Hideaki Ogawa

  • Beyond the Frame – 8K Future Projects

    Beyond the Frame – 8K Future Projects

    Since 2018, together with Japan’s largest public broadcaster NHK, the Ars Electronica Futurelab has been pursuing questions about the future of the next generation of 8K ultra-high definition TV technology. As early as 2016, NHK began producing 8K material, developing recording and playback technology, and launched the first 8K single channel, making it one of…

  • Living Numbers

    Living Numbers

    Beyond the Frame — 8K Future Projects

    Living numbers is an edutainment program for children, which uses life-size animations to bring life and animal relations closer to its viewers. It was developed within the scope of Beyond the Frame – 8K Future Projects presented at Deep Space 8K during the Ars Electronica Festival 2019.

  • Space of Imagination

    Space of Imagination

    Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2018

    In collaboration with the Japanese artist Yoko Shimizu, Ars Electronica Japan  first co-curated the Matsudo City International Science Art Festival in 2018. Strongly integrated into local structures, the festival format took its starting point from the existing infrastructures of the university city northeast of Tokyo. A broad creative scene and the scientific and technical institutions located in…

  • Swarm Compass

    Swarm Compass

    Japanese telecommunications giant NTT and the Ars Electronica Futurelab have been working together since 2017 on how to use drones—aka unmanned aerial vehicles—as a means of communication. The Sky Compass project laid the groundwork in 2017; now, Swarm Compass takes this initiative to the next level.

  • Swarm Arena

    Swarm Arena

    Swarm Arena is the latest outcome of joint research efforts by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and Japanese telecommunications giant NTT. The collaboration started in 2017 with the aim to work on using unmanned aerial or ground vehicles (UAVs and UGVs) as a means of communication.

  • Open Futurelab 2018

    Open Futurelab 2018

    Nach einer längeren Phase der Integration von Beiträgen aus dem Ars Electronica Futurelab an unterschiedlichen Schauplätzen des Festivals, sollte mit der Initiative Open Futurelab 2018 in der POSTCITY erstmals eine zentrale Schnittstelle für das kreative internationale Netzwerk des Labors entstehen.

  • School of the Future Festival 2017: Out of Control

    School of the Future Festival 2017: Out of Control

    Mit der ersten Ausgabe der School of the Future bringt das Ars Electronica Futurelab Diskussionen über Technologie, Gesellschaft und Kunst mitten ins Herz von Tokio. Das im urbanen Komplex Tokyo Midtown stattfindet, veranstaltete Format umfasst eine Ausstellung, Gespräche, Vorträge und Workshops zu potentiellen Themen der Zukunft.

  • Sky Compass

    Sky Compass

    A collaboration between Japanese telecommunications giant NTT and the Ars Electronica Futurelab, Sky Compass is the first step towards a vision of employing drones (or UAVs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in public signage, guidance and the facilitation of traffic.

  • ORI* – On the Aesthetics of Folding and Technology

    ORI* – On the Aesthetics of Folding and Technology

    This research examines how new design approaches that utilise advances in scientific origami, computation, robotics, and material experimentation, can influence the functional aesthetic of the art of oribotics. Situated in the context of contemporary electro/mechanical artworks and objects, and joining the fields of origami and robotics, oribotics is influenced by notions of folding scientifically and…

  • Vedaport / Monolith

    Vedaport / Monolith

    The six meter tall Monolith – completed in spring 2014 – consists of 24 frameless screens, wrapped in translucent mirror panels. These panels render the Monolith almost invisible at first glance and enhance it.

  • Future Innovators Summit

    Future Innovators Summit

    The Future Innovators Summit (FIS) is an intercultural workshop format which was initiated in 2014 and has developed until 2019 into the key think-tank program during the Ars Electronica Festival. At this summit, experienced professionals as well as young entrepreneurs and social activists, technicians and scientists, and of course artists and designers, met at the…

  • Future Catalysts

    Future Catalysts

    In 2014, Ars Electronica launched the collaborative project Future Catalysts together with Japan’s premier advertising agency Hakuhodo. The project views artists and people with artistic perspectives as “catalysts for the future”.