Research promotes critical and analytical thinking and helps us to distinguish facts from opinions. Therefore, it should not be reserved only for experts in the much-cited “ivory tower” – but belongs in the middle of society. This weekend, the program at the Museum of the Future is dedicated to research!

SAT 17.5. and SUN 18.5.2025
Entry: valid museum ticket
Language: German
Registration for the tour recommended at center@ars.electronica.art or +43.732.7272.0
The Ars Electronica Center is a unique blend of exhibition space and laboratory. Visitors can not only experience research here, but also actively participate in it directly in the museum. This special concept makes the Ars Electronica Center a very special place for participatory research.
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(Re-)Search Tour
At the Ars Electronica Center, artistic work and scientific research are closely linked. Art meets science, the boundaries between the disciplines are blurred. (more…)
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Deep Space Special: Data Art – Data Visualization between Art and Research
Can we use data artistically to make social problems visible? Our daily lives generate huge amounts of data – which makes it all the more important to question who owns it, how it can be visualized in an understandable way, and how we can use it to solve social problems.
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Live-Presentation: Me & the Machines
How does proximity to robots affect our sense of loneliness? If an AI says a certain mushroom is edible, would you dare to take a bite?
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Neuro Research Project: NEURO*PRINT
The NEURO*PRINT research project investigates the neuronal frequency spectrum of human brain signals in different scenarios. Each participant receives a printout of their own brain waves to take home.
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Open Workshop: Investigative Lab
Investigate the truth in the investigation lab! In a world where digital tools can easily manipulate reality, it is important that we learn to verify information and establish facts.
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Open Workshop: Mic Check
With the microscope as an instrument for exploring the world, we zoom into the huge miniature world of the microcosm. In doing so, we observe the most unusual creatures such as bear, sun and wheel animals. Pluck a leaf and you can read the desires from the lips of plants. Don’t drop the mic, grab […]
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Open Workshop: Mycobotics Lab
This weekend, BioLab will be transformed into the Mycobotics Lab, a research space shaped by the work of artists Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastan, where fungi, robotics and biofabrication come together.