The Ars Electronica Futurelab Ideas Expedition is an internal competition of ideas to creatively explore the technological and social circumstances of our time. It aims to encourage talents and collaborations between lab members without limitation to existing research areas or activities at the Futurelab.
Granted Projects 2024
Schmilz, schmilz, Baby! / Melt This!
A thought-provoking campaign on glacier retreat by the activist artist group Aggro Climate.
Persistent Time Sink Resonance
An artistic exploration of reality volumes utilizing 3D Gaussian Splatting.
Granted Projects 2023
Card game for intergenerational as well as innovators workshops where dialogue is fostered with collaborative storytelling of future narratives.
Interactive application for Deep Space 8K to experiment with psychological and physiological processes by exploring visitors’ heartbeats.
Granted Projects 2022
A pop-up book about climate change for kids aged 8 to 12 to promote understanding of Futurelab’s Deep Space 8K application “Welcome to Planet B!”.
Immersive audiovisual experience for Deep Space 8K, created through the interaction between artificial intelligence and biological entities.
Granted Projects 2021
Featuring voice memos from the population that will only be audible again in 2046, this project invites us to consider our personal and collective visions of the future.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ars Electronica Futurelab and Center, this project used their initial letters as a basis for composition with the AI system Ricercar.
By adding remotely controlled actuators to other controls like light switches and elevator buttons in any environment, OutReach provides a way of interaction via telepresence.
Honorary Mentions 2021
Exploration of biological and chemical methods to create materials for art and design, using the Ars Electronica Center’s BioLab and MaterialLab.
Will AI meet us on the same level or will they misinterpret our intentions and react like Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan to the Chamorro?
Granted Projects 2020
Ricercar is an interactive AI-based music composition system where human users and the AI system discover the potential of a musical idea in a collaborative way.
Visualization of the COVID-19 infection chain in simulated everyday environments to virtually test how individual behavior can affect a worldwide pandemic.
Artifact-bound, augmented-reality powered social interface: Utilizing arbitrary objects as communication channels by the means of their visual equality via mobile application.
