The Ars Electronica Festival is as broad and diverse as the people who attend it. Everyone will find their own personal approach to the Festival’s core themes of art, technology and society. Music lovers will find what they are looking for, as will artists and activists – there are many doors to enter and experience our multifaceted media arts festival. Here we have opened a few of them for you:
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For AI Inquirers
Suggesting products for online shopping, creating videos or composing music: Artificial Intelligence has many applications. If we want to use it safely in domains like medicine, industrial production or self-driving cars, we need to understand how it works. During the festival, extraordinary artistic works shed light on AI development and application.
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For Art Lovers
Art and its interplay with society and technology, has remained the central focus of Ars Electronica since its inception in 1979. Whether it’s through expansive exhibitions, unique events, captivating concerts, or inspiring lectures, we invite you to explore the remarkable projects featured in this year’s festival, meet the creative minds behind them and take a…
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For Community Builders
Approaching others, starting a conversation, gaining new perspectives, breaking out of familiar thought patterns – communication is the key to every Ars Electronica Festival. Creative exchange opens up new worlds, sparks hope and reminds us that, no matter how diverse and unique we all may be, we can always come together and bring about positive…
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For Cultural Heritage Explorers
In the same way that layers of rock bear witness to the climate, fauna and flora of bygone geological eras, cultural heritage charts the improbable progression of our civilisation. It tells stories of worldviews, power relations and conflicts, of winners and losers, revolutionary technologies and business models, of ancient desires, grand visions and everyday concerns.…
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For Families
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…
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For Hope Catalysts
While it may not be obvious judging from current news around the world, finding beacons of hope is by no means difficult. In fact, they are everywhere – in our immediate neighbourhood and on the other side of the world. During this year’s festival, we want to bring them into the spotlight, show what they…
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For Innovators
Techno-shamanism in the Alphaloop, speculative scuba diving artefacts, a climate organ created from vacuum cleaners – breaking out of traditional thought patterns requires pioneering ideas and unconventional methods. Meet researchers, activists and developers who combine art and technology in unprecedented ways, immerse yourself in their utopias and discover new worlds.
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For Music Lovers
The Ars Electronica Festival offers unique concerts and performances in unusual locations: During the opening in Linz’s St. Mary’s Cathedral, entangled photons conduct organs to mark Anton Bruckner’s 200th birthday, the Ars Electronica Nightline brings hyperpop, rap and techno into the abandoned railway hall at POSTCITY and the theme exhibition allows visitors to listen to…
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For Sustainability Advocates
Yesterday we thought we were the crown of creation, today we must face the fact that we are only a small – albeit powerful – part of the planet’s ecosystem. Consequently, the future of our species is inextricably linked to the prosperity or demise of the bigger picture. Meet artists, researchers and activists who are…