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Events Highlights

  • The Mirage Replicas 2.0

    The Mirage Replicas 2.0

    Yen-Tzu Chang (TW)

    The work is a new media dance performance that explores generational differences within a family and culture. Starting from the story of the artist’s father capturing a golden bat, The Mirage Replicas 2.0 also addresses ecological issues related to bats. The performance incorporates bat sound data, field recordings, projected images, the mobile transparent screen displays…

  • Uperqt 

    Uperqt 

    Cod.Act, André Décosterd (CH), Michel Décosterd (CH)

    Fighting is a spectacular event, fascinating due to its intensity and the collective excitement it generates. Uperqt reproduces this deeply emotional experience in the form of a piece of music, articulated and composed in real time by the fight of two great metallic creatures. 

  • OSZILOT

    OSZILOT

    Luc Gut (CH), Rolf Hellat (CH)

    OSZILOT is a hybrid of sound installation and performance. Everyday objects suspended from strings are transformed into oscillating sound objects via movement sensors.

  • Uncanny Valley 

    Uncanny Valley 

    Stefan Kaegi (DE), Rimini Protokoll

    For Uncanny Valley the writer and playwright Thomas Melle allowed an animatronic double of himself to be made. This humanoid takes the author’s place and raises the questions: what does it mean for the original when the copy takes over? Does the original get to know himself better through his electronic double? Do the copy…

  • Ars Electronica Nightline

    Ars Electronica Nightline

    This year’s return of the festival to POSTCITY also marks the comeback of the Nightline: Following the classical sounds of the Bruckner Orchestra, the Gleishalle will become a musical playground for electronic audio-visual artists and their sound experiments like Jessiquoi, Noémi Büchi, Soraya Lutangu aka Bonaventure, Myriam Bleau and Kenji Araki.

  • Pianographique

    Pianographique

    Maki Namekawa (JP/AT), Cori O’Lan (AT)

    Fully dedicated to the quest for authenticity in artistic creation, this year’s festival’s closing concert presents Maki Namekawa performing the legendary Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett, accompanied by realtime visualizations by Cori O’Lan.

  • Big Concert Night

    Big Concert Night

    Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT) / Markus Poschner (AT), Bára Gísladóttir (IS), Def Ill (AT)

    In 2023, the motto of the Big Concert Night is UPBEAT—a new beginning and a continuation of the tried-and-true: once again, POSTCITY’s train hall will be the spectacular stage for this brilliant evening in which orchestral music and digital sounds, live electronic music and real-time visualizations will encounter each other.

  • Opening of Ars Electronica and IDSA FOUNDING LAB

    Opening of Ars Electronica and IDSA FOUNDING LAB

    On the evening of the first day of the festival, the return to POSTCITY will be duly celebrated with live performances in POSTCITY’s train hall.

  • Futurelab Night Performances

    Futurelab Night Performances

    Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    On Saturday Night, the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K will once again be filled with an electrifying atmosphere created by the Futurelab Night Performances. Visitors can enjoy a wide range of experiences circling around visualized sound, sonified biodata, and experimental live visualizations.

  • Pre-Opening Walk

    Pre-Opening Walk

    The Pre-Opening Walk takes you through downtown Linz on the eve of the Ars Electronica Festival-from the St. Mary’s Cathedral to the Stadtwerkstatt.