Ars Electronica Center




This year's Festival is of particular significance, marking as it does the inauguration of a new phase of the Ars Electronica project. In the past, Ars Electronica has appeared only as an annual highlight, concentrated into a few days' duration, in the local and international calendar of events. Now, with the opening of the Ars Electronica Center, not only will there be a marked increase in activities, but equally an expansion in chronological terms. In the form of the Center, Ars Electronica is now a permanent presence.
With the Ars Electronica Center, a centre of competence for new, interdisciplinary knowledge at the interfaces of the arts, culture, technology and society has been created.

The Ars Electronica Center is an institution of the municipality of Linz. It has been made possible with considerable support from the state of Upper Austria and the Federal Government, and co-operation with the following corporations:

CREDITANSTALT
Digital Equipment Österreich AG
Hewlett-Packard
Microsoft Austria
Österreichische Brau AG
Österreichischer Rundfunk
Oracle GmbH
Quelle Versand
Ericsson Austria
Siemens Nixdorf
Silicon Graphics Österreich
S plus S

The Ars Electronica Festival 96 is sponsored by

Stadt Linz
Land Oberösterreich
BM für Wissenschaft, Verkehr & Kunst

and further supported by:

EDV-Zentrum der Johannes Kepler-
Universität Linz
GCA – Linz
Gerhard Andlinger Foundation
Post und Telekom Austria
Siemens AG & Siemens Nixdorf
VOEST-ALPINE STAHL