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Ars Electronica Center
Visit the Ars Electronica Center and experience how new technologies, above all artificial intelligence, are changing our lives.
In Kepler's Gardens
It's not just the 2021 Ars Electronica Festival that feels at home here-there's plenty of room for media art, concerts and exhibitions on the spacious campus of Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Ars Electronica ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2021
Based on the computer animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica international competition, animated pictorial worlds have been a cornerstone of the Ars Electronica media art festival and have been discussed and presented in various forms ever since.
Festival Community Projects
Throughout its history, Ars Electronica has been continuously working to build a vital community. Community Love Projects is a concept that intends to bring together partner gardens from all over the world in different events.
LIT Exhibition
While art and science once fed from a common source, the two disciplines were steered in separate directions at the end of the Renaissance. The rise of media art in the mid-20th century marks a turning point in this divergent development. Technological and scientific achievements were absorbed by art and advanced to become the raw material of aesthetic expression.
Fair Tech and Virtual Fun
IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (NL)
Welcome to the Fair Tech and Virtual Fun: the Utrecht Garden by IMPAKT. We focus on two themes this year: in the CODE presentations and keynote by Francesca Bria we focus on Fair Tech and Digital Agency. In our workshops and online Bal Masqué party we use Zoom as a playground for virtual VJ-ing and digital dress parties with masks and filters.
Animating Public Spaces
Anibar (XK), Cinema Jusuf Gërvalla (XK)
The Anibar International Animation Festival and Cinema Jusuf Gërvalla will animate its public spaces and bring them to the world through different means.
A PORTAL
XRE (Extended Reality Ensemble) (US), Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery (US)
The Ars Electronica Festival Garden NYC is “A Portal” that invites the audience to explore a world of immersive art, new technology and interactive performances. The festival reflects on the technological promises made to us and tries to rethink the foundations of the digital world to reconcile it with our current reality and to explore it as it intersects with culture and society.
Uncanny Dream
Helena Nikonole (RU), Oxana Chvyakina (RU)
The “Uncanny Dream” is an exhibition focused on how young Russian artists and digital natives, explore the impact of new technologies such as AI, AR and video games on art, culture and society. The project brings together artworks reflecting on issues of the Coronacene epoch and addressing topics such as AI biases, different forms of biopolitics as a response to the COVID-19 crisis, and social isolation and loneliness in times of pandemic.
Ars Electronica .ART Gallery
.ART (UK), VR-All-Art (CH)
Working together with selected partners and through an open call, ConcreteHouse.art creates space for playful reflections on the creation of virtual environments, with an accompanying series of talks about performance and the use of blockchain in art and gaming.
