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.
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.
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.
How can gesture research be presented so that it is comprehensible by everyone? How do you identify natural gestures for specific applications? What are the origins of such gestures, and how can they best be used in future interfaces? The Ars Electronica Futurelab has been collaborating with Chemnitz University of Technology to get to the…
Die immersive, virtuelle und interaktive 3D-Umgebung des Deep Space 8K wird Teil eines gigantischen, skalierbaren Zukunftsprojekts: Als VR-Forschungs- und Entwicklungslabor soll die internationale Forschungsplattform TUMCREATE eindrucksvolle Möglichkeiten der Präsentation, Kollaboration und Simulation für die Entwicklung eines neuen Infrastruktur- und Mobilitätskonzepts für die Megastadt Singapur bieten.
Von Nazi-Sympathisant*innen im November 1938 zerstört, wurde die Linzer Synagoge 78 Jahre später zu neuem Leben erweckt und der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht: als virtuelle Rekonstruktion des Architekturstudenten René Mathe in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Jüdischen Museum Wien und dem Ars Electronica Futurelab.
In the role of a scientific partner of the Technical Museum Vienna, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is advisory and realizes projects within the scope of an exhibition-series “Weiter_Gedacht_” (one step further). In the case of the first of three events between 2016 and 2021, the title “Die Zukunft der Stadt” (The urban future) called for…
The Deep Space 8K has received a major upgrade in 2022 – read all about the technical innovations as well as the latest programs on our Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION page!
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.
Ars Electronica Futurelab’s quadcopter swarm was one of the highlights of the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke (Cloud of Sound) in Linz. More than 90,000 spectators lined both banks of the Danube to witness a then world record: a formation flight by no fewer than 49 quadcopters. Never before had such a large squadron of whirlybird drones…