Ars Electronica Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society which was part of the International Bruckner Festival. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its Director until 1995 was Peter Weibel In addition to running the yearly festival, Ars Electronica currently maintains a media center/museum, the Ars Electronica Center, which was opened in 1996 and offers tours and courses and hosts a technology lab. Starting in 1987, it also began hosting the Prix Ars Electronica, awarding prizes and generating publicity for outstanding cyberarts innovations.

"Ars Electronica stands for the world’s leading media arts festival, a superlative state-of-the-art museum, and an innovative R&D facility. The Ars Electronica Festival, the Ars Electronica Center – Museum of the Future, and the Ars Electronica Futurelab are big draws that attract visitors, tourists, clients and associates from throughout Upper Austria and around the world." -- from a 2003 Ars Electronica press release.

Table of contents

1 Parts of Ars Electronica 1.1 Center 1.2 Futurelab 1.3 Festival 1.4 Prix 2 External links

Parts of Ars Electronica

.]] In the real as well as in the virtual world, Ars Electronica consists of several parts:

Center

The "Ars Electronica Center - Museum of the future" is located in Linz, Austria, Europe. It is the leading museum of digital art and media art. Opened in 1996, the center presents computer art on an 2000 square meter area.

Futurelab

Futurelab is an interdiciplinary research-project reuniting art, technology and society.

Festival

Chronologically the festival was the starting point of Ars Electronica in 1979. It is the most important festival of digital art world wide. The festival is conducted under a different motto each year. The years from 1979 to 1986 are untitled.

• 1987 Free Sound
• 1988 The Art of Scene
• 1989 In the Network of Systems
• 1990 Digital Dreams - Virtual Worlds
• 1991 Out of Control
• 1992 Endo & Nano - The World From Within
• 1993 Genetic Art - Artifical Life
• 1994 Intelligent Environment
• 1995 Welcome to the Wired World - Mythos Information
• 1996 Memesis - The Future of Evolution
• 1997 FleshFactor - Informationsmaschine Mensch
• 1998 Infowar - information.macht.krieg
• 1999 LifeScience
• 2000 NEXT SEX - Sex in the Age of its Procreative Superfluousness
• 2001 'Takeover' - Who's doing th art of tomorrow
• 2002 'Unplugged' - Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts
• 2003 'Code' - The Language of Out Time
• 2004 'Timeshift - The World in 25 Years'

Prix

The Prix Ars Electronica is often called the Oscar of computer art. See Prix Ars Electronica

External links

• Ars Electronica Center main page
• The AEC FutureLab, "750 m² of computer workplaces, studios... and office space"

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