2019 Venue
Most conference events will take place in Linz at the Johannes Kepler University (Uni-Center), located at Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria. The following map shows the location of the Uni-Center.
Ars Electronica
Select conference events will take place at the Ars Electronica centre; these will be announced in the program.
Art, technology, society. Since 1979, Ars Electronica has sought out interlinkages and congruities, causes and effects. The ideas circulating here are innovative, radical, eccentric in the best sense of that term. They influence our everyday life—our lifestyle, our way of life, every single day.
The Festival as proving ground, the Prix as competition honoring excellence, the Center as a year-round setting for presentation and interaction, and the Futurelab and Ars Electronica Solutions as in-house R&D facility extend their feelers throughout the realms of science and research, art and technology. Ars Electronica's divisions inspire one another and put futuristic visions to the test in a unique, creative feedback loop. It's an integrated organism continuously reinventing itself.
Center: The Museum, Presentation and Interaction
The Center is the Museum of the Future—the place where all the diverse blends of artistic genres, scientific domains and technological directions are displayed and processed. Biotechnology and genetic engineering, neurology, robotics, prosthetics and media art are juxtaposed here on equal terms and form experimental arrays conducive to testing ways in which we might be interacting and communicating with our surroundings and other human beings in the very near future, and getting an impression of what these changes will mean for us and our society. All exhibitions focus on issues having to do with how people can deal with their environment, and offer a variety of perspectives on our nature, our origins and our world. An extensive set of methodological tools is available to provide visitors with multifarious approaches to and ways of looking at the challenges posed by everyday life. Here, the emphasis isn’t just on interaction with exhibits on display; it’s on participation. The exhibitions are continuously being reworked and updated. What you won’t find here is a bunch of “Do Not Touch” signs; you’re cordially invited to enjoy a hands-on experience.
Anton Bruckner Private University for music, drama and dance
Image Credit: Simon Bauer
The Anton Bruckner Private University is an open, innovative centre for the arts, where the performers and teachers of tomorrow receive an individualized education in music, drama and dance. As one of the six Austrian universities for music and drama, and one of the four universities in Linz, the UNESCO City of Media Arts, the Bruckner University sees its role both as a training ground for performing, teaching and academic research, and as an important agent in the development and communication of the arts. The new building of the Bruckner University impresses with its striking architecture and creates the ideal environment for multi-faceted encounters with music, drama and dance.
The range of courses offered by the Bruckner University include performance and teaching degrees in the classical instrumental categories and in Vocal Studies, Early Music, jazz, composition, contemporary dance, drama, music promotion and communication and elementary music education. All courses of study are completed with the academic degrees "Bachelor of Arts" (BA) and "Master of Arts" (MA).
Computer Music Studio
The Sonic Lab is an intermedial computer music concert hall with a peripheral loudspeaker system, and was initiated for the Bruckner University by Andreas Weixler between 2005 and 2015, in conjunction with the studios and facilities of the Computer Musik Studios CMS.
The aim was to facilitate research and performance of electro acoustic compositions as well as international exchange in teaching and production with other highly developed national and international music studios. The public is surrounded by a klangdom with 20 full-range loudspeakers and 4 subwoofers for the bass, the sounds can be moved horizontally or vertically.
The CMS Studios and the computer music concert hall are compatibly structured. A double projection in the Sonic Lab allows the performance of audio-visual works and the hosting of conferences and symposiums. Interactive visual performances, in which the sounds of acoustic instruments interact with pictures and spatialised (moving around the room) computer music sounds, are one of the specialities of the CMS. The specially constructed acoustic of the Sonic Lab provides the perfect performance space for jazz and improvised music, particularly for percussive and electro-acoustically amplified sounds, and for contemporary compositions, music theatre and the media arts. Finally the Sonic Lab is actually the place for music of the future, due to its strong pedagogical orientation.
Tabakfabrik
Lösehalle, Peter-Behrens-Platz 1-15, 4020 Linz (building map)
The city of Linz acquired this area in the year 2009 and the buildings, in the style of New Objectivity, have since been transformed into a hotspot for cultural and creative industries, digitalisation, start-ups and first-class events. Currently, more than 1,600 people work in around 250 companies and organisations on the site—much more than at the end of tobacco production. Starting in the year 2020, the NeuBau 3 will represent a new landmark on the site of the Tabakfabrik Linz, which will gradually form a vibrant city district with around 3,000 workplaces, hotels, educational facilities, as well as residential and shopping facilities.