Ars Electronica is a benchmark organisation in Europe with a track record of more than 30 years and extensive experience in all the art disciplines linked to the new media and digital culture. Its permanent base is the Ars Electronica Center – Museum der Zukunft (Museo del Futuro), whose mission is to bring together audiences and artistic creations based on interactive art, net art, virtual reality and other forms connected with the new media.
Its annual festival Ars Electronica. Festival für Kunst, Technologie und Gesellschaft (Festival for Art, Technology and Society) is an open meeting of international experts in the arts and sciences with a wide audience from different backgrounds and with diverse interests.
For the 2015 edition of the Festival Ars Electronica, AC/E is collaborating on the presentation of three unpublished projects by Spanish artists Pablo Valbuena, Néstor Lizalde and the duo formed by Félix Luque and Íñigo Bilbao. The avenues explored by each of these artists hold an active dialogue with different disciplines such as sculpture, audio-visual forms and architecture, always generating this dialogue through implementation and processes linked to the new media and digital technology.
The festival was established on 18 September 1979 in order to address the growing digital revolution and explore its significance in the fields of culture, technology and society. Within a few years it has become one of the most important international festivals with art, symposia, exhibitions, performances, interventions and concerts, which are held not only in conference halls and at exhibitions but also in dialogue with other landmark places in the city such as the harbour, the convent and the industrial estate. Hundreds of artists, theoreticians and technologists from all over the world have taken part in the festivals. Some 550 journalists and bloggers report annually on this event, which is enjoyed by some 35,000 visitors.
Its annual festival Ars Electronica. Festival für Kunst, Technologie und Gesellschaft (Festival for Art, Technology and Society) is an open meeting of international experts in the arts and sciences with a wide audience from different backgrounds and with diverse interests.
For the 2015 edition of the Festival Ars Electronica, AC/E is collaborating on the presentation of three unpublished projects by Spanish artists Pablo Valbuena, Néstor Lizalde and the duo formed by Félix Luque and Íñigo Bilbao. The avenues explored by each of these artists hold an active dialogue with different disciplines such as sculpture, audio-visual forms and architecture, always generating this dialogue through implementation and processes linked to the new media and digital technology.
The festival was established on 18 September 1979 in order to address the growing digital revolution and explore its significance in the fields of culture, technology and society. Within a few years it has become one of the most important international festivals with art, symposia, exhibitions, performances, interventions and concerts, which are held not only in conference halls and at exhibitions but also in dialogue with other landmark places in the city such as the harbour, the convent and the industrial estate. Hundreds of artists, theoreticians and technologists from all over the world have taken part in the festivals. Some 550 journalists and bloggers report annually on this event, which is enjoyed by some 35,000 visitors.