2024
Access to the create your world area is free of charge.
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AI Wonderland with Dynatrace & CoderDojo
Dynatrace (AT), CoderDojo (AT)
Explore the world of Artificial Intelligence! We show you how AI works and what you can do with it. No matter your age, this is the place to play and learn about tomorrow’s technology.
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do-gether
Thomas Nayer (AT)
do-gether, founded by Thomas Nayer, 21 years old and a wheelchair user, aims to bring the term “help” into the digital age and to be a platform for assistance of all kinds. With an easy-to-use app, a simple payment system and a focus on security and community, do-gether aims to change the way people can…
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ECOPOLIS
Andrea Aschauer (AT), Jeremiah Diephuis (US/AT), Ingrid Graz (AT), Katharina Gruber (AT), Isabel Guschl (AT), Paul Huemer (AT), Raffael Maxian (AT), Oliver Schrot (AT), Stefan Strasser (AT)
As the effects of climate change become increasingly visible, more and more young people are mobilizing to demand stronger political action. The ECOPOLIS project aims to develop a web-based platform to reach young people in a playful way and to better integrate them into the current climate policy discourse.
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Frischer Wind
Emma Gruber (AT), Mary Mayrhofer (AT), Linda Michelitsch (AT), Konstantin Redl (AT)
Young people face great uncertainty. In our state of permanent crisis, people discuss, argue, and some resign themselves to the situation. In the twilight of democracy, however, the debate about change is conspicuously silent. Yet this is what must take place now. Do we need change? Is change possible? And if so, how? The audience…
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Innovationshauptplatz—Laboratory of Optimism
Innovationshauptplatz (AT)
Discover the Laboratory of Optimism—a media and technology lab for children and young people where you can work with others on a vision for a better way of living together! Here you have the opportunity to be creative in an inspiring environment, to learn new skills and to exchange ideas with like-minded people about topics…
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Music Lab
Ars Electronica (AT)
Discover the world of digital music production with Ableton Live! Here, you can create your own beats and new sounds, edit and arrange them with virtually unlimited possibilities and share them with others.
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Nähküche
Nähküche Linz (AT)
Sewing a lanyard at the Nähküche. An open sewing workshop“First you are amazed at how much is already happening around the world, and then hope begins to emerge. HOPE—who will turn the tide.”
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oceaNebula
Sophie Gartner (AT)
What do the oceans and the universe have in common? Both hold many secrets. The artist wanted to bring these secrets together.
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offSpring
Sophie Gartner (AT), Julian Czermak (AT), Enzo Gutschi (AT), Johannes Hörzer (AT), Neo Klinger (AT), Lisa Rauch (AT), Tilman Riegler (AT), Delia Sandholzer (AT), Judith Veis (AT), Sarah Windisch (AT)
Caleb always wanted to save the world, but his loving mother has the ambition to stop him even in death. offSpring is a 3D animated short film made in Blender.
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Patchwork Girl
Paulien Geerlings, Jantine Jongebloed, Eva Knibbe, Noelía Martin-Montalvo, Nina van Tongeren
Patchwork Girl is a poignant and heartfelt lecture performance about sexting, online exposure, slut-shaming and owning your sexuality. Using the internet that victimized them, women who have experienced online shaming over private, intimate content that was illegally shared reclaim and rewrite their narrative. In a multidisciplinary display of autobiographical material, performance and AI art, both…
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PodcastLab
create your world (AT), c3 (HU), InSync Youth and Family Services (IE), mb21 (DE), Only Tomorrow Association (RO)
The 14th Youth Exchange Project will bring young people from five different countries to Linz as part of the Ars Electronica Festival.The overall goal is to exchange creative and artistic ideas, and this year the international group will work together in an open lab to produce podcasts: From brainstorming and conception to production and recording…
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Powerplayground
Johannes Ambrosch (AT), Marlene Noggler (AT), Daniel Otto (AT), Helwin Prohaska (AT), Florian Rudinger (AT), Andreas Stojanovic (AT)
The Powerplayground focuses on the transformation of the energy system as the most important lever for effective climate protection. It provides an understanding of energy, energy supply and the dimensions of the “energy transition”. We want to show you how and where you can actively participate in this transformation—personally or professionally. So we don’t just…
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roadLAB
Explainer*innen / Explainers of the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology (AT)
The Vienna Museum of Science and Technology is on the road. The roadLAB is a fully equipped Maker*Space with 3D printers, laser cutter, cutting plotter, laptops, its own WIFI and much more.
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SoundSpaces.
Emil Steixner (AT), Jan Knickmann (AT/DE)
SoundSpaces. is a platform for audiovisual media realized with the help of resonance loudspeakers. Immersive, spatial and fundamentally different: this is what the 7.2.2 sound system is all about. The seven resonance loudspeakers, mounted in a circle in front of, behind and to the side of the audience, form the basic structure of the installation.…
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Step into Space
spaceEU, Ars Electronica (AT), ESERO Austria (AT)
This traveling exhibition travels from school to school throughout Austria and is dedicated to the topics of space travel, earth observation, and Austria in space. Consisting of three modules, it can be visited throughout the festival.
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Tinkertank – Forge of Hope
Ryan Jenkins (US), Thomas Kühn (DE), Johannes May (DE)
Tinkertank is building a chain reaction machine! And everyone is invited to join in! Visitors to the Ars Electronica Festival will join tinkertank in on-site workshops to invent individual modules out of electronic scrap and old toys.
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Yes-No?
Sifan Pan (CN), Sveta Shuvaeva, Melanie Steinhuber (AT), Marharyta Varabel (BY), Michael Wittmann (DE)
All visitors to the Ars Electronica Festival are invited to participate in an interactive performance that will ask them questions about their personal future and the future of us all. The visitors’ answers will be converted into binary codes and woven into fabric on table looms. The result is a canvas that is both a…
de Toneelmakerij
De Toneelmakerij makes cutting-edge shows for young audiences. Based in Amsterdam and with (inter)national reach, we tell polyphonic stories to the heartbeat of the city. We were part of European projects such as the awarded Young Europe 4 and ACuTe. Our production Rabbit Hole, created within the framework of ACuTe, received a Zilveren Krekel award for best concept and use of new tech.
Technisches Museum Wien (AT)
Tinkertank – Eine Initiative der Interactive Media Foundation gGmbH (DE)
Tinkertank was founded in 2013 as an initiative of the Interactive Media Foundation gGmbH to empower people in the context of technology, crafts, culture, science and digitalization to find creative and self-organized solutions.
It offers workshops for everyone aged 13 and over, creative seminars for teams and adults, mentor training and consulting as well as the design and implementation of creative spaces and mobile makerspace solutions.
Verein Energiewende Linz (AT)
Verein Energiewende Linz was born out of the determination of two committed, young people to find a way to actively promote climate protection in the energy transition. The Kaisergasse project, which was supported by the Linz Climate Fund, provided the basis for this effort. With the educational project Powerplayground, they have now developed a platform and content to communicate the possibilities, opportunities and challenges of the energy transition directly to those interested.