the ares electronica center in linz austria is a rendezvous with our not so distant future a clearer view of where we're heading next. my colleague david levitz is here with me now david looks pretty cool but also a little creepy as well i mean hey i can make anyone say anything it likes really mona lisa obama yeah it's a little bit dangerous actually this is a technique called deep fake that has been used actually to create fake news and it is scary in the era of fake news when you can have a politician give a fake press conference and post it online it's also been used to create fake porn using real people who are not porn actors so. great for creative work if you want to make mona lisa talk in your movie but this is really a technology that we have to be very careful indeed now let's talk about the electronics that sensor recently reopened but it is much more than a family museum is it is there are actually. researchers there who are at the cutting edge of ai and the arts i'm going to show you one example it's a guy whose work is pretty cool maybe a little creepy. who's a scientis

to australia and the city of linz not perhaps as well known for its cultural gems as vienna all salzburg but it does have something no other european city has a festival called electronica which combines up with technology and every year explores how the digital revolution is turning our lives upside down and in 2014 the city was officially awarded the title of unesco city of media arts with its own oz electronica museum which is just being renovated. here on the banks of the danube river a giant u.f.o. appears to have landed the ares electronica center in linz is celebrating its reopening with a new exhibition that's all about artificial intelligence smart machines that are set to change our lives in ways nothing short of revolutionary. because isa and became cheo is a real game changer not just a turbo boost of the digitalisation clean and i mean it's the beginning of a whole new set of rules and this is a development we consciously leave to engineers or take companies alone we as a society all have to have a say in this in. ai for everyone without hype or hysteria present a playful. d

like vienna or something but you know from old low tech pleasures and thinking of the yummy cake the linz atoll to makes its aims and you're going to bring that up and yeah i'm planning on having a piece of that later yeah that's actually what the city still best known for this recipe that outdates ai by 3 or 4 centuries actually so wins austria is trying to update its image a little bit trying to come into the future and beyond the r.'s electric. electric tronic a program is also banking on creativity in general another really cool attraction is the city's murals at its industrial harbor now just about 7 years ago artists started transforming this harbor into what's now called mural harbor it's got hundreds of works by international crews from 30 countries and what's great is that you can take a boat tour to see them all this is the biggest space of its kind in europe so if you're if you're there they say that was always a mine of information thank you very much. now composers are inspired by many things love longing heartache times that are inspired by other music or sometimes other mus

their kids but i think it's because we grownups still love to play the opera austrian cotch aquatic in linz is a place for experimentation for contemporary art and then you exhibition there allows the visitors to let out a not chide. playground over the roofs of. this exhibition exploring the senses art and movement at the opera austrian cultural quarter adults can become children again. this is up to visitors not only look at past can touch and feel. they can climb play and dance. if you know this is the 1st thing i'm doing and i love it when you put the guys to smoke so all that opens you up and allows you to fly as it does this is what art should be about tactile experiencing something interactively leaving i think i did a tour of the whole thing i love it. one of the highlights is the linspire made from blue safety nets attached to the steel construction of the roof of the croatian austrian artists collective numen for use took 6 days to install 3000 meters of rope and 1000 square meters of nylon next kristoff is one of the collective 3 founders. and in the us most of the number one of