Media service from: 26.08.2024 |Downloads for the report
Ars Electronica – five days of concentrated creativity, spread across ten locations and eight featured locations, with almost 1,000 different offers. In 2024, the world-renowned festival for art, technology and society will once again present a variety of exhibitions, concerts, performances, conferences, workshops and guided tours, developed, staged and performed by creatives from all over the world.
This year’s theme is “HOPE – who will turn the tide”. The focus is on those people and initiatives that give us reason to hope despite all the crises. Not because they want us to believe that everything will somehow turn out well, but because they show with their creativity, competence and commitment that we can actively influence and bring about change. And that there are people all over the world who do this every day.
Highlights and premieres
This year’s Ars Electronica program is packed with top-class offerings. These include exhibitions such as the show on the festival theme, which will once again be staged in the spacious catacombs of POSTCITY, and the exhibition of the Prix Ars Electronica award winners, which will be shown for the first time in the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz. Keyword Prix Ars Electronica: The official presentation of the Golden Nicas as part of the Prix Ars Electronica Award Ceremony will premiere in 2024 in the Design Center Linz. Another novelty is the presentation of award-winning projects from the S+T+ARTS Prize Africa, which was initiated by the EU Commission in 2024 and led by Ars Electronica.
Other highlights include events such as the world premiere on September 4, the 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner, when a symbiosis of quantum physics and organ music officially opens the festival. Or the Grand Concert Night of Ars Electronica, to which this year the Cello Octet Amsterdam (NL), Nick Verstand (NL) and Maki Namekawa (AT/JP) invite, as well as the “Mishima” Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with Dennis Russell Davies (AT/US) and the Brno Filharmonie. The three-day symposium on the festival theme (5 – 7 September) will also feature top-class speakers, with Kate Crawford (AU), Vladan Joler (RS), Francesca Bria (IT), Jilian York (US), Paul Nemitz (DE), Agnes Aistleitner Kisuule (AT) (all on 5 September), Christiane Gerstetter (DE) (6 September) as well as Anil Seth (UK), Hito Steyerl (DE), Hilary Mason (US) and Paul Trillo (US) (7 September) giving lectures and discussions.
The biggest attraction for families in the region is create your world, which, as a free “festival within a festival”, once again offers numerous open labs for experimentation and trying things out.
POSTCITY and festival mile through the city centre
A total of 18 locations in Linz city center will be used as part of Ars Electronica 2024. The central location is the spectacular POSTCITY, which will become a stage for ideas, visions and projects between art, technology and society on 80,000 square meters. Other venues include the Mariendom, the Linz Art University, the Lentos Art Museum Linz, the Salzamt Atelierhaus, the Ars Electronica Center, the Stadtwerkstatt and the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. New locations for the festival are the MED Campus of the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the Design Center.
The participation of the independent scene, local initiatives and companies is particularly pleasing, which expresses the joint commitment of Linz’s city life. Featured locations include the Damen&Herrenstraße cultural association (DH5), FIFTITU%, the Innovationshauptplatz Linz PopUp Store, OK Linz, Francisco Carolinum Linz, the KEBA InnoSpace, the Theater Phönix and the Kunstraum Memphis.
(Information document for the press conference with City Councillor for Culture Doris Lang-Mayerhofer, Brigitte HütterRector of the Art University Linz, Stefan KochRector of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Stefanie LindstaedtFounding President of IT:U, Martin RummelRector of the Anton Bruckner Private University, At home SchmutzArtistic Director, Lentos Art Museum Linz, Norbert TrawoegerArtistic Director OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 & Artistic Director Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Jürgen HaglerDirector Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Horst HörtnerSenior Director Ars Electronica Futurelab, Michael MondriaManaging Director Ars Electronica Solutions, Veronika LieblManaging Director Ars Electronica Festival, Christl BaurHead of Ars Electronica Festival und Gerfried StockerArtistic Director Ars Electronica zum Thema „HOPE – who will turn the tide“)
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