Ars Electronica

At the beginning of Cultural Capital Year Ars Electronica opens ist new “Museum of the Future”. In a spectacular and unique manner the new Ars Electronica Center combines a wealth of functions and adds to old strengths, such as intuitive access and the encouragement of a playful approach, together with themes such as the new images of man. In addition to this the new Ars Electronica Center serves as home base for the virtual Journey Around the World 80+1: information streams and messages from all over the world are channelled to the GeoCity, a futuristic map and logistics room, where they are made visible. In 2009 Ars Electronica also celebrates 30 years of its existence, which finds expression in a comprehensive digital archive. The festival, which will be taking place in 2009 from 3 to 8 September, will be dedicated in its entirety to “Zukunft/Future”. It will be all about the attraction of daring visions of our future and the general question as to our concept of futurity.