Ars Electronica Linz GmbH

ARS ELECTRONICA is an internationally unique platform for digital art and media culture consisting of the following four divisions:

The ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER was opened in 1996 as a prototype of a “Museum of the Future.” Its mission is to utilize innovative, contemporary forms of mediation to facilitate the general public’s encounter with media art, new technologies and social developments. It is the permanent base and thus the organizational foundation of Ars Electronica’s regional and international activities.

The ARS ELECTRONICA FUTURELAB is committed to an interdisciplinary approach to carrying out R&D projects that call for highly innovative thinking and excellence in design. The facility was set up in 1996 as the research and development laboratory of the ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER. Its fields of specialization are Virtual Reality, the creation of CAVE applications, and the development of interactive installations featuring any of a wide variety of physical interfaces.

Annually since 1979, the essence of the ARS ELECTRONICA as a festival for art, technology and society is interdisciplinarity and an open encounter of international experts from the arts and sciences with a broad audience of highly diverse backgrounds and interests.

As the world’s premier cyberarts competition, the PRXI ARS ELECTRONICA has been showcasing state-of the- art and leading edge innovations since 1987. It is the trend barometer in an ever-expanding and increasingly diversified world of media art.