Festival for Families

Taking the family to Ars Electronica? Absolutely! The create your world festival in particular offers the young generation plenty of inspiration and opportunities to experiment and discover.

Ableton Open Lab

Ableton (DE), Instruments of Things (DE)

In this experimental open lab, festival-goers* can discover and expand their music programming skills. Ableton’s flagship music production software Live 11 will be on display along with IoT’s motion sensor wearable SOMI-1, offering visitors the opportunity to intuitively transform body movements into sound.

Award Ceremony u19 – create your world & Klasse! Lernen.

This Award Ceremony brings together all the winners of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica “u19-create your world” category. Not only will the young winners’ projects be presented and they will receive their prizes, but they’ll also have the opportunity to share their own enthusiasm in short interviews.

create your world

From September 7 to 11, the create your world Festival in KEPLER’S GARDENS once again invites the young generation in particular to experiment and try things out. Especially when we look into the future, we have to deal with an increasing variety of challenges. Perhaps, however, we are not thinking about a future in a hundred years, but “only” about tomorrow as a first step.

Credit: BONGOS / Sabrina Koller (AT), Martina Janjic (AT), Barbara Mendez (AT), Johanna Stefanic (AT), Photo: Florian Voggeneder

u19–create your world Exhibition

Ars Electronica (AT)

The Prix Ars Electronica in the u19—create your world category calls (up)on the next generation to submit exciting projects and ideas for the world of tomorrow. Children and young people up to the age of 19 are given a stage to show which topics they are currently dealing with.

Escape Fake

Polycular (AT): Irina Paraschivoiu (RO), Thomas Layer-Wagner (AT), Robert Praxmarer (AT), Simon Linder (AT), Jürgen Brunner (AT), Michael Kager (AT) and Julian Watzinger (AT)

In a not too distant future, humanity lives in a post-truth world. The proliferation of Fake News and Deep Fake tools used in political campaigns create a fractured, dystopian reality where it is hard to distinguish what is real and what is not. Companies working with artificial intelligence are gaining power and influence, selling the “truth” to the highest bidder(s).

Family Journey: create your world & u19

Explore the Open Labs of the create your world festival together with your family. Even the youngest visitors won’t get bored on this tour. Feel free to try out, ask questions and interact. The tour is particularly suitable for 9 to 13-year-olds.

Hebocon Reloaded

Ars Electronica create your world (AT)

The goal of this year’s Hebocon Reloaded Open Lab is to build your own low-tech robot as an “alter ego” out of various materials. The end result is a great challenge event where no winner*s are crowned, but the event itself celebrates the coming together and collaborative creative activity of festival-goers, artists, and project partners. You can invest as much time as you need to create your low-tech Heboian robot.

THE HARBOR

Virtual Office FAB Linz (AT), Bettina Gangl (AT), Reinhard Zach (AT), Edwin Husic (AT), Birgit Pölz (AT), Helmut Doblhofer (AT), Tina Pesendorfer (AT)

THE HARBOR is an augmented reality walk developed within a workshop with the youth of the Virtual Office. The Virtual Office offers computer training for young people with physical disabilities.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival – Young Animations

Every year young, gifted filmmakers from Austria submit their weird, subtle, witty, utopian, critical and dystopian works for the Prix Ars Electronica’s category of u19—create your world. They show us their strong imagination, their deep understanding of certain topics, all expressed through their abilities within one medium. This program is a selection of Animations coming from young creatives and young professionals from different age groups (17-19) and skill sets.