At the Lentos Art Museum

Ars Electronica: War, climate lies, coffee machine

Rib from Japan tests luminous prostheses for her eye.(Bild: Rib)

The Ars Electronica Festival from September 4 to 8 in Linz is entitled "Hope" - and the winning works of the Prix Ars Electronica show just how necessary this hope is. The Lentos in Linz is also presenting animations - and even talking coffee machines.

Ars Electronica starts on Wednesday, September 4. The title is "Hope/Hoffnung", we have reported on it.

Although Postcity is the center of the Ars, the impressive exhibition of the 13 winners of the Prix Ars Electronica is being shown at the Lentos Art Museum.

The contents can be read as a mirror of the present, as they range from a war weapons karaoke to the climate lies of the oil industry. In "Smoke and Mirrors" (New Animation Art category), Beatie Wolfe (GB) makes visible just how fragile our planet is. The artist Rib (JP) lost an eye as a child due to domestic violence.

Gabriel Massan's game explores colonialism and mythology.(Bild: Gabriel Massan)

Coffee machine with airs and graces
To deal with this trauma, she tries out an animal glass eye or a glowing eye prosthesis. Funny: the talking coffee machine by Jan Zuiderveld (NL). You have to entertain it well, otherwise there's no coffee (Kottan fans will be delighted). The Prix Gala will take place on September 5 at the Design Center.