Highlight
Project %, Blue Tears and Sandbox – The Taiwan Special
Lien-Cheng Wang (TW), Aluan Wang (TW), Jinyao Lin (TW), Hsiao-Yue Tsao (TW), Chin-Hsiang Hu (TW), Tzu-Liang Chen (TW), Yu-Hao Lee (TW)
Based on Project Percentage by FAB DAO (Formosa Art Bank DAO), three Taiwanese audiovisual artists, Lien-Cheng Wang, Aluan Wang, and Jin-Yao Lin, will have a 30 minutes long show at Deep Space. The performance uses Taiwan’s mountain ridges as materials to outline the mountains in the digital world.
S+T+ARTS Prize Exhibition
STARTS Prize 2022
The exhibition presents numerous innovative and prototypical projects that have been awarded the European Commission's STARTS Prize 2022 for their groundbreaking collaborations between science, technology and art.
CyberArts Exhibition
Prix Ars Electronica 2022
The CyberArts exhibition has always been one of the most outstanding parts of the festival’s program. The exhibition presents the works of the Prix Ars Electronica winners, who were selected by experts from all over the world.
Prix Day
SUN, September 11
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition since 1987, and from its inception, it has kept working as a trend barometer that continues to change with the times. Along with the CyberArts exhibition, the Prix Forum is always one of highlights of the Ars Electronica Festival and a great opportunity to get to know the Prix Ars Electronica winning artists.
STUDIOTOPIA Day
SAT, September 10
In keeping with the festival theme, both speakers and audiences of the STUDIOTOPIA Day conference program are challenged to reflect creatively and critically about ecological and sociopolitical implications of the Anthropocene.
S+T+ARTS Day
FRI, September 9
Guided by the belief that artistic perspectives can contribute to innovation beyond the arts and culture realm, the S+T+ARTS initiative of the European Commission strives to give artists a leading role in research and innovation activities with an impact on industry and society. Through a series of talks, discussions, and networking events the conference addresses the ways in which Innovation through art-driven interdisciplinary collaborations can contribute to mapping responsibilities as well as solutions for challenges posed in both the digital and the analogue world.
Futurelab Day
THU, September 8
The Ars Electronica Futurelab is the think-and-do tank of the Ars Electronica, developing new concepts for an autonomous future society in an inspiring field of tension between disciplines and transnational cooperation, all the while placing humans at the center of its research.
Laurie Anderson in Concert — Songs for Amelia Earhart
Laurie Anderson (US), Filharmonie Brno (CZ), Dennis Russell Davies (US/AT), Rubin Kodheli (US)
At this year’s festival Laurie Anderson is to be awarded the Golden Nica for Visionary Pioneers, a wonderful opportunity to present one of her latest musical works. This is a composition for orchestra, voice, electronics, violin and cello, performed by the Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies with Laurie Anderson and Rubin Kodheli, who plays the solo cello.
Gigapixel Images from the Vatican Museums — The Frescoes by Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel: Beauty Leading to Faith
Dr. Barbara Jatta (IT), Dr. Rosanna Di Pinto (IT)
For the first time, the Vatican Museums will be guests at the Ars Electronica Center for a special Cultural Heritage Series based on a cooperation with the Vatican Museums and the Embassy of Austria to the Holy See in Rome. Gigapixel images of two outstanding artworks by the Great Master Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel — the main Chapel in the Pope’s Palace — will be presented at Deep Space 8K.
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.
