Dates:
Sat, 12 Sept 2026, 11:00–12:00
To kick off the day’s focus on Living Archives, Ars Electronica invites you to a 60-minute opening performance in Deep Space 8K. Following a welcome address, Gerfried Stocker guides the audience through selected highlights of this year’s festival program as well as standout projects from the previous year. Archives are commonly regarded as places of preservation—orderly repositories of a complete past. Living Archives challenges this notion by proposing a different understanding: archives as dynamic, evolving spaces in which past, present and future can be brought into new relationships, and from which new artistic works can emerge through dialogue with emerging technologies. This very question has already been explored by the Salzburg Festival and Ars Electronica as part of a STARTS Residency Programme. With the Living Archives focus on September 12th, we now bring a selection of international projects to Deep Space 8K that artistically embody this shift in perspective. Following the opening, Gerfried Stocker will discuss the questions guiding this day with various international experts: How do archives become living, shapeable spaces? And what relationship emerges between cultural heritage and the new tools used to interpret it?
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