How does direct interaction with the brain work? On Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, the program at the Ars Electronica Center will focus on neurotechnologies. In addition to a panel discussion, workshops, presentations and live demonstrations await you.
SAT 26.4. and SUN 27.4.2025
Entry: valid museum ticket
Language: German
Every time we perceive something or think a thought, our brain cells trigger a fireworks display of electrical impulses. Even though these impulses are very weak, they can be measured with the help of highly sensitive sensors and analyzed in real time. Devices that can scan brain functions and directly intervene in brain processes are referred to as “neurotechnologies”.
But how can brain activity be detected, and from what distance is this possible? The NeuroExperienceLab at the Ars Electronica Center provides answers to these questions. This innovative learning center not only offers visitors exciting presentations, but also the opportunity to try out these technologies on their own bodies.
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Live-Demo: Art in the Mind
When you look at a picture, it creates a bioelectric fireworks display in your brain cells. These impulses are transmitted via axons and synapses and can be measured and interpreted using brain-computer interfaces. You might be surprised at how art can affect you synaptically at a subconscious level. (more…)
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Live-Demo: Neuro-Gaming
Try controlling a neuro-game with your brain waves! With so-called brain-computer interfaces, your brain activity can be recorded and analyzed in real time and converted into functions, such as controlling an avatar.
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Live-Demo: Neuro-Writing
Writing without moving a finger? You are invited to write on a computer using your brain waves directly through your scalp.
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Live-Demo: Neurorehabilitation System recoveriX
A live demonstration will show how the neuro-rehabilitation system recoveriX is used in stroke recovery. You will have the opportunity to try out this EEG-based system for yourself and get to know it.
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Open Workshop: Neuro-Tech Card Game
The neuro-tech card game TechEthos: Ages of Technology Impacts, developed at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), is an exciting way to learn more about new technologies.
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Open-Workshop: Brain-Interaction Gaming
In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to explore your own brain waves and learn how to correctly place sensors on your scalp. Come with friends or family and get hands-on!
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Presentation: High-End Solution Unicorn Core
The new neuro-tech device Unicorn Core not only offers reliable real-time analysis for neuroscientific research on humans. Sebastian Sieghartsleitner (g.tec medical engineering) will present the new hardware, which is also suitable for animals, live.
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Presentation: Neuro-Rehabilitation
Sebastian Sieghartsleitner from g.tec medical engineering will explain the clinical areas in which brain-computer interfaces can be used with the recoveriX rehabilitation system. He will also present the new study with Parkinson’s patients and report on the research fields of g.tec.
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Re-Engineering Human Nature
In Re-Engineering Human Nature, current developments and critical questions in the field of neurotechnology are discussed. Together with experts from various disciplines and an interested audience, we discuss opportunities and challenges as well as the role of art in this socially relevant field of technology.
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