It’s estimated that planet Earth will have nearly 10 billion inhabitants in 2050, more than two-thirds of them living in cities. All over the world, metropolitan areas are exploding into new megacities. Homo sapiens is evolving into homo urbanicus, a being whose hopes—and, all too often, disappointments—are connected more closely than ever before to the course of “life in t...
Sonderausstellung Florian Satzinger
Of Critters, Ducks & Dragons
FR 26.2.–SA 20.3.2010


Neue Geschöpfe bevölkern die Bildwelt des Grazer Charakter Designers Florian Satzinger. Einen Einblick in die Arbeitsweise Satzingers geben die Work in Progress-Clips auf dem Videoscreen. Die Entwicklung eines neuen Charakters besteht aber nicht nur aus dem rei...
With their omnipresence having become something we take completely for granted, digital media (computer, internet, cellphone, etc.) are changing our lives—how we work, how we express and depict ourselves, how we see ourselves. We create digital doppelgänger with every e-mail we write, with every website we google, when we make photos available online or play digitally networked computer...
Three terms that describe an image of the artist, an image that is closely connected to the history of media art and that has occupied the focal point of Ars Electronica’s activities for 30 years. Artists, Creators, Engineers: creative artists at the interface of technology and society for whom the computer is tool, medium and content in equal measure. Who combine an artistic vision with a h...
New Views of Humankind
This age we live in is one dominated more than ever by science and technology. The new imaging methods used in the neurosciences observe our brain as it thinks. They show us how perception, emotions and intelligence function, and attempt to explain how our consciousness originates. Molecular biologists and genetic engineers are decoding the elementary building blocks of...
Machines that resist being harnessed as tools? Devices that would rather tell stories than raise production efficiency? The kinetic artworks in this exhibit turn movement into a fantasy-filled experience!
Wanderausstellung
FR 5.3. – SO 25.4.2010
Informatik misst, regelt, entscheidet, lenkt, empfiehlt, kommuniziert sichtbar und auch unsichtbar. Sie ist im Alltag überall und doch so versteckt, dass wir sie oft nicht wahrnehmen.
Auch das Ars Electronica Center wäre ohne Informatik nicht das, was es ist. Ob im Musikroboter „Quartet“, den interaktiven Stadt- un...
CAVE technology was yesterday. Deep Space is right now. Experience a new dimension of travel through space and time. Immerse yourself into breathtaking 3D stereo universes featuring jumbo-format, high-definition images that will absolutely blow you away!

In Deep Space, you can experience far-away, unknown and historical places. You’ll see what used to be invisible. Your perceptions of...
The entire Ars Electronica Center is a presentation venue for projects at the nexus of media art, technology, design and science.