arse elektronika, the conference on sex and technology.
PLUG & PLAY! Humans, replicants, and all sentient (or semi-sentient) beings, gather round! Arse Elektronika, the longest-running event at the intersection of sex and technology, is back! For our 2025 edition in Vienna, we invite you to bring your sharpest thoughts, wildest performances, most provocative art pieces, and–of course–your sleaziest machines. Technology and sexuality have … Read more
In less than two weeks Arse Elektronika 2023 is going to happen! The preparations are going full steam to offer all our visitors an exhilarating and inspiring event! First, we want to share the final program. Tickets We are offering a 3-day festival pass, of which we have a cheaper early bird pass until September … Read more
Arse Elektronika is back! And it is our 10th iteration! September 7-9, 2023 at DH5 in Linz, Austria Humans, replicants! Technology and sexuality have always been closely connected, from ancient cave drawings of genitalia to modern virtual-reality pornography. While it is impossible to predict the future, the history of technology suggests that sex will continue … Read more
The exhibition “Sex in Vienna”, shown 2017 at Wien Museum, mentioned the Fortuna Kino. It is – besides Kino Breitensee, also in Vienna, one of the oldest still active cinemas worldwide. It managed to survive the times by turning into a sex cinema. After extending the U1 and building the new subway station U1 Troststraße … Read more
NEKROPNEUM FUCKENBRUST NECKHAMMER 40k / A sex machine by monochrom feat.Thomas Kranabetter and Christian Schüler. Use and abuse this poly-sexual source of compressed lust and horror! Never before were carnal enjoyment and bodily horror so close! A torso you will haveHAWT nightmares about. To quote Salman Rushdie: “Shame is like everythingelse; live with it for … Read more
Sex is one of the most intimate and at the same time most political themes of human existence. We are sexual, technological, narrative and political beings. We have our preferences and kinks, and we do everything we can to make them either come true – or be passively consumed. How and when and in what … Read more
An article in ‘The Gap’ deals with sex tech and Arse Elektronika. It’s based on an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner (German only). Das österreichische Kollektiv Monochrom beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit dem Zusammenspiel zwischen der Sexindustrie und der Tech-Welt. Bereits 2007 veranstalteten sie im Startup-Mekka San Francisco die erste Arse Elektronika, eine Konferenz für Sex … Read more
Humans! Replicants! Arse Elektronika 2017 will take place in autumn 2017. It will be our tenth festival — and a good excuse for our plans of a reboot and restructuring! We will keep you updated!
Arse Elektronika opening night on Friday October 2: Costume style (voluntary dress code): “Work Uniforms Of The Sex Tech Future” So gussy up!
And here we go… get your tickets! Link