Art - Technology - Society

Linz, Austria - Hometown of Ars Electronica and Cultural Capital of Europe 2009

… changed from old industry to newand innovative businesses and turned into a modern cultural city.

Extension to 6500m², Opening Jan. 2009

1996

Ars Electronica Center (since 1996)Museum of the Future

Festival Ars Electronica (since 1979)Festival for Art, Technology and Society

Ars Electronica FuturelabLaboratory for Future Innovations

Prix Ars Electronica (since 1987) international Competition for Cyberarts

1987

2005 2009

Ludwig Boltzmann Research Institute for Media Art Research and Digital Archives 4 years funding (15 staff)‏

New Ars Electronica Center

Ars Electronica InternationalNew York, Taiwan, Shanghai, Beijing,Madrid, London, Kiew, Singapore,Florence, Tunis, Geneva, Moskau …

2004

Ars Electronica Timeline

1979

Ars ElectronicaFestival for Art, Technology and Society (since 1979)

The essence of the internationally renowned Ars Electronica Festival is interdisciplinarity and an open encounter of international experts from the arts and sciences with a broad audience of highly diverse backgrounds and interests.

Annually since 1979, the Festival has featured a lineup of symposia, exhibitions, performances and events designed to further an artistic and scientific confrontation with the social and cultural phenomena that are the consequences of technological change.

1990 – Ars Electronica Festival on Virtual Reality

1992 – Ars Electronica Festival on Nanotechnology

1998 – Ars Electronica Festival on Information Warfare

1999 and 2000 – Ars Electronica Festivals onLife Science,

Genetic EngineeringFuture of Human Reproduction

2006 – Ars Electronica Festival on making technology more human

2007 – Ars Electronica Festival on Privacy and Surveillance

started together with Ars Electronica in 1979, the “Klangwolke” represents one of the foundations of Ars Electronica:

Reaching out for the visitors bringing art into the public space.

Attracts up to 100.000 people every year.

1984 – “Universe” by Isao Tomita

Linzer Klangwolke (Cloud of Sound)

1984 – “Universe” by Isao Tomita

Ars Electronica 1994

“Audience Participation”by Loren Carpenter

A unique mass-audience-interaction on the main square of Linz

Over 4000 people are playing together on a large computer-screen

Ars Electronica 2002 – Bodymovies by Rafael Lozano Hemmer

Ars Electronica 2002 – Bodymovies by Rafael Lozano Hemmer

Ars Electronica 2002 – Bodymovies by Rafael Lozano Hemmer

7 Categories

3.300 Entries

Price money: 127.500 €

Prix Ars ElectronicaInternational Award-Competition for Cyberarts

As the world’s premier cyberarts competition, the Prix Ars Electronica has been a forum for artistic creativity and innovation since 1987.

It is the trend barometer in an ever-expanding and increasingly diversified world of media art.Thanks to its annually recurring nature, its international scope and the incredible variety of the works submitted for prize consideration, the enormous Prix Ars Electronica Archive provides a detailed look at the development of media art and a feel for its openness and diversity.

• Computer Animation / Visual Effects (1987)

• Digital Musics (1987)

• Interactive Art (1990)

• Hybrid Art (2006)

• Digital Communities (2004)

• u19 - freestyle computing (1998)

• Award for Media.Art.Research (2006)

• [the next idea] Grant (2004)

Prix Ars ElectronicaInternational Award-Competition for Cyberarts

since 1987 more than 42.000 entries from ca. 30.000 artists from 87 nations

More than 2,2 Mio € have been given away as price money

John Lassetter,Myron Krüger, Peter Gabriel,K.H. StockhausenAphex Twin, Ruichi Sakamoto, Toshio Iwaii,Tim Berners Lee, Neal Stephenson, Linus Thorwalds, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Christa Sommerer,Pixar, Digital Domain, Blue Sky Studios,Tomek Baginsky

…...

Prix Ars ElectronicaInternational Award-Competition for Cyberarts

(the old) Ars Electronica Center

opened in 1996 as a prototype of a

"Museum of the Future.“

about 1600 m² Exhibitionspace

about 85.000 visitors per year

Its mission is to utilize interactive forms of mediation to facilitate the general public’s

encounter with virtual reality, digital networks and modern media.

A focus on issues at the interface of media art, new technologies and social

developments characterizes the Center’sinnovative exhibitions.

(the old) Ars Electronica Center

Humphrey

Gullivers World

Ars Electronica FutureLabThink Tank, Laboratory for Art and Technology

The Futurelab is a new kind of media art laboratory in which artistic and technological innovations engender reciprocal inspiration.

The lab’s teams bring together a wide variety of specialized skills; their approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity and international networking.

The Futurelab’s wide-ranging activities include designing and engineering exhibitions, creating artistic installations, as well as pursuing collaborative research with universities and joint ventures with private sector associates.

Ars Electronica Futurelab

• Artist in Residence Projects

• Exhibition and Museum Design

• Research & Development

• Consulting

1000 m² for Production, Studio and Offices

40 - 60 artists & researchers

Clients:

• Artists, Festivals, Museums, Concert Halls

• local Companies and gov. Institutions

• but also internationals like Siemens, Vodafon, SAP

„Apparition“ - Klaus Obermair / Ars Electronica Futurelab

Interactive 3D visualisation of Mahlers 2nd Symphony

Source Code - interactive art project for SAP Germany

INSTAR – prototype for a future car navigation system

In Jan. 2009 the new Ars Electronica Center new museum opened

providing 6.500m² for new exhibits, including space for events as well as

research and education.

Architect: Andreas Treusch

Architect: Andreas Treusch

Research and Development

Exhibition and Education

Events and Presentations