Projects

2013

  • Connecting Cities

    Connecting Cities

    A European Network of Media Façades

    Connecting Cities is a EU-funded culture project aiming at building a worldwide expanding network of media facades, urban screens and other digital projection sites. In contrast to their typically commercial usage, Connecting Cities supports the exchange of artistic or socially relevant contents.

  • CADET

    CADET

    Between 2010 and 2014, the FFG-funded Center for Advances in Digital Entertainment Technologies — in short CADET — has dealt with the research, advancement and usability of immersive technologies taken from the gaming and digital-entertainment industries.

  • Shared Space Spaxels

    Shared Space Spaxels

    Since 2013, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and Mercedes-Benz have been facing one of the most challenging issues raised by autonomous mobility: How can we humans communicate with self-driving cars in ways that make us feel comfortable and safe?

  • Tosca – Odeon

    Tosca – Odeon

    Rupert Huber and Richard Dorfmeister (aka TOSCA) premiered their new album Odeon at Linz’s Musiktheater together with vocalists Sarah Carlier, Robert Gallagher, Rodney Hunter and Jay Jay Jones as well as the Wiener K&K String Quartet.

  • Murmur

    Murmur

    by Aakash Odedra & Lewis Major

    British dancer/choreographer Aakash Odedra and Australian choreographer Lewis Major teamed up with Ars Electronica Futurelab to create a dance performance blending technology such as tracking, visualisations, projections and more.

  • Kommunikation mit selbstfahrenden Autos

    Kommunikation mit selbstfahrenden Autos

    Die führenden Automobilhersteller und Hightech-Produzenten sind sich einig, dass selbstfahrende Autos in absehbarer Zeit zum Alltag auf unseren Straßen gehören werden. Die Umsetzung der entsprechenden technischen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen stellt jedoch – noch – eine große Herausforderung dar. Ebenso wichtig wird es sein, Vertrauen bei den zukünftigen Nutzer*innen dieser Technologien zu schaffen. Unverzichtbar dafür ist…

  • Pixelspaces

    Pixelspaces

    Pixelspaces war eine jährliche Konferenz, die das Ars Electronica Futurelab zwischen 2001 und 2013 veranstaltete. Sie wurde 2018 durch das Open Futurelab abgelöst, das bis heute jährlich einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Ars Electronica Futurelab wirft.

  • Project Genesis

    Project Genesis

    Project Genesis started from Futurelab’s partnership within the Studiolab initiative, funded by the European Commision Seventh Framework Programme. Within Studiolab there were three main topics: Future of water, Future of Social Interaction, and Synthetic Biology. For several reasons Ars Electronica chose to focus on Synthetic Biology. Key factors such as a a S1 (security class…

  • Spaxels

    Spaxels

    Drone shows and swarm art performances

    Im September 2012 wurde am Linzer Donauufer ein neues Medium geboren: Der weltweit erste groß angelegte Outdoor-Formationsdrohnenflug erleuchtete den Nachthimmel als Teil und Herzstück des Open-Air-Musikfestivals Klangwolke.

  • (St)Age of Participation

    (St)Age of Participation

    Between 2011 and 2015, under the scientific direction of Christopher Lindinger, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and media artist, choreographer and composer Klaus Obermaier have been jointly investigating innovative forms of audience involvement in stage-based media art.