ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER
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We have been analyzing and commenting on the Digital Revolution since 1979. Since then, we have been developing projects, strategies and competencies for the Digital Transformation. Together with artists, scientists, technologists, designers, developers, entrepreneurs and activists from all over the world, we address the central questions of our future. The focus is on new technologies and how they change the way we live and work together.

A new festival. The first Ars Electronica begins on September 18, 1979. 20 artists and scientists from all over the world gather at this new “Festival for Art, Technology and Society” in Linz to discuss the Digital Revolution and its possible consequences. This Ars Electronica is small, but groundbreaking. The initiative for this came from Hannes Leopoldseder (AT), director of the Upper Austria regional studio of the Austrian Broadcasting Company (ORF), who is passionate about everything that has to do with the future. Together with the electronic musician Hubert Bognermayr (AT), the music producer Ulli A. Rützel (DE) and the cyberneticist and physicist Herbert W. Franke (AT), he lays the foundation stone for a festival that will become the world’s largest and most important of its kind.

PROYECTOR Festival’s selection for ARS ELECTRONICA

PROYECTOR is a platform dedicated to the dissemination of moving images, emphasizing their experimental, contemporary, and committed nature. The Festival has been active since 2007, collaborating with almost 70 festivals and more than 100 venues, and has featured artists from more than 60 countries. The Festival compilles experimental installation pieces, showcasing the variety of proposals selected each year with the aim of interacting with space, scale, and the relationship with the body. The Selection presented for ARS ELECTRONICA Festival (2025) consists of 4 video pieces tied through the themes of perception, technology, artificiality, and emotional dissonance.

Simón García-Miñaúr
An unexpected visit, 2012
04:49”

Bob Bicknell-Knight

I Wish I’d Been Born a Balloon, 2020
09:45”

Xabi Bou
TOUS LES OISEAUX DU MONDE, 2022
05:13”

Petra Mrsa
I can save her, 2022
11:30”