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Photo: Life Ink / Maki Namekawa (JP) – Wacom Co., Ltd. & Ars Electronica Futurelab, Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Festival for Art, Technology and Society
September 3-7, 2025
The next Ars Electronica Festival will take place in Linz, Austria, from September 3-7, 2025! In the meantime, follow us on our social media channels and subscribe to our newsletter. We are looking forward to your visit!
Please note!
Here you can find general information about the Ars Electronica Festival.
Specific program details for the 2025 Ars Electronica Festival will be announced in the spring.
Festival for Art, Technology and Society
September 3-7, 2025
Linz, Austria
Experience firsthand how new technologies are changing our lives. Discover for yourself how machine learning, VR, robotics or biotech can contribute to socially and ecologically sustainable progress. Discuss at eye level what rights and obligations we should have as digital citizens. Getting to know people from all over the world who want to help shape the future of all of us critically but optimistically. Ars Electronica stands for all of this. We’re looking forward to you being a part of it, too!
4D box / SH4D0W – An AI Performance in 3D / Mikael Fock, Carl Emil Carlsen, Emilie Rasmussen, Cecilie Waagner, Falkenstrøm, Yann Coppier, Vertigo, Credit: Florian Voggeneder
ECOLALIA / Klaus Spiess, Ulla Rauter, Emanuel Gollob, Rotraud Kern, Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Commissioned Projects
Throughout the year, we collaborate with partners worldwide to promote artists, launching Open Calls, curating exhibitions and conferences, and more. These commissioned activities culminate in the presentation of their outcomes at the Ars Electronica Festival in September.
CRYPTID / Michael Candy, Credit: vog.photo
in the rain / Yuki Anai, Hideaki Takahashi, Credit: vog.photo
Evanescent / Jeanine Verloop, Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Sleep Study / Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, Credit: tom mesic
PL’AI / Špela Petrič, Credit: vog.photo
Exhibitions
Ars Electronica is one of the world’s top addresses for media art. At the festival, you’ll meet the Who’s Who of the international media art scene as well as young shooting stars who are just starting to make a name for themselves. First and foremost, we’d like to recommend one of the many exhibitions, the Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, where you can see the best media art works of the year that have been honored by the international jury of the prestigious competition.
Another “must” is the large exhibition on the festival’s respective annual theme, where artistic positions are always presented in a spectacular way. Be inspired by groundbreaking collaborations between science, technology and art at the STARTS Prize Exhibition! Every year, several dozen international universities use Ars Electronica as a platform and present impressive results of their educational programs at the interface of art and technology in the Campus Exhibition.
Arena / Ugo Dehaes, Credit: Gregor Tatschl
ArchaeaBot / Anna Dumitriu, Alex May, Credit: Vanessa Graf
The Transparency Of Randomness / Vera Tolazzi, Mathias Gartner, Credit: vog.photo
Oceans in Transformation / Territorial Agency – John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Credit: vog.photo
Project Alias / Bjørn Karmann, Tore Knudsen, Credit: Jürgen Grünwald
The festival is getting closer!
| January 2025 | Start of the submission phase for the Prix Ars Electronica and STARTS Prize |
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| March 2025 | Deadline for submission of media art projects to the Prix Ars Electronica and STARTS Prize |
| April 2025 | We announce the festival theme and the locations |
| June 2025 | The winners of the Prix Ars Electronica and the STARTS Prize will be presented |
| July 2025 | Online ticket sales start |
| September 3 – 7, 2025 | 2025 Ars Electronica Festival |
Robots, Bass and Hot Algorithms! / Portrait XO and Moritz Simon Geist, Credit: Moritz Simon Geist
Laurie Anderson in Concert, Credit: tom mesic
Ei Wada & Nicos Orchest Lab, Credit: vog.photo
Ars Electronica Awards Ceremony. Natalia Rivera, Jung Hsu, Credit: tom mesic
Big Concert Night / Bruckner Orchester, Credit: Jürgen Grünwald
Concerts and Performances
A fixed point in the program of every Ars Electronica is the unique mix of concerts, performances and DJ sets. Let yourself be captivated by the virtuoso skills of the protagonists and enjoy the broad spectrum of events that take place over the five days of the festival.
Screenings
Year after year since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has been searching for the world’s best computer animations. You’ll see an exquisite selection of them during Ars Electronica in the form of the specially curated Animation Festival. The lineup we’ll be showing you in the Ars Electronica Center‘s Deep Space 8K is equally extraordinary. On 16-by-9-meter projections on the wall and floor, artists from all over the world will stage 8K-resolution visual worlds that will take your breath away. Guaranteed!
Arena / Ugo Dehaes, Credit: Gregor Tatschl
Deep Space 8K, Credit: tom mesic
Being – Immersive Experience / Rashaad Newsome, Credit: Philip Greindl
Life Ink / Maki Namekawa – Wacom Co., Ltd. & Ars Electronica Futurelab, Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Opera / Erick Oh, Credit: tom mesic
Repairing the Present / Manuel Cirauqui, Mariana Pestana, Credit: Philip Greindl
Prix Forum, Credit: vog.photo
Hiroshi Ishii, Credit: Philipp Greindl
Holly Herndon, Credit: Philipp Greindl
Ali Nikrang, Credit: vog.photo
Conferences
Ars Electronica offers an almost uncountable range of exciting talks, lectures and conferences. The big two-day symposium on the festival’s annual theme brings together renowned experts and pioneers from the fields of science, art, design and technology. At STARTS Day, everything revolves around innovation for and from Europe, at the Prix Forums you’ll meet the winners of the Prix Ars Electronica’s Golden Nicas, and the Expanded Animation Conference is devoted to computer animation trends outside the mainstream.
Become our partner!
As Europe’s largest platform for art, technology and society, we work with hundreds of partners from all over the world. If you’re at least as excited about the future as we are, then you should become our partner!
Open Labs and Workshops
Trying things out, experimenting, touching, grasping – hands-on is our invitation, indeed our call to you! Whether you want to watch artificial intelligence “think”, train self-driving cars, program robots, 3D print or edit your own DNA with genetic scissors – at almost all of our festival locations you will find open labs and workshops where you can discover a lot of new territory under the guidance of artists and scientists!
Workshop A-MINT / Alex Braga, Credit: tom mesic
BioLab, Yoko Shimizu, Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl
Creating interactive audio systems with Bela / Andrew McPherson, Credit: vog.photo
Holly Herndon, Credit: Philipp Greindl
Ars Electronica Award Ceremony, Credit: tom mesic
Ableton Open Lab, Credit: Philipp Greindl
Hebocon Reloaded, Credit: tom mesic
Druzeiplo / Benjamin Hölzl, Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Holly Herndon, Credit: Philipp Greindl
create your world
Visit the future festival for the next generation with your family! create your world is a platform for creative projects, a playground for offbeat ideas, a laboratory for exciting experiments and a forum for constructive activism. This is where young and young-at-heart tinkerers, those with a thirst for knowledge and future enthusiasts meet to exchange ideas with like-minded people, try out new technologies and make joint plans. So come, be inspired, join in!
You want to visit the next festival?
The Ars Electronica Festival will take place in Linz, Austria, from September 3 to 7, 2025. In spring, we will present the festival theme and announce the first program details. Tickets will be available online starting in July, but can also be purchased on-site during the festival.
Until then, stay in touch with us, follow us on our social media channels or subscribe to our newsletter!
Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl
Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria
Industrial city. University city. UNESCO City of Media Arts. 211,000 people live and almost as many work in Linz. Technology, natural sciences, art and design are the most important location factors – an environment that ideally supports Ars Electronica and, vice versa, constantly receives new impulses from Ars Electronica. The only constant in the city is change, with everyone involved always looking ahead, to the future. The art and creative scene is part of this dynamic and has been shaping Linz’s development for decades.
Festival for Art, Technology and Society – since 1979
2020: KEPLER’S GARDENS at JKU Campus, Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl
2019: Stift St. Florian, Credit: vog.photo
2017: POSTCITY, Credit: vog.photo
2017: Mariendom, Credit: tom mesic
2014: LipDub im Einkaufszentrum, Credit: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair
2007: Limonistollen, Credit: rubra
2005: Strandbeest / Theo Jansen, Credit: rubra
2004: Evening in the Gardens, Credit: rubra
Harbor dock, industrial site, mountain tunnel, monastery, former mail distribution center, university campus-every Ars Electronica goes outside, into the city. We’ll reveal which locations the 2024 Ars Electronica Festival will be heading for in the spring!
We look forward to your visit to the Ars Electronica Festival!
September 3 – 7, 2025
Linz, Austria