FAQ

You would like to visit the Ars Electronica Festival, present one of your projects as an artist or join our team? Here you will find answers to frequently asked questions…

For Visitors

The Ars Electronica Festival takes place once a year in September at several locations in Linz, Austria. The Kepler Gardens at the JKUe campus in Linz will be the main stage for the first time! Next date: September 9 to 13, 2020!

The opening hours of the respective locations will be announced on this website in summer.

All festival locations are located in and around Linz and can be reached by public transport from Linz AG (tram, bus, train), bicycle or on foot.

By plane: The Blue Danube Airport Linz (LNZ) is located in Hörsching, 10 km from Linz. From there you can reach the city by bus, train or taxi.
By train: By ÖBB or by Westbahn you will reach Linz Hauptbahnhof.
By bus: Long-distance buses stop at Linz main station. The best place to find out about regional bus connections is here: OÖVV, FlixBus

Information on the Ars Electronica 2020 program will be available online on this website from April 2020. Subscribe to our Newsletter or follow us on the social media platforms!

From July 2020 on, we will start advance sales of regular tickets. Of course, you can also buy festival tickets directly on site shortly before and during the festival.

For groups of 20 persons or more, we are happy to offer customized guided tours. Send us your request to festival@ars.electronica.art!

Both the Ars Electronica Center and other festival locations in downtown Linz are largely barrier-free. However, since Ars Electronica also repeatedly plays at unusual venues designed for completely different purposes, it may occasionally happen that exhibition spaces are not barrier-free. We apologize for any inconvenience!

Unfortunately, it is not possible to take dogs and other pets into the locations of the Ars Electronica Festival.

We recommend that you book your accommodation in Linz as early as possible. We have possible locations in Linz you can find on the pages of linztourismus.at.

Our publications are distributed by the publishing house Hatje Cantz and are available both locally at Ars Electronica Center and from various online mail order companies. The festival catalogue 2020 will be published at the end of August 2020. Please also search our Online Archive for our previous publications.

For Artists

Should you require an invitation letter for your visa or for presentation at public institutions, please contact us at festival@ars.electronica.art.

Basically, there is no Open Call for the Ars Electronica Festival. All artistic program decisions are made exclusively by our artistic director. However, you can still submit your projects:

You submit your project to the Prix Ars Electronica. The renowned Media Art Award is the most important project pool for our festival program – this also applies to projects that do not receive an award at the Prix Ars Electronica! Information on submissions can be found at ars.electronica.art/prix.
If you do not wish to submit your project or if your project is not suitable for submission, please send us information about your work by e-mail to festival@ars.electronica.art

For Job Seekers

In order to be able to realize such an extensive festival as Ars Electronica, we are looking for energetic support summer after summer. We are looking for project managers, project assistants, placement staff and technicians! Keyword technicians: If you have additional knowledge in media technology, audio/video/lighting technology, carpentry, locksmithery or electrical engineering, you’ve come to the right place! Keyword: Placement staff: Do you enjoy talking to people and would you like to give our visitors of different ages and international backgrounds an understanding of the contents of our exhibitions in conversations? Please follow our job advertisements on ars.electronica.art/jobs or send us your application in evidence to jobs@ars.electronica.art!