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Lunchbox 1 / Mentor Session: Robert Madelin

Experienced professionals meet young innovators, answer questions, give suggestions and feedback as well as insights into their own work. With Robert Madelin (UK/BE), director general of DG Connect of the European Commission. Continue reading

Innovators Breakfast – A/B Group

The Future Innovators Summit begins on Thursday with the first communal breakfast in Arkadenhof. The members of Working Groups A and B will present their projects and ideas. Continue reading

Opening

The grand finale of the elaborate Opening Parcours is the official opening event of the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival, a not so ceremonious and rather more playful-sensorial form of entertainment in St. Mary’s Cathedral and on the plaza in front of it. Continue reading

Opening Parcours

Kicking off the festival is an elaborate Opening Parcours presenting all projects and festival venues, and thus a perfect opportunity to get an overview and to meet & greet artists and curators. Continue reading

ICT ART CONNECT.study roundtable / Lunchbox 2

What is the outcome if work on novel ICT – Information and Communication Technologies –is linked with artistic expression? This is the question asked by the study ICT Art Connect funded by the European Commission (DG CONNECT) and the question raised during the roundtable. Following a trend towards convergence of all domains of knowledge, the Arts are gaining prominence as a catalyst for radical transformations of R&D&I practices. 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

Deep Space LIVE: Touching

Touching seeks to propagate sound in space and to carry on a dialog – of the two performers with one another as well as with the space and the sound. They animate, spatialize and modify concrete tonal material and interlink it with visuals designed especially for this performance. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: Hermann Nitsch – Sinne und Sein

Painter/actionist Hermann Nitsch, one of the most important contemporary artists, is making a guest appearance in Deep Space. All the highpoints of Nitsch’s oeuvre – Viennese actionism, his famous splatter paintings, the Orgiastic Mystery Theater—have triggered heated discussions. Continue reading