Conferences

Ars Electronica offers you an almost overwhelming range of exciting talks, lectures and conferences on the central issues of our future. The large, two-day symposium on the festival’s annual theme brings together renowned experts and pioneers from the fields of science, art, design and technology. Innovation for and from Europe is the focus of the STARTS Day, which features creative minds and groundbreaking cooperation projects between science, technology and arts. Virtually next door to the CyberArts exhibition, you can hear and meet the winners of the Golden Nicas of the Prix Ars Electronica at the Prix Forums. In the Gallery Spaces, artists, gallery owners and curators will discuss the disruptive consequences of digitalization for the art market. The Future Innovators Summit is dedicated to interdisciplinary and cross-industry art thinking and the development of relevant questions about the future. The Expanded Animation Conference discusses trends in the field of computer animation beyond the mainstream. And so much more.

The detailed program of the next Ars Electronica Festival will be online next summer.

Symposium: The two-day symposium on the annually changing festival theme is the most important conference of any Ars Electronica.

STARTS-Day: STARTS is an initiative of the European Commission and features innovative cooperation between industry and arts.

Prix Forums: The Prix Forums offer the opportunity to meet award-winning artists from all over the world in person.

Gallery Spaces Panels: At the Gallery Space Panels, experts discuss the transformation and future of the media art market.

Future Innovators Summit: Be inspired when artists, designers, scientists, technicians, entrepreneurs, social activists and philosophers discuss new ways of collective brainstorming and creative prototype development.

Expanded Animation: The top-class conference is dedicated to new trends in the field of animation.