Festival that shows

Light is Time Folds Are Space

Light Is Time Folds Are Space are a new body of works by Matthew Gardiner that examine the relationships between light, folds and space. The works are code generated folded sculptures, fold mapped DNA-like structures, morphed with the systematic movement of light. Continue reading

Braun Tube Jazz Band

It all began with a very fruitful mistake: Japanese artist/musician Ei Wada mistakenly connected a sound cable to a video port and thereby transformed sound into an image. Wada proceeded to take advantage of the fortuitous happenstance by recording the image with a camera and playing it back as an audio signal. Continue reading

Future Innovators Exhibit

An exhibition at the Akademisches Gymnasium is dedicated to the works and projects of the Future Innovators Summit. Continue reading

Domplatz Nightline

When it gets dark in the evening, the large square in front of the Mariendom turns into a stage for luminous interactive media art projects. Continue reading

Dom Exhibit

The Mariendom will be transformed to an unique exhibition scene throughout the festival. A number of artistic installations can be experienced in the nave, the crypt and Rudiger hall. Continue reading

CADET – Center for Advances in Digital Entertainment Technologies

In the CADET – Center for Advances in Digital Entertainment Technologies research project funded by the FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency’s Cooperation & Innovation (COIN) program, the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and the Ars Electronica Futurelab are teaming up their technical capabilities and design skills to decisively strengthen Austria as a place to do business in the field of creative engineering. Continue reading

Moves Reloaded

Moves Reloaded is an interactive installation that lets visitors become a part of an endless, ever-changing choreography. An installation visitor performs three seconds of his/her best dance moves and the system records and collages them—differently every time, depending on the music. Continue reading

Spaxels Concept Demos

Ars Electronica Futurelab staffers have been doing R&D since 2012 on what they’ve dubbed spaxels (space pixels) – a swarm of quadcopters that can fly in precise formation and thus “draw” three-dimensional images in midair. Continue reading

Future Playground

Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ars Electronica Solutions invite visitors to think of what’s happening at the nexus of art, technology, society – and change. Continue reading

Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise

Questioning everything we perceive, the art project Infinite Screen is focused on the illusionary surface of images, researching the light impulse inside the hidden alphabet of invisible red, blue and green light pixels which make up all surrounding digital information, virtual image and text. Continue reading