Workshops

Synthenesis workshop by Fara Peluso, 2025. Overview of Spirulina harvesting and spherification processes - Photo: Quo Artis

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Workshops

At the Ars Electronica Festival workshops, you will meet creative minds from all over the world – including artists, scientists, activists and curious festival visitors like you. Together with experienced experts, you will delve into fascinating topics, exchange ideas and develop new perspectives. Let yourself be inspired!

Most workshops have a limited number of participants, so you must register in advance. To do this, click on “Register” on the workshop page and fill out the registration form.

  • AI TOOLBOX – PREMIERE PROJECT

    Pablo Palacio (ES), Daniel Bisig (CH), Farzaneh Nouri (IR)

    The workshop introduces the AI Toolbox, a collection of open-source tools custom-developed within the context of the Horizon Europe project "Premiere". These tools are designed to facilitate the use of computer-based generative methods for creative work in the performing arts.

  • Archival Images of AI

    Rasa Bocyte (LT)

    Tired of seeing the same blue circuit boards or shiny white robots every time someone talks about AI? Yeah, us too. Join this hands-on workshop if you want to learn how to replace these misleading visual tropes with more inclusive and realistic imagery by reusing cultural heritage collections.

  • Bias Card Game

    Chikako Asai (JP), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP)

    The Bias Card Game is a tool to help uncover unconscious biases hidden in our daily lives. Through play, participants reflect on how biases arise in everyday products and services, and explore ways to address them.

  • Canary in the Coal Mine

    Denisa Pubalova (CZ), Léna Defay (FR), Lina Mittendorff (DE)

    A game of absurd sensing infrastructures that explores the forced convergence of technological sensing and more-than-human sensory capacities. We invite you to make sense of the world, raise your awareness on techno-ecological entanglements, and reclaim sensible agency in an overstimulated world.

  • CreAItivity

    Philipp Wintersberger (AT)

    This workshop invites artists from all disciplines to explore the increasingly fluid boundaries between human and machine creativity. Together, we will discuss both the potential and the limitations of AI systems, helping to gain a clearer sense of how this novelty can inform artistic practice.

  • From Generative to Regenerative Technologies

    Ola Bonatijud (PL), Judith Veenkamp (NL)

    This interactive session delves into regenerativity and permacomputing in creative practice, inviting participants to explore these ideas through a practical, hands-on exercise.

  • Human-Machine Teamwork

    Adrian Rudershausen (DE), Hanke Homburg (DE), Florian Ullrich (DE), Benjamin Buck (DE), Nils Penner (DE), Sylvia Amman (AT)

    Can AI become a productive member of teams within educational and cultural organizations? We examine the opportunities and challenges involved in designing AI systems that authentically emulate human roles, personalities, and behaviors, enabling meaningful and effective participation in otganizational processes.

  • Modern architecture along the Danube river, old town, and castle of Linz

    Harald Wimmer (AT)

    Experience Linz’s unique blend of medieval heritage and striking modern architecture on a scenic walk along the Danube from the Ars Electronica Center to the historic old town and castle.

  • Object-Object Mending

    Xueyi Sun (CN)

    Focusing on reuse and repair aesthetics in urban villages, the project Object-Object Mending constructs a decentralized material ecology from items discarded by mainstream market logic. The artist will perform live repair of collected old objects, transforming them by giving them new functions.

  • Supporting your Research with the ERC

    Aneta Krzemień Barkley (PL)

    The European Research Council (ERC) supports excellent frontier research across all fields of scholarship. The session will provide an overview of ERC funding opportunities, the evaluation procedure and general advice on preparing a proposal.

  • Synthenesis

    Fara Peluso (IT/DE)

    The Synthenesis workshop explores how to build a DIY bioreactor for cultivating spirulina microalgae and producing pills. In this participatory format, participants will envision shaping the future by promoting collective practices of care and decision-making connected to well-being and empowerment.

  • What does a healthy river mean to you?

    Alexandra Albert (UK), DANUBE4all (EU)

    This interactive data “walkshop” is for anyone interested in talking about citizen data and river health while walking along the Danube.

  • Why African communities should be training, and machines learning, or maybe not?

    Ndapewa Onyothi (NA), Chris Emezue (NG), Kasia Chmielinski (US), Sanjana Paul (US), Olanrewaju Samuel (NG), Camille Minns (US)

    The workshop invites a profound exploration of the dynamic relationship between marginalized (human) communities and Artificial Intelligence, highlighting their crucial role in providing data for training AI models but also questioning the ethical implications and ownership of this process for language AI.

Please note: The program for the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 is still in progress.
We are currently preparing all the information for the website and plan to put the full program online in the coming days – stay tuned!