Ars Electronica is an organization based in
Linz, Austria, founded in
1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival.
Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995 was
Peter Weibel. Since 1995 Gerfried Stocker is the artistic director of Ars Electronica. In addition to running the yearly festival, Ars Electronica maintains a media center and museum, the
Ars Electronica Center, which opened in
1996 and offers tours and courses and hosts a technology lab. Starting in 1987, the organization also began hosting the
Prix Ars Electronica, awarding prizes and generating publicity for outstanding
cyberarts innovations. Co-director (together with Christine Schöpf) of the Festival is Austrian artist Gerfried Stocker.
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