Festival for Linz Locals

No Ars Electronica Festival is like the one before – every year, it seems, the media art festival looks at the city of Linz through different glasses. If you know the venues but are curious about this year’s content, you’ll be well served by these recommendations.

Curator & Artist Journey: A parallel (r)evolution — Digital Art in Latin America

Sergio Fontanella (CL), Hemma Schmutz (AT), Christl Baur (DE/AT), Martin Honzik (AT)

Sergio Fontanella (CL), Director of Collections at Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Hemma Schmutz (AT), Artistic Director of Lentos Art Museum and curators Christl Baur (DE/AT) & Martin Honzik (AT) will guide you through the exhibition Parallel(R)evolutions. Digital Art in Latin America.

Music for Chamber Gardens – Chamber Music Paths through Kepler’s Gardens

The Bruckner Orchestra (AT) / Norbert Trawöger (AT)

Individual ensembles and soloists of the Bruckner Orchestra, together with Norbert Trawöger, their artistic director, have put together a three-hour program that transforms the Kepler’s Garden into the “Chamber Gardens of Music.”

LightSense

Uwe Rieger (DE/NZ), Yinan Liu (NZ), Tharindu Kaluarachchi (LK), Amit Barde (IN)

LightSense combines kinetic construction with 3D holographic animations. An integrated neural network allows the structure to engage in an oral conversation with the visitor while immersing the audience in Pavilions of Love, Anger, Curiosity and Joy.

Mobility of the Future Workshop

Supersense x BMW Experience Lab Project, Bernhard Böhm (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

The focus is on the question of mobility experiences on planet B. On September 8 and 9, visitors are invited to the workshop “Mobility of the Future” with sociologist Bernhard Böhm (AT) to exchange ideas and develop visions.

Pre-Opening Walk

For those who can’t wait or are already in Linz on the eve of the festival, we will walk through the exhibition venues in Linz city centre – from the St. Mary’s Cathedral, to the LENTOS Kunstmuseum, the Linz Art University and the Salzamt to the Ars Electronica Center.

WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B

We invite you to a thought experiment. Imagine yourselves in a future, in which we have successfully mastered the great challenges of the 21st century. How would we then live (together) and what would shape our society? How did we manage to achieve these goals?

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: The Artwork as a Living System

Christa Sommerer (AT), Laurent Mignonneau (FR)

The retrospective at OK Linz is a tribute to Christa Sommerer’s and Laurent Mignonneau’s life’s work as internationally active media artists, pioneers, researchers and teachers of interactive art. It shows works from the years 1991 to 2021.

The Festival University 2022

Ars Electronica (AT), JKU (AT)

200 Students — Faculty of Experts, Lecturers, Mentors, Inspirers. Global challenges of tomorrow require a new approach – one based on creativity and co-creation. The Festival University, a joint initiative between Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), invites students from around the world to jointly develop planetary strategies for change and transformation.

Transformation Lounge

Questioning learned patterns, throwing usual strategies overboard, thinking new ways and coming to common solutions – the Transformation Lounge developed together with the big Japanese advertising and PR agency Hakuhodo is not an exhibition, it is a place of encounter and discourse.

un ctrl

Daniel Kohlmeigner (AT), Martin Retschitzegger (AT), Cat Jimenez (AT) 

un ctrl is an intertwining performance between a musician, a dancer and a visual artist.

Entrepreneurship on Planet B

Karin Huber-Heim (AT), Veronika Liebl (AT), Birgit Straka (AT), Josef Scheidl (AT), Jürgen Münzner (AT), Wolfgang Holzhaider (AT), Christoph Fraundorfer (AT)

This panel focuses on the role of small and medium-sized businesses on Planet B, which traditionally represent a substantial economic factor in Austria. We will simulate our view into a world that has managed to bring economy in harmony with ecology and ask the question what kind of concepts are needed to accomplish this transformation.