This tour lacks both a theme and a destination. What it offers are plenty of ideas that’ll get you brainstorming on your own. Take a shot: no guarantees, but nothing to lose either!

Mandatory preregistration at the WE GUIDE YOU Tourist Office on the Ground Floor of the Arkade! This is also the starting point of the tour.

This tour focuses on motion pictures—prizewinning works of 3-D animation and projects singled out for recognition in the 2014 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animations/Film/VFX category. In the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival City, you can get access to some unusual apparatuses that enable you to make pictures move.

Mandatory preregistration at the WE GUIDE YOU Tourist Office on the Ground Floor of the Arkade! This is also the starting point of the tour.

This tour starts at the Ars Electronica Center with how to use a blowgun to create clouds. Then it’s on to Umbrella Radio on Hauptplatz, followed by a zigzag course though downtown Linz and the many mighty amazing projects on exhibit there. Final destination is the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival City in the Akademisches Gymnasium, where tour group members are invited to drop in on open labs.
Adults: € 15
Children: free

Mandatory preregistration at the WE GUIDE YOU Tourist Office on the Ground Floor of the Arkade as well as the info desk of the Ars Electronica Center! Starting point of this tour is the info desk of the Ars Electronica Center, ground floor.

This tour will make you smile and fill you with amazement! Behold the extraordinary new applications emerging at the interface of art and science: figures whose movements resemble those of neither humans nor machines; robots that get along nicely without electronics; a labyrinth that constantly modifies the path through it, and a door that opens only when you charge at it full-speed ahead!

Mandatory preregistration at the WE GUIDE YOU Tourist Office on the Ground Floor of the Arkade!

How long have artists been creating media art, actually? What were the first digital works of art? How can historical technologies and edifices be put to new uses? Answers to these questions are provided by Linz’s Cathedral (as event venue) as well as by the 2014 Prix Ars Electronica, which awarded its first Golden Nica to a Visionary Pioneer of Media Art this year and thus focused attention on what is actually now the rather long history of this genre.

Mandatory preregistration at the WE GUIDE YOU Tourist Office on the Ground Floor of the Arkade! This is also the starting point of the tour!

A colorful coterie of trailblazers is convening at the Future Innovator Summit to collaboratively develop new ideas. The accompanying Future Innovators Exhibit showcases the accomplishments of the members of this select circle. The Innovators Tour offers an opportunity to experience their brainstorming right up close and to get acquainted with their work.

Mandatory preregistration at the WE GUIDE YOU Tourist Office on the Ground Floor of the Arkade! This is also the starting point for all tours.

What does it take to change? How can we jointly make a positive contribution to our future? On the Change Tour, we take a variety of approaches—some playful, others profoundly serious—to art, science, culture, business and politics.

Mandatory preregistration at the WE GUIDE YOU Tourist Office on the Ground Floor of the Arkade! This is also the starting point of the tour!

The 2014 Ars Electronica Festival is taking leave of many customary venues to seek out new locations in the inner city. We’ll check out the Change Gallery in the Arkade shopping mall and discover media art from all over the world in the display windows of shops on Herrenstraße and Spittelwiese, experience the Bishop’s Residence and the Cathedral from new points of view, and encounter works that won Golden Nicas at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica. This tour includes admission to the Ars Electronica Center on the day of the tour (or on the following day for members of the 6 PM tour group).

Mandatory preregistration at the WE GUIDE YOU Tourist Office on the Ground Floor of the Arkade! This is also the starting point for all tours!

You will find an overview of all WE GUIDE YOU tours on ars.electronica.art/c/weguideyou