Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, September 6 – 10, 2023
Join our Events, Concerts and Performances!
Experience the Ars Electronica in extraordinary concerts and performances at unusual venues: from classical music or experimental Nightline-programs in POSTCITY’s abandoned train hall to heated game show-battles against other visitors using text-to-image software.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Medium Sonorum Concert
Sonic Lab, ABPU
Dive deep into freshly made immersive electronic music with the 20.4 system of the Sonic Lab. This is a concert designed to perceive spatial music selected from the call for contributions that relates to Manufacturing Audible Truth. The program shows a variety of styles of multichannel music from around the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Prompt Battle
Florian A. Schmidt (DE), Sebastian Schmieg (DE)
Prompt Battle is a live game show format where people compete against each other using text-to-image software. Show off your prompt skills and maybe the audience will choose you as the winner who elicited the most surprising, disturbing or beautiful images from the latent space of DALL·E. Do you have what it takes to become…
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Space Messengers
Josef Dorninger (AT), STEMarts LAB
Space Messengers is a participatory mixed reality installation that visualizes reflections on the universe, encouraging participants to contemplate their role within it. It evolved from a collaboration among artists, scientists, experts and youth ambassadors exploring how to deepen our understanding of the universe and expand our identities as planetary citizens.
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Syntax-2
Kyoka (JP/DE), Ali Mahmut Demirel (TR/DE)
This performance is the collaboration between “New Music Syntax” by Kyoka, and “Rockforms” by Ali M. Demirel.
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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…
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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…
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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.
Immerse yourself in the Deep Space 8K!
Stunning visuals, exciting stories and immersive experiences, combined with impressive image quality, color brilliance and 3D stereo: The Ars Electronica Center’s interactive playground is packed with media art, performances and action!
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5th VH Award
Hyundai Motor Group
Established in 2016 by Hyundai Motor Group, the VH AWARD is Asia’s premier award platform, committed to identifying and nurturing emerging artists in Asia who actively explore the intricacies of Asia and its future.
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Deep Stage – Part I
Marc-André Cossette (CA), Alexandre Saunier (FR), Carlotta Borcherding (DE), Gerald Peter (AT)
A carefully curated evening program full of inspiring and stunning audio-visuals by international artists.
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Deep Stage – Part II
Erick Aguirre (MX), Kevin Blackistone (US), Jiaji Cheng (CN), Danica Golić (RS), Kathrine Hardman (US), Eunji Ji (KR), Polina Kliuchnikova (RU), Kateryna Pomeichuk (UA), Yuma Yanagisawa (JP), Razieh Kooshki (IR), Vahid Qaderi (IR)
A carefully curated evening program full of inspiring and stunning audio-visuals by international artists.
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Deep Sync
Susanne Kiesenhofer (AT), Anna Oelsch (DE/AT), Daniel Rammer (AT)
Deep Sync creates an interactive playground for sound and visuals in the immersive Deep Space 8K environment, inviting visitors to experiment with the correlation between psychological and physiological processes.
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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.
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Meet the Artist: Miwa Matreyek
Miwa Matreyek (Golden Nica for Computer Animation 2020) will be presenting a shortened documentation video of her 2020 performance work, Infinitely Yours. She creates live performances integrating her kaleidoscopic animations with her body in shadow from behind the screen.
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Project Humanity
Project Humanity (JP)
Project Humanity is an R&D project that explores human’s own potential from undiscovered perspectives. In this program we will present our new project that aims to restore physical freedom to people with ALS in a completely new approach. Immerse yourself in a new mixed reality musical performance.
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reconFIGURE
Florian Bruggisser (CH), Chris Elvis Leisi (CH), Chris Salter (US/CH), Martin Fröhlich (CH), Pascal Lund-Jensen (CH)
reconFIGURE allows you to experience directly how your body and soul are captured and reimagined by AI systems. Both humorous and at the same time, unsettling, reconFIGURE fulfils the promise made in the title: It takes the image of your body and reconfigures it the way a machine might see and understand you.
Experience Extended Reality…
How can we distinguish what is fake and what is a reality? And if there is a digital reality, is there also a digital truth? Immerse yourself in the countless XR projects featured at this year’s Campus exhibition and ponder on your own definitions of reality and truth.
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Digital Orbuculum
National University of Theatre and Film “I. L. Caragiale”, Master of Interactive Technologies for Performing and Media Arts (RO)
If there is a digital reality, is there also a digital truth? The digital world grows daily extending our interactions and worlds. Digital Orbuculum dives into digital reality looking for magical truth in its chaos.
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FRAMELESS
Korea National University of Art | K-ARTS (KR), Pohang University of Science and Technology (KR)
FRAMELESS: A unique convergence of art and technology in the metaverse, where virtual reality performances and artworks meet immersive multisensory experiences.
…or take the Wheel in one of our XR Workshops!
Choose your own adventure, reclaim the metaverse and help write a manifesto: In these workshops you can get active and extend your own reality.
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Critical XR Manifesto: Exploring ethical dimensions of XR
Boris Debackere (BE), Aurelie Delater (FR), Vanessa Hannesschläger (AT), Alisa Verbina (RU)
The Critical XR Manifesto workshop sets out to reimagine and expand on the current notions of XR while following a critical, reflective line of thought and envisioning a common, open, sustainable XR as promoted by the Realities in Transition project. The interactive workshop addresses XR artists and professionals from Europe and beyond, inviting them to…
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CripTech Lab: Metaverse Reclaimed
Vanessa Chang (US), Lindsey Felt (US)
Who owns the metaverse? XR is celebrated as a space of profound possibility where a user can transcend their physical limitations. Yet the reality is that the metaverse remains inaccessible to many. What would a metaverse, collaboratively built and governed, look and feel like? Using speculative storytelling and worldbuilding protocols, this design lab invites participants…
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Build your Own Virtual Avatar
Paula Strunden (AT)
Discover the world of embodied virtual world creation in this interactive workshop. You’ll learn how to create your own virtual avatar wearing VR headsets and using 3D modelling software Gravity Sketch and auto-rigging software Adobe Mixamo. Step beyond the conventional perception of virtual reality as an escape from reality and explore new forms of hybrid…
Meet the Prix Ars Electronica Winners!
Every year, the Prix Ars Electronica spotlights media artworks from all over the world and serves as a trend barometer offering inspiring, current and forward-looking insights. Experience this year’s winning projects in the category ‘Digital Musics and Sound Art’ and listen to the artist’s perspectives at the Prix Ars Electronica Forum.
