Events, Concerts, Performances

  • Linzer Klangwolke 24: PIONEERS 52 Hz

    Linzer Klangwolke 24: PIONEERS 52 Hz

    Eight pioneers and their visions, their research, expertise, thirst for discovery and courage are at the center of PIONEERS 52 Hz, Linzer Klangwolke 24, presented by Sparkasse OÖ and LINZ AG.

  • Pataphysical Orchestra

    Pataphysical Orchestra

    Clemens Wenger (AT), Raphaela Edelbauer (AT), Simon Nagy (AT), Sabine Rechberger (AT)

    Founded in 2022 and also known as the “sound-erotic pony guard of the pataphysical widows”, the Pataphysical Orchestra is a sound body modeled after the legendary Portsmouth Sinfonia in which professional musicians, courageous amateurs and musical duds share the stage.

  • Water Organoids

    Water Organoids

    Shapes of Emergence: Baudouin Saintyves (FR/US), Severine Atis (FR), Otto Briner (US/FR), Ben Kinsinger (US), Roiel Benitez (PY/FR)

    Water Organoids is a live cinema performance using an “immersive microscope” to film and project an invisible and counter-intuitive reality of self-organizing water structures. Physical experiments are performed alongside improvising musicians in front of the audience, as a puppetry of an emerging, primitive form of life.

  • Ars Electronica Nightline

    Ars Electronica Nightline

    2024 the Ars Electronica Nightline focuses on innovative clubmusic from Switzerland.

  • Campus Award Ceremony

    Campus Award Ceremony

    For the first time, this year, Ars Electronica Festival 2024 will reward the best exhibited project within the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition with the Ars Electronica Campus Award. This occasion highlights emerging talents and the educational institutions that support them, providing a platform to recognize and celebrate excellence in media arts and design.

  • transreal+

    transreal+

    Hannah Wimmer (AT), Maximilian Prag (AT)

    In transreal+, the artists Hannah Wimmer and Maximilian Prag explore how movement and self-experience can be translated into a virtual environment. What parameters can we agree on in our interactions and how do we want to encounter each other in cyberspace? 

  • SUPERIMPOSITION

    SUPERIMPOSITION

    POLISONUM (IT)

    SUPERIMPOSITION is an artistic project by Polisonum that investigates the theme of listening and sonic control. The project is realized through the encounter between multiple disciplinary fields including sound, data analysis, fashion, and visual arts.

  • Reimagining Fashion: A screening of DUST TO DUST with Yuima Nakazato

    Reimagining Fashion: A screening of DUST TO DUST with Yuima Nakazato

    Yuima Nakazato (JP)

    DUST TO DUST is a documentary offering an intimate look at Japanese haute couture designer Yuima Nakazato. Blending innovative scientific technologies with traditional material techniques, Nakazato is on a mission to shift fashion from mass production toward a more environmentally respectful approach—an urgent task in an industry notorious for waste and harmful environmental practices.

  • Homeostat

    Homeostat

    Emil Torp (DE)

    Homeostat represents a system whose altering parameters perpetually grapple with achieving stability while guarding against chaos. This ongoing struggle is sonically manifested in this performance, inviting listeners to immerse themselves in the constant evolving through the self-playing Tam Tam. This echoes the relentless pursuit of equilibrium, while exploring the distinction between moment and interval, emancipating…

  • Tinkertank—Forge of Hope

    Tinkertank—Forge of Hope

    Ryan Jenkins (US), Thomas Kühn (DE), Johannes May (DE)

    True to the motto “From deconstruction to construction”, the creative laboratory tinkertank takes festival visitors on an artistic and technological journey of discovery. Interactive modules will be built from electronic waste, old toys and everyday objects as part of a chain reaction machine.

  • Film Premiere: Eternal You

    Film Premiere: Eternal You

    Moritz Riesewick (DE), Hans Block (DE)

    The Austrian premiere of the documentary film Eternal You, which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The screening will be followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with the director(s).

  • entangled homes

    entangled homes

    Catrin Manoli, Sule Suarez, Sofia Talanti, Kristina Tica, Mobina Vatandoost, Anna Kraher

    The exhibition entangled homes explores themes of home, identity and belonging intertwined with power dynamics. It blends analog and digital spaces, featuring diverse artworks including comics, GIFs, and memes. Selected works will be displayed at WHA Gallery, University of Arts Linz.