Look forward to spectacular catacombs, a gloomy bunker, gigantic slide halls! For five days, we’ll be waking POSTCITY from its slumber and transforming it into an exciting, vibrant laboratory of the future for the whole family. The create your world festival once again invites young visionaries to forge fresh ideas that will help shape our future. So, let’s get together and embark on an adventure!
Projects
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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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Climate Organ
Chris Bruckmayr (AT), Klaus Dieterstorfer (AT), Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT), Rupert Huber (AT)
Climate is not only a meteorological component, but there is also a social climate. This climate is a bit affected at the moment, maybe even “bad”— there is a hidden stench of suppressed emotions and worries, which we are going to clean at least locally with a climate organ.
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create your world
the page turners
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…
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FLOCK OF
bit.studio (TH)
Blurring the boundary between imagination and reality, helium balloons become a living organism. Sensors, software and physics combine to create a spectacle that redefines our perception of the natural world.
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How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car
Tomo Kihara (JP), Daniel Coppen (GB)
Game installation that challenges people to cross the street without being detected by an AI. How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car is a game installation that challenges people to cross a virtual street undetected by an AI-powered self-driving car simulation. By disguising themselves to avoid detection, players expose both the system’s blindspots…
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Linz Center of Mechatronics (AT) Shadowgram: Collective visions on sustainability and circular economy
A mechathon approach by Linz Center of Mechatronics and the Ars Electronica Futurelab Ars Electronica Futurelab’s innovative social brainstorming Shadowgram offers a unique blend of creativity and practicality, providing an engaging platform for collecting inspiring and thought-provoking projects. Together with the Linz Center of Mechatronics, Ars Electronica is inviting audiences this year to share their hope-giving…
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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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Raise Your Voice
Jan Schlüter (DE), Silvan David Peter (CH)
Raise Your Voice proposes to corrode the authority gap between age groups by converting the voices of children into adult voices. Recordings converted at the installation can be listened to in private, or broadcast to radios distributed on site. This allows listeners to reflect on how they perceive what was said and uncover associated biases.…
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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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Young Artist Space—Should the tide be turned?
Otelo eGen (AT)
The Young Artist Space is a dynamic open space and art hub for young artists and cultural practitioners at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024. This space invites them to reflect, share and discuss the diverse artistic impressions of the festival and it offers numerous possibilities for use.
Events
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Electromagnetic Street Bon Dance Festival
ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! (JP)
The Electromagnetic Street Bon Dance Festival will honor the tradition of ancient Japanese festivals of fire, water, wind and earth, and will be dedicated to electricity, essential in the modern age. Join us in a frenzy of playing and dancing around a solar-powered, off-grid stage, where old electrical appliances are revived as new electromagnetic instruments.…
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HackTrap
Christian Ekhator (AT), Julian Kapl (AT), Julia Meyr (AT), Amina Gabeljic (AT)
Embark on an immersive journey into cybersecurity awareness with our interactive hacking simulation set in the breathtaking Deep Space 8K environment—a transformative experience for all ages.
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Peter, Paula & Panini
Lina Alea Roth (DE/AT), Damián Cortés Alberti (AR/ES), Ilona Roth (DE), Astrid Safron (AT), Liivo Safron (AT), Ravel Safron (AT), Jung In Lee (AT/KR), Samer Alkurdi (SY), Elisabet Bort Giramé (ES)
After the success of the Klimatheater project, Lina and friends created the climate fairytale Peter, Paula & Panini, later adapted into a dance theater piece. The project, which premiered in Linz and featured children’s drawings enhanced by AI, will evolve with a new AI-assisted workshop for the Ars Electronica Festival 2024. Results will be presented…
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Young Animations
Like every year, the works of talented filmmakers up to the age of 19 are celebrated in the category Young Animations. The program is a selection of short films created by young artists across Austria, who have submitted their projects to the Prix Ars Electronica 2024 in the u19–create your world category.