Shenzhen to see art from Ars Electronica Festival

Since its founding in 1979 in Linz, Austria, the annual Ars Electronica Festival has served as a world-class platform to celebrate creativity and innovation in the realm of art and technology.  

Works which have won the festival's Prix Ars Electronica over the past four decades will go on show at 40 Years of Humanizing Technology. The exhibition will open on Nov 2 at the Design Society Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shenzhen. It will also include works by Chinese artists who have engaged in the crossover of art and technology.

The exhibition, curated by Martin Honzik, the senior curator of Ars Electronica, and Qiu Zhijie, who heads the experimental art department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, will review the abrupt rise and spread of the digital revolution and the challenges it has created to influence relations between human society and technology, inviting the audience to envision a future of coexistence of humans and machines.