Ars Electronica 2021 - A New Digital Deal

ARS ELECTRONICAArs Electronica is one of the world’s largest media art venues, a digital music festival, a showcase for creativity and innovation, and a playground for the next generation – Ars Electronica is a world-class festival for art, technology and society.Ars Electronica has followed, anticipated and analyzed the digital revolution and its origins, its successes, even its follies. As a festival for art, technology and society, the cultural and social significance of new technical and scientific developments has always been at its forefront.Once a year the Ars Electronica Festival hosts artists, scientists, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and activists to address central questions of our future. For five days, everything revolves around groundbreaking ideas and grand visions, unusual prototypes and innovative collaborations, inspiring art and groundbreaking research, extraordinary performances and irritating interventions, touching sounds and rousing concerts.

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Tickets for Ars Electronica Festival 2021 - Online

Thank you very much for your interest! Tickets are not available anymore. If you have purchased a ticket until the end of the festival, you can enjoy the content of the festival until the end of September on our Online Platform.

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The Online Festival Pass gives you free access to all online programs, conferences, workshops and events. An email with your access details to our Online Platform will be sent to you automatically prior to the event (starting at beginning of September). There, you will be able to register for events, update your own profile to make the most of the networking opportunities, engage with the community and explore this year's festival together!<h2>A New Digital Deal – Are we willing and able to act?</h2><h3>Festival Ars Electronica 2021</h3><p>New deals are being called for everywhere these days, which speaks to a growing awareness of the inevitability of change. However, it is probably also a sign of our longing for easy solutions, of the ultimately naive hope that a few negotiations and agreements will be enough to put things back in balance.So what might a new deal look like, and what do we mean by “deal” in this context? Nothing will come of the new digital deal if we see it only as a quick horse-trading exercise, if we are only out to negotiate a few benefits for ourselves. Nor is it a deal that anyone can negotiate for us, because a crucial aspect of the “New Digital Deal” is the question of “how are we going to deal with it?” – in other words, the question of options for action and the ability to act.</p><p>How can we “fix” the digital world, get a grip on our problems, and at the same time prevent the increasingly obvious advances of powerful political forces? What skills and expertise would that require? Where and how would we gain those skills and where and how train the necessary experts? What roles will we play in the process?</p>

<h2>Deal comes from divide* and A New Deal means redistributing the cards!</h2><p>Forty-two years after its founding, in the second year of the Covid pandemic, as the digitization of our world has intensified along with the hopes and fears we attach to it, Ars Electronica is also looking to its own roots.Following last year’s successful model, the Festival for Art, Technology and Society will become a global anchor point. A platform for committed people who see the future, not as a glimpse into the tech companies’ crystal ball, but as the responsibility of our time and have begun accepting this responsibility, as social activation and empowerment, as a source of analytical, corrective and alternative thought and action. And so, once again, Ars Electronica in Kepler’s Gardens will be a globally networked festival supported jointly by well over a hundred partners.Because just looking over the garden fences is not enough – we network, open and share our gardens as places of ideas, inspirations, thought-provoking impulses and role models.</p>
(*) Middle English <em>deel</em>, from Old English dǣl; akin to Old English dāl division, portion, Old High German teil part, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deal
<em>[Gerfried Stocker, Co-CEO / Artistic Director Ars Electronica]</em>

<p>Festival Ars Electronica 2021</p><h3>Online Community Engagement </h3>
This year the Festival will be hosted and coordinated through our Ars Electronica Online Platform, as we want to provide access to the experience to everyone from everywhere in the world. 
We want  to encourage our participants to create a loving and constructive atmosphere of communality in the digital space by engaging into meaningful encounters. We welcome our attendees to seek for a common exchange, seeing, hearing, feeling and experiencing with each other in this digital community and to remain connected. 
Treat everyone in an inclusive and respectful way. Be intentional with your words by abstaining from hate speech or actions of any kind. 
<em>Please take them to hear so that everyone, and yourself, can feel comfortable.</em>

<p><strong>How can I get in contact with Ars Electronica?</strong></p><p>tickets@ars.electronica.art</p>

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