In an exciting first-time collaboration, the city of Gwangyang partners with Ars Electronica to bridge two artistic-technological worlds separated by 8,637 kilometers. The exhibition, spread over 4 venues, showcases renowned media artists from both South Korea and Austria, working at the intersection of art and technology.

In 2024, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) and Ars Electronica join forces for the very first time in co-commissioning a critical artwork production of a Taiwanese artist or artist collective.

Interact with AI through an arcade game, a workshop and a rapid-response-presentation

Join us at the KI Festival, hosted by 42 Heilbronn on June 29th and 30th in Heilbronn, Germany. Experience two days of exploration and fun with AI at our block party-style event. Discover stands, vendors, workshops, and exhibitors showcasing the latest in AI technology. This year, Ars Electronica is thrilled to be part of this adventure.

In the exhibition you know me so well intimate and complex assemblages of interactive, virtual and extended self-portraits inhabit the exhibition space, inviting the viewers to contemplate the fluidity of identity of our contemporary reality and challenging users to rethink our own existence and relationships with our virtual selves. Particularly, the care for our virtual (and therefore physical) being and the glitch as a liberating practice is at the core of the exhibition you know me so well.

This collaboration merges Ars Electronica's extensive exploration of technology's societal impact through art with Piksel’s dedication to local media art initiatives, fostering community engagement. Nine international and local artistic positions – Atif Akin, ha:ar, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, nohlab, Quadrature, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Theresa Reiwer, Universal Everything and Yatreda offer new perspectives on the notion of reality through the transformative lens of media art.

In 2024, Ars Electronica collaborates with the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) to jointly organize the TAICCA x Ars Electronica Art Thinking program. The aim is to support creative makers with training and mentoring in developing a prototype of an immersive experience, performance or installation.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the European Patent Convention, the European Patent Office (EPO) has invited Ars Electronica, to co-curate a central space in the basement of the EPO's headquarters. Big data, artificial intelligence and robotics, the production of materials and sustainable manufacturing, sleep as a climate technology, experiments with botanical life in space, data classification systems and blockchain, ecosystems with a human footprint – the exhibition Catalyst lab spotlights the global challenges of our time, examines the impact of technologies on our society and traces the rapid global changes driven by innovation and progress.

Inaugurated in 2021, the K-Arts Ars Electronica Academy implements hackathons, guest lectures and online workshops with Ars Electronica experts at K-Arts in Seoul. Ars Electronica accompanies the Korean National University of Arts, short K-ARTS, courses with inspirational talks and mentoring sessions.

In 2023, TAxT, the Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival, and Ars Electronica collaborate for the very first time and we are excited that the partnership led to an extended interactive version of Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s artwork Synthetic Messenger. Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that attempts to artificially inflate the value of climate change news and reporting by clicking on ads. At TAxT visitors interact with the bot through supporting it clicking on adds.

The Matsudo International Science Art Festival is a yearly celebration that takes place in the beautiful city of Matsudo in Japan. In 2023, the theme of the festival was “Seeds of Hope”. In today’s digitally connected world, where we all have access to vast amounts of information, the challenge of distinguishing truth from misinformation is ever-present. This prompts questions about the nature of truth and who owns it, or if it can be owned.

In the exhibition From the Past We Love, to the Future We Need, we encounter not only a new art form but also artworks that address the major challenging questions of our time and offer alternative, prototypical solutions beyond mere criticism. Sustainability, coexistence, and collaboration will be defining concepts, as well as the role we, as humans, assume and the role we want to assign to technology.