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<\/a>\u201cTo some, this appears to be a \u201ccrisis of imagination\u201d because they no longer see large, spectacular plans for the future. But what has changed is not the power of imagination, the visionary courage, but the perspective. The spectacular and radical ideas are suddenly no longer concerned with growth, but with reduction. The diagram that shows the dramatic curve in which we must reduce CO\u2082 emissions in the next few years has become a new icon, the radicalness of which also shows how radical our ideas must be. What courage it takes to even think about this radicalism without losing heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nThe epicenter of Ars Electronica 2024 will once again be POSTCITY. The themed exhibition, the STARTS exhibition\u2014this year also with the award-winning projects from the first-ever STARTS Prize Africa\u2014and the Ars Electronica Gardens Exhibition will be on display here. The theme symposium and the Big Concert night will take place here and last but not least, POSTCITY will once again become the playground for create your world, the future festival of the next generation.<\/p>\n
The traditional start of the festival week is the pre-opening walk on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. The first stop is the JKU MED Campus (4:00 p.m.), where the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) of Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) shows selected projects by its students and teachers, the second stop is Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (5:30 p.m.), where the Prix Ars Electronica exhibition will be on display for the first time. It then continues at University of Arts Linz (7:00 p.m.), where the campus opens its doors and this time the Moholy-Nagy University of Budapest is presenting itself, and at Atelierhaus Salzamt (8:30 p.m.), where FH Hagenberg is putting on a show all about Interactive Media and Gaming. At the Ars Electronica Center (9:00 p.m.), the art historians and developers from Iconem Paris and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, together with Ars Electronica Futurelab, invite you to an immersive experience of world-famous art treasures in Deep Space 8K. Afterwards, night owls are in the right place at the Stadtwerkstatt (from 11 p.m.).<\/p>\n Wednesday, September 4, 2024, is not only the first day of the festival, but would also be the 200th birthday of the Upper Austrian composer and organist Anton Bruckner. Reason enough to hold this year\u2019s festival opening in St. Mary\u2019s Cathedral, where a team of artists, organists, computer scientists, and physicists not only perform Bruckner\u2019s \u201cPerger Prelude\u201d but also have it conducted by entangled photons. What do you need for this? On the one hand the cathedral organs, on the other hand an experimental high-tech laboratory made of lasers, mirrors, polarizers, and non-linear crystals. Bill Fontana\u2019s Silent Echos can also be experienced in St. Mary\u2019s Cathedral\u2014the sound installation was created in cooperation with Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 and is a powerful artistic statement on the climate crisis.<\/p>\n On Saturday, September 7, 2024, Anton Bruckner Private University invites you to Sonic Saturdayand Ars Electronica Futurelab invites you to the Futurelab Night in Deep Space 8K.<\/p>\n Sunday, September 8, 2024, Dennis Russell Davies and his Brno Philharmonic Orchestra\u2014 with the M-Concerto by Philip Glass and Maki Namekawa as soloist\u2014will bring the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 to a close in the POSTCITY track hall.<\/p>\n Around 5,000 annual submissions to the Prix Ars Electronica, the STARTS Prize and STARTS Prize Africa as well as the European Union Prize for Citizen Science, a whole series of artist residencies as part of currently more than 20 EU projects and, and, and \u2026 When it comes to designing exhibitions, the curators at Ars Electronica are spoiled for choice.<\/p>\n The exhibition on this year\u2019s festival theme will be staged in the extensive catacombs of POSTCITY. You can experience new works that were created as part of the European Media Art platform, such as the Compost as Superfood project by masharu, or the EU-funded network European Digital Deal, in which partner organizations such as Onassis Stegi (GR), waag (NL), Braga Media Arts (PT), the Center for the Promotion of Science (RS) or Kersnikova (SL). Also part of the themed exhibition is the Living Room project by Tiziano Derme and Nadine Sch\u00fctz, which won a joint award with Pro Helvetia. Together with the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Latin American projects will be presented at the festival for the third time as part of the themed exhibition, this time focusing on the use of resources in Bolivia and Argentina. There are also artistic positions from Chile\u2014continuing the seven-year collaboration with the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio and the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile.<\/p>\n In the format of \u201cState of the ART(tist),\u201d this year\u2019s Ars Electronica, together with the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, is once again presenting works by artists who are politically persecuted or threatened by environmental and natural disasters.<\/p>\n In collaboration with V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (NL), LEV Festival (ES), Kontejner (HR), iMAL (BE), and Chroniques (FR), the festival shows the exhibition \u201cRealities in Transition\u201d on Virtual & Extended Reality. The show is supported by the EU.<\/p>\n Under the title \u201cLabel4Future\u201d, an EU-funded presentation will focus on artistic and creative practices that can be groundbreaking for the development of sustainable materials, circular economy, and the Green Deal. The project is being implemented together with Creative Industry Ko\u0161ice, the European Creative Business Network, and the Austria Wirtschaftsservice AWS.<\/p>\n At the Atelierhaus Salzamt, the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria\u2014Campus Hagenberg is showing an exhibition about interactive media and gaming for the first time.<\/p>\n Lectures, discussions and workshops are another central part of the Ars Electronica program. Artists, developers, researchers and activists present their projects and positions for discussion. The most important formats include the three-day symposium on the festival theme, the S+T+ARTS Day organized in collaboration with DG Connect of the European Commission around innovation in and for the 21st century, a conference organized in collaboration with IT:U (Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria) on the topic of education, a three-day symposium on the topic of expanded animation curated by the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria\u2014Campus Hagenberg and of course the artist talks at the Prix Ars Electronica.<\/p>\n From exhibitions to performances to conferences\u2014the campus curated by University of Arts Linz combines all festival formats. More than 30 universities from all over the world are expected in 2024. The Moholy-Nagy University of Budapest presents itself as a Special Featured University at Splace on Linz\u2019 main square. The buildings of University of Arts Linz on the main square include projects from Simon Fraser University Vancouver, the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) (CA), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (CN), Bauhaus University (DE) , the Royal College of Art (RCA) (GB), Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts) (KR), Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), the School of the Arts in Qatar (QA), the Interactive Materials Lab of the National University of Singapore (SG), National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), the Center for Technology and Art (TW), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and Art and Technology Studies (ATS) (US).<\/p>\n<\/a>There will be eight additional festival locations in the city center; St. Mary\u2019s Cathedral (Mariendom), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, University of Arts Linz, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Ars Electronica Center, Stadtwerkstatt, Anton Bruckner Private University and, for the first time, the JKU MED Campus will be used.<\/p>\n<\/a>The Prix Ars Electronica Award Ceremony will take place on Thursday, September 5, 2024, and the next day, on Friday, September 6, 2024, the Cello Octet Amsterdam and visual artist Nick Verstand invite you to an unusual Big Concert night in the POSTCITY track hall. Eight musicians and eight robots stand on stage\u2014the human protagonists \u201cencircled\u201d by meter-long mechanical arms\u2014and form a \u201crobotic cocoon\u201d. In the second part of this evening, the Cello Octet Amsterdam will perform together with pianist Maki Namekawa. Afterwards, the Ars Electronica Nightline acts can be enjoyed until 4 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/a>The most important show of each festival is the Prix Ars Electronica exhibition. It will be shown for the first time in Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz in 2024 and brings together outstanding submissions from the \u201cNew Animation Art\u201d and \u201cInteractive Art +\u201d categories. The winning project of the \u201cAI in Art Award\u201d, this year awarded for the first time, will also be on display here.<\/p>\n<\/a>At the new festival location on the JKU MED Campus, students and teachers from Johannes Kepler University Linz present projects in which art and science merge in a unique way. The exhibition\u2014as well as the open call that has already been concluded\u2014is being designed and implemented by Linz Institute for Technology (LIT) at JKU.<\/p>\n