Ars Electronica

These are the winners of the Starts​ Prize 2026 – Grand prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts:

🏆Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration: Office for Tree Migration (OTM) / Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE)
🏆Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration: Mechanical Kurds / Hito Steyerl (DE)

Congratulations and see you at the Ars Electronica Festival 2026! 🎉

Find out more about all the winning projects: https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/winners/winners2026/

In our new episode of the Art is not a Thing podcast, host Ana-Maria Carabelea​ is joined by artist Erin Robinson. Her work, # # # Machina, operates as an autonomous desire machine that generates an endless stream of synthetic erotic imagery. They discuss desire, eroticism, human intimacy, and corporeality from Lacan and Bataille, all the way to today’s shift brought by artificial intelligence.

Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GyxkPhpz5Y

In einer neuen Ausgabe von "Cuttting Edge" erklärt Christoph Kremer, Managing Director des Ars Electronica Center, warum ausgerechnet eine Roboterrobbe Menschen bis heute bewegt, tröstet und zum Nachdenken anregt.

Den ganzen Beitrag findest du hier: https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/de/2026/05/04/cutting-edge-mehr-als-nur-ein-stofftier/