The 2026 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Ars Electronica is a big festival.
- A2
The 2026 Ars Electronica festival was a very big event.
- B1
Ars Electronica is a big festival for art and technology.
- B2
The 2026 edition of Ars Electronica, a festival for art and technology, recorded 125,000 visits across 40 locations in downtown Linz, Austria.
- C1
In 2026, during Ars Electronica, the festival for art and technology, the bustling streets of downtown Linz, Austria, underwent a remarkable, temporary transformation into a sprawling canvas of innovation.
- C2
In 2026, during Ars Electronica, the festival for art and technology, the bustling streets of downtown Linz, Austria, underwent a remarkable, temporary transformation into a sprawling canvas of innovation.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- record
- to keep information for the future, by writing it down or storing it on a computer
- downtown
- the central part of a city
- professional
- a person who has the type of job that needs a high level of education and training
- anniversary
- the day on which an important event happened in a previous year
- audience
- the group of people together in one place to watch or listen to an event
- site
- a place where something is, was, or will be built, or where something happened
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Ars Electronica. Read the original for the full report.