ARS ELECTRONICA 2020 - Festival for ART, TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY
2020 Ars Electronica Festival:
In Kepler’s Gardens
September 9 – 13, 2020, a global journey mapping the ‘new’ world
The starting point: Kepler’s Garden in Linz, Austria. The destinations: 120 locations around the globe. The duration of the journey: 9 to 13 September 2020.
Festival on the Web
Ars Electronica 2020 is taking place not despite but because of Corona. From September 9 to 13, the Festival for Art, Technology and Society simply wants to know what to do now? For the first time we’re asking this difficult question not only in Linz but at 120 locations on all continents. Everywhere we meet people who are fighting by peaceful means against the destruction of our environment and rebelling against the powerful, who bring up what is burning under the nails of millions, who demand that the increasingly rapid development of technology should be oriented on us humans and not the other way around. Everywhere we meet people who are working for a better future. We meet artists, scientists and activists and want to know how they imagine our future. Why not join us on this unique journey around the world and experience places you have already been to in a completely different way. Before we give you a taste of this venture and now serve you the best travel tips, here’s a general note that’s very important to us. It also explains why Ars Electronica is becoming a travel agent of a different kind this year.
Festival in Linz
If you do not live and work in Austria or in a country bordering Austria, please do not come to Linz in September. We are serious about that. Stay at home and stay healthy! Instead, go and be online from September 9th to 13th and take advantage of the many new opportunities to experience, comment, discuss and exchange ideas with others at presentations, lectures, performances and concerts at the 120 festival locations around the world! But if you’d like to come to Linz and visit the “Kepler’s Garden” on the campus of the Johannes Kepler University, which is being staged here for the first time, we’d be delighted to do so too, of course. In this case, however, please note that you must book your ticket in advance and online. In order to make your visit to the festival as safe as possible, we want to avoid any queuing and group formation on site, so this time there will be no ticket counters on the festival grounds. Furthermore, we ask you to keep minimum distances to other visitors and to wear a mouth-and-nose protection. That’s it, enough about Corona. Let’s go now! From Linz, Austria towards the east always towards the sun, one time around the whole world! Let’s go!
Mario Klingemann latest AI-based installation "Appropriate Response" will be exhibited at the 2020 festival in Linz this September: a scoreboard equipped with artificial intelligence, as we know it from airports and train stations of days gone by, and which offers all visitors a different, unique wise saying based on GPT-2 from OpenAI.
A new exhibition titled “Artificial Seascapes” by CADAF will be also presented at the 2020 Ars Electronica festival featuring Anne Spalter and Sofia Crespo, two female artists working with AI technology. Spalter and Crespo, who both exhibited at CADAF Online, explore current socio-economic issues including COVID19 and ecological uncertainty in their work. Stay tuned!
