The Ars Electronica Festival is organised between 3-7 September 2015 in Linz, Austria. This year’s theme is POST CITY – Habitats for the 21st Century. How fit for the future our cities are? On September 3rd, D-CENT Project Coordinator Francesca Bria is attending STARTS Workshop: Linking S&T&Arts by the European Commission.
In the beginning of September, hundreds of artists and scientists from around the world will travel Austria to join the Ars Electronica Festival. The festival’s focus will be on four aspects of urban life: Future Mobility – the city as transportation hub; Future Work – the city as workplace and marketplace; Future Citizens – the city as community; and Future Resilience – the city as bastion.
On Thursday September 3rd from 3:30-5:00 PM, European Commission organises STARTS Workshop: Linking S&T&Arts. The STARTS initiative, launching in 2016, will promote innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology, and the ARTS. This workshop explores how to promote and foster Art-Technology collaborations via the STARTS initiative. The session is chaired by Robert Madelin and attended by D-CENT Project Coordinator Francesca Bria.
Whole programme: http://www.aec.at/postcity/en/schedule
Tickets: http://www.aec.at/postcity/en/tickets
Hightlights of the programme: http://www.aec.at/press/files/2015/08/POSTCITY_Highlights_EN.pdf
Venue
The 2015 Ars Electronica Festival is being staged at multiple locations in Linz. Situated amidst the main train station’s yard, the PostCity, a 80,000-m2 facility that used to be the postal service’s letter & parcel distribution center will serve as both the main festival venue and a lab for the city of the future.
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