2. Linz, Austria - Hometown of Ars Electronica and Cultural Capital of Europe 2009
3. … changed from old industry to new
and innovative businesses and
turned into a modern cultural city.
4. Ars Electronica Timeline
Festival Ars Electronica (since 1979)
Festival for Art, Technology and Society
Prix Ars Electronica (since 1987)
international Competition for Cyberarts
Ars Electronica Center (since 1996)
Museum of the Future
Ars Electronica Futurelab
Laboratory for Future Innovations
New Ars Electronica Center
2004 2005 2009 Extension to 6500m², Opening Jan. 2009
1979 1987 1996
Ludwig Boltzmann Research Institute
Ars Electronica International for Media Art Research and Digital Archives
New York, Taiwan, Shanghai, Beijing, 4 years funding (15 staff)
Madrid, London, Kiew, Singapore,
Florence, Tunis, Geneva, Moskau …
5. Ars Electronica
Festival for Art, Technology and Society (since 1979)
The essence of the internationally renowned
Ars Electronica Festival is interdisciplinarity
and an open encounter of international
experts from the arts and sciences with a
broad audience of highly diverse
backgrounds and interests.
Annually since 1979, the Festival has
featured a lineup of symposia, exhibitions,
performances and events designed to
further an artistic and scientific confrontation
with the social and cultural phenomena that
are the consequences of technological
change.
6. 1990 – Ars Electronica Festival 1992 – Ars Electronica Festival
on Virtual Reality on Nanotechnology
7. 1998 – Ars Electronica Festival 1999 and 2000 – Ars Electronica Festivals
on Information Warfare onLife Science,
Genetic Engineering
Future of Human Reproduction
8. 2006 – Ars Electronica Festival
on making technology more human
2007 – Ars Electronica Festival
on Privacy and Surveillance
9. started together with Ars Electronica in 1979, the
“Klangwolke” represents one of the foundations of Ars
Electronica:
Reaching out for the visitors bringing art into the public
space.
Linzer Klangwolke (Cloud of Sound) Attracts up to 100.000 people every year.
1984 – “Universe” by Isao Tomita
11. Ars Electronica 1994
“Audience Participation”
by Loren Carpenter
A unique mass-audience-interaction on the main square of Linz
Over 4000 people are playing together on a large computer-screen
15. Prix Ars Electronica
International Award-Competition for Cyberarts
As the world’s premier cyberarts competition,
the Prix Ars Electronica has been a forum for
7 Categories
artistic creativity and innovation since 1987.
3.300 Entries
Price money: 127.500 €
It is the trend barometer in an ever-expanding
and increasingly diversified world of media
art.
Thanks to its annually recurring nature, its
international scope and the incredible variety
of the works submitted for prize consideration,
the enormous Prix Ars Electronica Archive
provides a detailed look at the development of
media art and a feel for its openness and
diversity.
16. Prix Ars Electronica
International Award-Competition for Cyberarts
• Computer Animation / Visual Effects (1987)
• Digital Musics (1987)
• Interactive Art (1990)
• Hybrid Art (2006)
• Digital Communities (2004)
• u19 - freestyle computing (1998)
since 1987 more than 42.000 entries from
ca. 30.000 artists from 87 nations • Award for Media.Art.Research (2006)
More than 2,2 Mio € have been given away as
price money
• [the next idea] Grant (2004)
17. Prix Ars Electronica
International Award-Competition for Cyberarts
John Lassetter,
Myron Krüger,
Peter Gabriel,
K.H. Stockhausen
Aphex Twin,
Ruichi Sakamoto,
Toshio Iwaii,
Tim Berners Lee,
Neal Stephenson,
Linus Thorwalds,
Rafael Lozano Hemmer,
Christa Sommerer,
Pixar,
Digital Domain,
Blue Sky Studios,
Tomek Baginsky
…
...
18. (the old) Ars Electronica Center
opened in 1996 as a prototype of a
"Museum of the Future.“
about 1600 m² Exhibitionspace
about 85.000 visitors per year
19. (the old) Ars Electronica Center
Its mission is to utilize interactive forms of
mediation to facilitate the general public’s
encounter with virtual reality, digital
networks and modern media.
A focus on issues at the interface of media
art, new technologies and social
developments characterizes the Center’s
innovative exhibitions.
21. Ars Electronica FutureLab
Think Tank, Laboratory for Art and Technology
The Futurelab is a new kind of media art
laboratory in which artistic and technological
innovations engender reciprocal inspiration.
The lab’s teams bring together a wide variety of
specialized skills; their approach is characterized
by interdisciplinarity and international
networking.
The Futurelab’s wide-ranging activities include
designing and engineering exhibitions, creating
artistic installations, as well as pursuing
collaborative research with universities and joint
ventures with private sector associates.
22. Ars Electronica Futurelab
• Artist in Residence Projects
• Exhibition and Museum Design
• Research & Development
• Consulting
1000 m² for Production, Studio and Offices
40 - 60 artists & researchers
Clients:
• Artists, Festivals, Museums, Concert Halls
• local Companies and gov. Institutions
• but also internationals like Siemens, Vodafon, SAP
23. „Apparition“ - Klaus Obermair /
Ars Electronica Futurelab
Interactive 3D visualisation of
Mahlers 2nd Symphony
24. Source Code - interactive art project for SAP Germany
26. In Jan. 2009 the new Ars Electronica Center new museum opened
providing 6.500m² for new exhibits, including space for events as well as
research and education.
