Ars Electronica has been analysing and commenting on the Digital Revolution since 1979. The focus is always on current developments and possible future scenarios and the question of how these will change our lives.

The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition. Winners are awarded the coveted Golden Nica statuette, prize money ranging up to € 10,000 per category and an opportunity to showcase their talents at the famed Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.

Best of Futurelab by YOU! Since 1996, the ARS ELECTRONICA FUTURELAB constitutes the research- and development-motor of Ars Electronica. This section is conceptualized as an artistic-scientific think tank and as a studio-lab. Its projects are as prototypical future sketches an invitation to discuss and reflect on future concepts and their meaning for our society. Find out more here: ars.electronica.art/futurelab/en/

Interactive stations, works of art, research projects, large-scale projections and laboratories. The Ars Electronica Center invites you to exciting and inspiring excursions into the future fields of artificial intelligence and neuroscience, robotics and autonomous mobility, as well as genetic engineering and biotechnology!