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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Micro-Rituals for “Dystopia Land”

    Etsuko Ichihara (JP)

    In the exhibition space, Etsuko Ichihara will lead intimate, ritual-inspired interactions with visitors, exploring dystopian scenarios and world-building within the context of an alternative Japan.

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!