ARS Electronica

Ars Electronica made its debut on September 18, 1979. This festival of art, technology and society spotlighted the emerging Digital Revolution. Within a few years, Ars Electronica developed into one of the world’s foremost media art festivals. And its growing success was paralleled by the expansion of its annual lineup of events.

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The BIG PICTURE – New Concepts for a New World

(Linz, March 30, 2012) THE BIG PICTURE is the theme of the 2012 Ars Electronica Festival being held in Linz, Austria from August 30 to September 3. Occupying the focal point is the effort to identify all-encompassing images that capture the world that’s coming to be, Big Pictures that do justice to the progressive globalization and interrelatedness of our world, ones that capture its contradictions and flaws as well as ways in which people are coming together. By showcasing inspiring best-practice examples from art and science, this year’s festival is a call for a new, open-minded way of considering the development of a viable vision of our future—how such a Big Picture ought to be composed and how it might become reality.

Ars Electronica Looks Back on a Very Successful Year in 2011

(Linz, December 9, 2011) 178,000 museum visitors, 83,976 festival guests, 3,611 Prix submissions from 74 countries, the very successful launch of the new CREATE YOUR WORLD festival for young people and the start of a three-year collaboration with CERN, a 33% increase in project assignments on the books of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, excellent attendance [...]

83,976 Festivalgoers Attended Ars Electronica 2011

(Linz, September 9, 2011) The final attendance figure — 83,976 — makes Ars Electronica 2011 the second most successful festival since 1979 in terms of the number of visitors — topped only by last year’s guest appearance at Linz’s architecturally extraordinary Tabakfabrik tobacco processing plant. The excellent turnout is a tribute to the festival’s outstanding [...]

Ars Electronica 2011 Attendance Already at 69,725

(Linz, September 5, 2011) With 69,725 visitors as of 8 AM, September 5th, the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival is already a big hit! The biggest draws have been the opening event and the nightly entertainment lineup on the Maindeck of the Ars Electronica Center, Sam Auinger’s Night of Sound in St. Mary’s Cathedral, the CyberArts [...]

Public Square Squared – The Front Lines of the Info-War

Opinions differ as to whether Facebook, Twitter & Co. play a positive or a negative role now. Some claim that social media lead to freedom and democracy, and cite the successful protest movements in Egypt and Tunisia to make their case. Totally wrong, say others, bringing up how rioting in the streets of London was [...]

Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN

(Linz, September 3, 2011) Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is a new international competition for digital artists to win a residency at CERN the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. It is the first prize to be announced as part of the new Collide@CERN artists residency programme initiated by the laboratory. The winning artist will [...]

CREATE YOUR WORLD

(Linz, August 30, 2011) “CREATE YOUR WORLD – Future Festival of the Next Generation” is a new festival with the festival for young people that will be held annually in conjunction with Ars Electronica. It’s an outgrowth of the u19 – freestyle computing category, a prize competition that focuses on the use of new technologies [...]

WE GUIDE YOU

(Linz, August 28, 2011) The Ars Electronica Festival offers an appealing array of mediated encounters with festival attractions once again this year—for young and old, laypersons and experts alike. Guided tours around the festival grounds provide informative and surprising insights into media art and the natural sciences. Read more WE GUIDE YOU / rubra / [...]

Highlights of the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival

(Vienna, August 24, 2011) “ORIGIN – How It All Begins” is the title of the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival that spotlights leading-edge research on the fundamentals of the cosmos. On board this year is a renowned associate: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. This year’s highlights include an electrifying opening event on the Main [...]

The World’s Biggest Experiment

(Linz, August 17, 2011) 4,200 scientists and engineers are utilizing the CMS detector, CERN’s second largest particle detector, to discover traces of the notorious Higgs boson and supersymmetry. The tricks and strategies these researchers are employing will be the subject of a presentation by Dietrich Liko of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of High [...]

Sam Auinger – Featured Artist 2011

(Linz, August 16, 2011) Each year, the Ars Electronica Festival showcases the work of a featured artist. This year, it’s Sam Auinger (AT/DE). Since the 1980s, the Linz native has been working in computer music, sound design and psychoacoustics, fields in which he has been doing pioneering work. Read more Sam Auinger / Thekla Ehling [...]

Tesla Orchestra at Ars Electronica Festival

(Linz, August 11, 2011) The electrifying performance of the Tesla Orchestra is the featured attraction at this year’s festival opening. Fireballs, lightning, music and dance—the Tesla Orchestra (US) founded in 2009 by Ian Charnas (US) at Case Western Reserve University is a circus in grandiose style. The world’s two largest Tesla coils are the instruments [...]

The World of Macroscopic Quantum Physics

(Linz, August 9, 2011) A foretaste of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival—theme: “ORIGIN – How It All Begins”—is in store for visitors to the Ars Electronica Center Linz this coming Thursday evening. In Deep Space, where eight 1080p Barco Galaxy projectors cover the venue’s floor and walls with breathtaking high-definition images in jumbo 16×9-meter format, [...]

ORIGIN – INVESTIGATING THE BIG BANG

(Linz, August 4, 2011) The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is featured in the new exhibition at Ars Electronica Center Linz. The show spotlights the history, organization and objectives of this extraordinary research facility at which 10,000 scientists are attempting to solve the mystery of The Big Bang. Their lab is the largest piece [...]

Origin – How It All Begins / Ars Electronica Festival 2011

(Linz, May 5, 2011) “Origin – How It All Begins” is the theme of Ars Electronica 2011. It will run from August 31st to September 6th. In cooperation with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the festival will be dedicated to the fascinating world of leading-edge research on the basic principles of the cosmos. [...]

REPAIR – ready to pull the lifeline / Ars Electronica Festival 2010

The 2010 Ars Electronica Festival takes place from September 2-11, on the grounds of what used to be Linz’s tobacco processing plant (Gruberstraße 1, 4020 Linz). X THE TOPIC: REPAIR – READY TP PULL THE LIFELINE The 2010 Ars Electronica Festival is intensely focusing on humankind’s current ecological, economic and political crises. This set won’t [...]

HUMAN NATURE / Ars Electronica Festival 2009

(Linz, September 3, 2010) The HUMAN NATURE will occupy the focal point at the next Ars Electronica Festival September 3-8, 2009. In Ars Electronica’s signature fashion, this research will be carried out at an array of locations that go beyond classic conference venues and cultural spaces to pervade the entire cityscape. For the first time, [...]

A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY / Ars Electronica Festival 2008

(Linz, September 4, 2008) In 2008, Ars Electronica is scrutinizing the value of intellectual property and thereby facing one of the core issues of our modern knowledgebased society: that of freedom of information vs. copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities vs. the vision of an open knowledge-based society that seeks to build its new economy on [...]

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