Ars Electronica Center
Museum of the future on the Danube, with hands-on media art and the Deep Space 8K projection room.
The Ars Electronica Center opened in 1996 on the north bank of the Danube as the permanent home of the Ars Electronica organisation, which had run its festival of art, technology and society in Linz since 1979. A much larger building by Treusch architecture replaced and enveloped the original in 2009, when Linz was European Capital of Culture. Its glass skin of roughly 1,100 panels can be lit in changing colours and is visible across the river from the old city.
Exhibits are arranged as laboratories rather than display cases, covering artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, neuro-bionics and global environmental data. The centrepiece is Deep Space 8K, a room with 16 by 9 metre wall and floor projections at 8K resolution used for scientific imagery, artworks and architectural models. The building also houses the Futurelab research unit and hosts parts of the annual Ars Electronica Festival each September.
Highlights
- Deep Space 8K with 16 by 9 metre wall and floor projections
- Colour-changing glass facade of about 1,100 illuminated panels
- Hands-on laboratories on AI, robotics and biotechnology
- Home of the Ars Electronica Futurelab and the annual festival
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