Festival to think and talk

Future Innovators Groups

(Deutsch) Grouping of Future Innovators Summit 2014 Continue reading

Ars Electronica Residency Network Panel

The Ars Electronica Residency Network offers a highly diversified subset of individual programs that target a wide array of artists. Continue reading

BlindMaps

BlindMaps is an R&D project that aims to come up with navigation aids to make it easier and safer for blind people to get around in cities they’re unfamiliar with. Continue reading

Planted

Is sound almost completely devoid of its source’s perspective even conceivable? “Planted,” a sound installation that Young Sun Kim created during his residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, is an answer to these questions. Continue reading

Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy 2014

For the second time (after the initial collaboration in 2013), this year’s festival features the results of an Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy held at Queensland University of Technology (AU). Continue reading

Connecting Cities – The Participatory City

(Deutsch) Der Wandel des Lebensraums Stadt steht beim Connecting-Cities-Schwerpunktthema The Participatory City im Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Gefragt waren künstlerische Arbeiten im öffentlichen Raum, die neue Möglichkeiten der Interaktion von Stadt und StädterInnen auftun und ein kritisches Bewusstsein für die laufenden urbanen Veränderungsprozesse schaffen sollen. Continue reading

c – Changed Education

What’s necessary for innovation to occur? What are the preconditions for social renewal? These issues aren’t just the concern of the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival; scholars and practitioners in the field of education are working on them too. The pedagogical answers are many and varied. One especially promising one is inclusion. Continue reading

Henri. The Experiment

Divided up into five groups, young people take a close-up look at social reality. What’s the deeper meaning of the terms trust, humanity, social innovation and resilience? These concepts occupied the attention of Red Cross founder Henri Dunant, and are still deserving of consideration today. Continue reading

Forum of the Academy of Austrian Film

Why do you make films? The Academy of Austrian Film will pose a presumably simple question at the forum staged in conjunction with u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD this year. The tantalizing nature of the query is further heightened by the composition of the panel whose members will be responding from their very diverse perspectives. Continue reading

Interface Cultures: Bring Your Own Art

In keeping with Interface Culture’s openness and constant search for new topics and culturally relevant issues, Bring Your Own Art is an open invitation to artists, international partner university students, guest researchers and any potential students who are interested in the program to bring along their own art projects in the form of short presentations. Continue reading