Conferences & Lectures

Crafting Futures Conversation with: Yuima Nakazato. From the Relation of Fashion and Dust

Yuima Nakazato (JP)

A conversation about the future of craft, the craft of the future and the crafting of futures.
Town Hall Meeting: EIKON—Say Hello! to New Images

Moderation: Wolfgang Giegler (AT), Member of the Board, Austrian Institute for Photography and Media Art—EIKON

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…
Crafting Futures Conversation with: Noor Stenfert Kroese. The Dynamics of Living Systems in Art and Design

Noor Stenfert Kroese (NL)

A conversation about the future of craft, the craft of the future and the crafting of futures.
ARTificial: Legality, Ethics and Aesthetics of Generative AI

Micaela Mantegna (AR)

This session begins by examining the concept of creativity: Can we truly conceive of “artificial creativity”? Is AI capable of true innovation, or is it a tool reflecting human input? As AI-generated art becomes indistinguishable from human-created works, should we think of a “Turing test” for creativity? Does this blurring of lines influence how we legally…
Creative Europe

Creative Europe Desk Austria

Creative Europe is the European Commission’s programme to support the culture and audiovisual sectors. During the event, the Creative Europe Desks’ representatives will present the Culture, MEDIA and Cross Sectoral strands of the programme.
Welcome & Introduction to the day

Rachel Donald (GB)

Credits Presented in the context of the Studiotopia project. Studiotopia is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Welcome & Introduction to the day

Frederike Kaltheuner (DE)

Bios Credits This project has been developed and is presented in the context of the STARTS in the City project. STARTS in the City has received funding from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No. LC-01984766.
Frischer Wind

Mary Mayrhofer (AT), Konstantin Redl (AT), Emma Gruber (AT), Linda Michelitsch (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…
Sense and Sensuality of Immersive Spaces

Holunder Heiß (AT), Razieh Kooshki (IR), Nohlab (TR), Ars Electronica Solutions

Immersive spaces are becoming increasingly significant. Our Salon Talk will explore why immersive spaces are created and the role they play in democratizing art and culture. Immersive spaces bring the unattainable closer and open up new possibilities for deeper experiences. As sensual beings, humans develop empathy and a deeper understanding of different perspectives through immersion.
Reclaiming Digital Technologies | Is breaking up Big Tech enough?

Francesca Bria (IT), Jillian C. York (US), Christoph Knogler (AT), Frederike Kaltheuner (DE)

The concentration of power that makes and runs the present digital ecosystem signals a need to reclaim digital technologies. But in a paradigm that allows, if not encourages, monopolistic tendencies, is breaking up Big Tech enough to ensure new technologies – even when developed by a more diverse range of actors – operate differently? Reclaiming…
Calculating Empires: Mapping Technology and Power Across Time

Kate Crawford (AU), Vladan Joler (RS), Frederike Kaltheuner (DE)

How can we understand the operations of technology and power in our era? Our technological systems are increasingly complex, interconnected, automated and opaque. The industrial transformations in AI are further concentrating power, while accelerating polarization and alienation.
Alternatives | Digital Technologies for New Economic Models

Petia Niederländer (AT), Rafael Madureira dos Anjos (BR), Agnes Aistleitner Kisuule (AT), Rita Isiba (AT)

Can alternative, individual uses of technologies give us a glimpse into how systemic change might look like? We spotlight three examples that use new technologies to reimagine financial and economic models or hold governments accountable for their spending.