For thirty years now, art, technology, and society have been fields of interest whose highly complex, vibrant networks of relationships have been at the center of activities at Ars Electronica. Ars Electronica is not only a festival and a prize, but since 1996 it has also been a museum and laboratory. What began inLinz, Austria, in 1979 as an artistic and local political experiment is now setting global standards. Over time, it has become one of the most highly recognized forums for the development of media art and the discourse on technological culture.
Richly illustrated and containing numerous texts, a comprehensive register of projects, and entertaining asides, this anniversary publication provides a retrospective of a project that has always focused on developing the future in the present.

PETER WEIBEL (* 1944, Odessa) is an internationally known media and conceptual artist, curator, and art and media theoretician. Since the 1960s his work has firmly regarded artistic creativity as an open-ended field of activity. He was head of the ZKM, Karlsruhe until 2020. Since 2017 he has been director of the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Culture at the Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna.