2020 Ars Electronica Festival: In Kepler’s Gardens

September 9 – 13, 2020. A global journey mapping the ‘new’ world.

Where is the cloud and who controls it? How could biodesign improve or destroy our lives? What can stick insects teach AI about dance? How can art and science collaboration inspire climate activism? With 95% of the universe a mystery, what role do artists and scientists have in unravelling and understanding the unknown?

The Science Gallery Garden at the Ars Electronica Festival showcased the best of the world’s only university network dedicated to public engagement with science and art. The Garden explored trust, technology, global challenges, arts innovation and new forms of digital storytelling.

Each Science Gallery location had its own Garden, with a variety of interactive workshops, experimental audio and visual experiences, livestreamed events and a specially-curated digital archive.

Explore our Gardens here:

About the Ars Electronica festival

Ars Electronica 2020 is taking place not despite but because of Corona. From September 9 to 13, the Festival for Art, Technology and Society simply wants to know what to do now? For the first time we’re asking this difficult question not only in Linz but at 120 locations on all continents. Everywhere we meet people who are fighting by peaceful means against the destruction of our environment and rebelling against the powerful, who bring up what is burning under the nails of millions, who demand that the increasingly rapid development of technology should be oriented on us humans and not the other way around. Everywhere we meet people who are working for a better future. We meet artists, scientists and activists and want to know how they imagine our future. Why not join us on this unique journey around the world and experience places you have already been to in a completely different way. Before we give you a taste of this venture and now serve you the best travel tips, here’s a general note that’s very important to us. It also explains why Ars Electronica is becoming a travel agent of a different kind this year.