WE GUIDE YOU

WE GUIDE YOU is a comprehensive program of tours that bring visitors closer to the exhibitions and projects of Ars Electronica Festival 2022. Join us on one of our daily “Spotlight Tours” in KEPLER’S GARDENS or meet artists, curators and partners for more in-depth explorations of various themes of this year’s edition. For those who would like to see more of what the festival has to offer beyond KEPLER’S GARDENS, there is an additional selection of tours you can book in other venues, such as Lentos Museum or Ars Electronica Center.

The 2022 WE GUIDE YOU program is supported by Oberösterreich Tourismus.

Information and Tickets

Due to the limited number of participants (max. 15 people/tour) it is recommended to book your WE GUIDE YOU ticket in advance via Kupf. Online ticket purchase is possible until the evening before the respective event. Depending on availability, you can also book tickets at the INFO DESK in KEPLER’S GARDENS. The meeting point for all guided tours in KEPLER’S GARDENS is at the WE GUIDE YOU MEETING POINT next to the INFO DESK. Please be there 15 minutes before the tour begins. For further questions regarding your visit please send us an E-Mail: tickets@arselectronica.art

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Tours

Time	Title
11:15 am – 12:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm	Futurelab Guided Tour ENArs Electronica Center, Foyer (Meeting Point)
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center

Time	Title
11:15 am – 12:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Futurelab Guided Tour ENArs Electronica Center, Foyer (Meeting Point)
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm	Curator Journey in STUDIO(dys)TOPIA DE, ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm	CyberArts Journey DE, ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Curator & Artist Journey: A parallel (r)evolution — Digital Art in Latin America ENLENTOS Art Museum Linz
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center

Time	Title
10:00 am – 11:30 am	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
11:15 am – 12:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	LIT Art and Science Journey DE, ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm	Futurelab Guided Tour ENArs Electronica Center, Foyer (Meeting Point)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Garden Partner Journey: V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media RotterdamKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Artist Journey with Kat Austen. Entangled with Carbon — Artistic Research into Extraction, Manipulation and Release ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Curator & Artist Journey: A parallel (r)evolution — Digital Art in Latin America ENLENTOS Art Museum Linz
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Interface Cultures Journey ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	CyberArts Journey DE, ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point

Time	Title
10:00 am – 11:00 am	Welcome to Planet B – JourneyArs Electronica Center, Foyer (Meeting Point)
10:00 am – 11:30 am	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
11:15 am – 12:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center
11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Journey S+T+ARTS Exhibition ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	International Campus Exhibition Journey ENSalzamt & Kunstuni (Meeting Point: Salzamt)
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Journey into Quantum Music ENArs Electronica Center, AIxMusic Exhibition, Floor 2 (Meeting Point)
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Curator Journey in STUDIO(dys)TOPIA DE, ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Walk & Talk through the green outdoors of Linz DEMeeting Point: Main Entrance Altes Rathaus, Main Square of Linz
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm	Futurelab Guided Tour ENArs Electronica Center, Foyer (Meeting Point)
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm	Artist Journey with Tega Brain und Sam Lavigne ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm	Welcome to Planet B – JourneyArs Electronica Center, Foyer (Meeting Point)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Garden Partner Journey: Seeds from Barcelona ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	CyberArts Journey DE, ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Spotlight Journey on Kunstuni Campus Exhibition ENMeeting point: University of Art
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point

Time	Title
11:00 am – 12:30 pm	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
11:15 am – 12:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center
11:30 am – 12:45 pm	Garden Partner Journey: Roots & Seeds ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Family Journey: create your world & u19 DEKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm	Futurelab Guided Tour ENArs Electronica Center, Foyer (Meeting Point)
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm	WE GUIDE YOU: Spotlight Journey on Planet B DE/ENKEPLER'S GARDENS, WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm	Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour DE, ENArs Electronica Center
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Spotlight Journey on Kunstuni Campus Exhibition ENMeeting point: University of Art

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?

Ars Electronica Center Highlights Tour

Artificial intelligence and the relationship between human and machine are the focus of the new exhibitions at the Ars Electronica Center. As part of a Highlight Tour, you will have the opportunity to approach the thematic focal points of the exhibitions from various perspectives.

Welcome to Planet B – Journey

Welcome to Planet B is an experiential package consisting of a themed tour, an interactive decision-making game in Deep Space 8K and a subsequent workshop add-on.

Spotlight Journey on Kunstuni Campus Exhibition

This tour focuses on the Campus Exhibition at the Linz University of Art and Design.

Journey into Quantum Music

LP Duo (RS/NL)

LP Duo (RS/NL) will demonstrate compositions written for hybrid pianos on the Bösendorfer Imperial 290 CEUS based on research and experiments done in the quantum labs with the top scientists from Universities of Delft and Copenhagen.

Futurelab Guided Tour

Ars Electronca Futurelab Researcher/Artist

Members of the Ars Electronica Futurelab invite you to embark on a tour through their visions and ideas for the future, which are distributed throughout the Ars Electronica Center.

Curator Journey in STUDIO(dys)TOPIA

Martin Honzik (AT), Christl Baur (DE/AT)

What new economic and ecological values should we embrace and how do we make them an integral part of our cultural identity?

Artist Journey with Kat Austen. Entangled with Carbon — Artistic Research into Extraction, Manipulation and Release

Kat Austen (GB/DE)

Explore the participatory media installation Carbon Echoes Trilogy on a guided tour with the artist. Kat Austen (GB/DE) talks about her practice, working methods, and research interests. The focus is on compelling environmental issues, such as the impact of fossil fuel extraction and the proliferation of microplastics on landscapes and ecosystems.

CyberArts Journey

Discover the best media art of the year! This tour will show you an outstanding selection of Prix Ars Electronica 2022 award-winning projects from the categories Computer Animation, Digital Communities and Interactive Art., u19 – create your world and Visionary Pioneers of Media Art.

LIT Art and Science Journey

Christopher Lindinger (AT), Kerstin Pell (AT)

Christopher Lindinger (AT), Vice Rector for Innovation and Researchers at Johannes Kepler University, and Kerstin Pell (AT), project manager for Art & Science, will guide you through the Linz campus and present selected projects of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT), developed by JKU researchers and exploring the synergies between art and science.

Artist Journey with Tega Brain und Sam Lavigne

Tega Brain (AU), Sam Lavigne (US)

Artists Tega Brain (AU) and Sam Lavigne (US) explore climate change as a cultural and epistemological challenge. Their projects Synthetic Messenger (2019) and Perfect Sleep (2021) showcased at Ars Electronica Festival use a blend of installation and sound art, performance, creative coding and app design in order to trigger new imaginaries which can stir us into action.

Journey S+T+ARTS Exhibition

Karla Spiluttini (AT)

Karla Spiluttini (AT) presents the STARTS Prize projects of the year. The focus is on best-practice approaches to responsible innovation in the fields of ecology, artificial intelligence, digital property, policymaking, communication and media technologies.

Interface Cultures Journey

Students from the Interface Cultures Department at the University of Art and Design Linz will guide you through their exhibition Crossing the Bridge. They will present their projects and explain the creative process behind, focusing on the close interweaving of technology and art in their works.

Garden Partner Journey: Roots & Seeds

Aitana Bellido (ES)

Many people today suffer from what is called “plant blindness,” a kind of alienation and ignorance about their botanical environment. A walk with Aitana Bellido (ES) through Kepler’s Gardens and through the Roots & Seeds exhibition will teach you how to be more aware of the green side of life using different tools of emotional cartography.

Garden Partner Journey: V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media Rotterdam

Florian Weigl (NL) Sophia Bulgakova (UA), Jeanine Verloop (NL), Mihai Gui (RO/NL) Oana Clitan (RO/NL)

The tour takes you through the exhibition of the partner institution V2_Lab for Unstable Media, an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology from Rotterdam.

Garden Partner Journey: Seeds from Barcelona

Vicente Matallana (ES), Mónica Rikić (ES), Yolanda Uriz Elizalde (ES), Sara Dean (US), Beth Ferguson (US), Marina Monsonís (ES)

Only collaborative practices, based on the transversal sharing of knowledge and efforts, can allow us to generate proposals that lead to a sustainable world.

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.

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.

International Campus Exhibition Journey

Manuela Naveau (AT), K-Arts Art and Technology Lab (KR)

During this tour you will meet alumni and professors from all over the world. The University of Art and Design Linz becomes a hotspot for exchange of international perspectives. 20 media art faculties from different countries will be present here. With a performance by K-Arts Art and Technology Lab.

Walk & Talk through the green outdoors of Linz

Barbara Veitl (AT), Hermann Rainer (AT)

	Full price	Reduced price in combination with KEPLER’S GARDENS Ticket	Reduced price in combination with FESTIVALPASS(+) or ONE-DAY-PASS
Spotlight / Expert Journeys in KEPLER’S GARDENS A parallel (r)evolution — Digital Art in Latin America Journey in Lentos Kunstmuseum	€ 9	€ 5	€ 3
Interface Cultures Journey LIT Art & Science Journey International Campus Journey Baumkronengespräche	Eintritt frei. Voranmeldung erforderlich
Highlight Journey & Welcome to Planet B Journey im Ars Electronica Center	€ 4
Futurelab Journey	Free entrance, no registration required.