Ars Electronica

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ars Electronica logo

The Ars Electronica ( Latin Electronic Art ) is a festival for the presentation and promotion of art in close connection with ( digital ) technology and social issues , which takes place annually in Linz ( Upper Austria ). The organizer is Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute that is active in the field of new media art and was founded in Linz in 1979. It is based in the Ars Electronica Center, which houses the Museum of the Future, in the city of Linz. The interactions between art, technology and society are at the heart of Ars Electronica's activities.

history

Ars Electronica Center 2009
Foyer in the Brucknerhaus, AE Festival 2013

The first Ars Electronica was opened on September 18, 1979 as part of the international Bruckner Festival together with the first Linz Klangwolke and the music of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony . The metal forum is sometimes mentioned as a project forerunner . The festival was initiated by Hannes Leopoldseder from ORF - Upper Austria and Horst Stadlmayr , artistic director of the Brucknerhaus in Linz . The festival initially took place every two years and since 1986 annually. It is financed by the City of Linz, the Province of Upper Austria and the Republic of Austria as well as private partners. The conception of Ars Electronica as a forum for the exchange of ideas and a place for the presentation of projects at the interface of art, technology and society went to Hannes Leopoldseder, director of the ORF regional studio Upper Austria, the electronic musician Hubert Bognermayr , the music producer Ulrich Rützel and the cyberneticist and physicist Herbert W. Franke back. This series of events was one of the first worldwide to deal with digital art and its possibilities as well as the social effects of digital technology .

Components of Ars Electronica

Prize winner of the Prix Ars Electronica 2013

In both the real and the virtual world, Ars Electronica comprises the following parts:

  • Ars Electronica Center (AEC): The “ Ars Electronica Center - Museum of the Future” in Linz is the leading museum for digital and media art. It was opened in 1996 and presents 3000 m² of projects related to computer art and technology. For the 2009 Capital of Culture year, the AEC was doubled in size towards the east.
  • Ars Electronica Futurelab: The Futurelab pursues interdisciplinary research projects in the field of tension between art, technology and society.
  • Ars Electronica Festival: See below.
  • Prix ​​Ars Electronica: The Prix ​​Ars Electronica , sometimes referred to as the “ Oscar ” of computer art, is awarded annually to projects in the field of digital art and media. The award is currently (2013) in the following categories:
    In addition to the awards from the Prix Ars Electronica, other prizes and grants are also awarded, currently these are:
    • [the next idea] Art and Technology Grant
    • Collide @ CERN
    • OHMI-Ars Electronica Prize

festival

The Brucknerhaus during the AE Festival 2008
AE Festival 2010 in the tobacco factory
Ars Electronica Center during the 2012 festival

The Ars Electronica Festival, the cornerstone of Ars Electronica, has been held annually in Linz since 1979, accompanied by a great deal of media coverage. It is the most important international festival of digital art , which presents trends and long-term developments in a future-oriented way in the form of artistic works, discussion forums and scientific support. Until 1995 it was managed by Peter Weibel , since 1996 by Gerfried Stocker .

Exhibitions and performances take place in the Ars Electronica Center, in the Brucknerhaus, in the Lentos , in the rooms of the University for Artistic and Industrial Design and at various other locations in Linz. Only in 2010 were all exhibitions, symposia and the awarding of the Prix Ars Electronica brought together in one place, the buildings of the former Linz tobacco factory .

The focus is on various collaborations with research institutions such as the University of Tokyo (2008), the MIT Media Lab (2009) or the Japan Media Arts Festival (2009), which will present their activities as part of the festival. Media art projects funded by Ars Electronica take place regularly in cooperation with companies and research institutions such as CERN .

During the festival, in addition to the exhibitions, symposia on techno-cultural phenomena and the philosophical-theoretical aspects of technological development will be held with the participation of international experts.

The festival has a different motto every year:

  • 1987 "The free sound"
  • 1988 "Art of the Scene"
  • 1989 "In the network of systems"
  • 1990 "Digital dreams, virtual worlds"
  • 1991 "Out of Control"
  • 1992 "Endo Nano"
  • 1993 "Genetic Art, Artificial Life"
  • 1994 "Intelligent Ambience"
  • 1995 "Welcome to the Wired World"
  • 1996 "Memesis"
  • 1997 "Flesh-Factor"
  • 1998 "Infowar"
  • 1999 "Life Science"
  • 2000 "Next Sex"
  • 2001 "Takeover"
  • 2002 "Unplugged"
  • 2003 "Code - The Language of our Time"
  • 2004 "Timeshift - The World in 25 Years"
  • 2005 "Hybrid - Living in Paradox"
  • 2006 "Simplicity - The art of complexity"
  • 2007 "Goodbye Privacy"
  • 2008 "A New Cultural Economy - when property reaches its limits"
  • 2009 "Human Nature"
  • 2010 "repair - can we still be saved"
  • 2011 "Origin - how it all begins"
  • 2012 "THE BIG PICTURE"
  • 2013 "TOTAL RECALL - The Evolution of Memory"
  • 2014 "C - What it takes to change"
  • 2015 "POSTCITY - living spaces for the 21st century"
  • 2016 "RADICAL ATOMS and the alchemists of our time"
  • 2017 "Artificial Intelligence - The Other Me"
  • 2018 "ERROR: the Art of Imperfection"
  • 2019 5-9 September: “Out of the Box - The Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution ” / Visualized Klangwolke on September 7th.

Web links

Commons : Ars Electronica  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ars Electronica Festival in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  2. ^ Ars Electronica: Ars Electronica Festival> About
  3. ^ Ars Electronica Center. Accessed June 12, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ City of Linz: Ars Electronica Center. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ ohmi.aec.at
  6. ↑ Ars Electronica and CERN: Collide @ CERN Digital Arts prize
  7. ^ History of Ars Electronica
  8. ↑ Link to the archive
  9. ↑ Information about the festival on the organizer's website, accessed on August 2, 2019.