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…
SAP, as an enterprise that configures and provides an organizational setting for abstract business processes, is Source.Code’s point of departure.
As a follow-up to their “Das Rheingold – Visionized” pilot project, the Ars Electronica Futurelab again collaborated with artist Johannes Deutsch on a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony Nr. 2 in C minor as an interactive visualization in three-dimensional space.
The collaboration between SAP and Ars Electronica has been in place since 2002. This partnership is a prototype for new models of collaboration between art, business, technology and society. The collaboration ranges from media art presentations at SAP events and novel visualizations of information to joint research projects and innovative social initiatives.
On September 26th and 28th, 2004, a concert performance of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz took place in the Great Hall of the Brucknerhaus Linz with an interactive 3D visualization by Johannes Deutsch and Ars Electronica Futurelab.
The theme of Gulliver’s World is the relationship between virtual and material realities, and the reality that’s constructed by combining these two components.
In the beginning, there was Humphrey — a mechatronic device that worked in conjunction with a pair of data glasses to simulate flight in a 3-D environment. This installation in the Ars Electronica Center has been a smash hit with visitors since the museum opened, having replaced almost all the exhibits on display there at…
The ARSBOX is a PC-based, stereographic, multimedia presentation unit. It has been designed as a form of cross-media infrastructure making it possible to present, develop and manipulate a broad spectrum of media contents.