“Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.” by J.P. Morgan Working at the edge between science and art has always fascinated Anna. Her scientific thinking and analytical skills were mainly shaped during her studies of Technical Physics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, whereas her…

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” by Dr. Emmet “Doc” Brown, Back to the Future II (1989) Cyntha, originally from the Netherlands, feels right at home at the Futurelab. Whilst majoring in Artificial Intelligence during her BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Groningen, she quickly came to the realization that…

“Future is unknown – its formation is up to us.” Peter Haider studied Economics at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz focussing on corporate finance, international management, service management and civil law. He work in the areas financing and controlling in the real estate industry. Afterwards he hired at a Linz’ family corporation in the…

“Often the future appears as a distant planet, but in fact we should understand it as a parallel world to the present.” Denise Hirtenfelder (*1997, AT) is an artistic match-maker, puzzle builder and art-related researcher working in the field of Future Thinking and Art-Science. Her approach focuses primarily on critically examining the cultural model of…

“You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there’s no such thing as the unknown — only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.“ Captain James T. Kirk Bringing the Futurelab’s art and visions to as many people as possible — that’s Bernadette’s mission. After all, as a pupil she herself discovered…

“Hope is a memory of the future.” by Gabriel Marcel Susanne Kiesenhofer is an interdisciplinary creative who merges art, technology, and design to redefine experiences in both the physical and digital world.Since joining the Ars Electronica Futurelab in 2020, Susanne has actively participated in the creation of interactive installations, client projects, Deep Space 8K installations,…

“Magic is just science that we don’t understand yet.” Arthur C. Clarke Part Australian, part Austrian, Patrick was faced with much confusion about the origins of a particular marsupial. The constant need for clarification at a young age led him down a path to where science meets art, like the land meets the sea. He…

“Nature is the ultimate origami artist, her designs will inspire the future of robotics.” Matthew Gardiner is a world leading expert in the field of Oribotics, having coined the field, and pioneered the fusion of origami, folding and robotics. With his generations of Oribotic artworks Gardiner’s artistic contexts include team based research within commercial institutions…

Simon Schmid was born in 1990 in Braunau, Upper Austria, and grew up in nearby Neuhofen. In 2010, he graduated from technical school in Ried, where his training emphasized mechanical engineering and production technology. That same year, he began his baccalaureate studies at the Technikum University of Applied Sciences in Vienna in biomedical engineering with…

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it but to enable it.” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Peter was one of the first members to join the Ars Electronica Futurelab during his studies of Industrial Design at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz. As a researcher in the Virtual Environments…

“If only application-oriented research had always been carried out, we would today have an incredible variety and sophistication of candles, but no electricity.” by Anton Zeilinger As Key Researcher on Algorithmic Apperception Otto Naderer realizes projects with an emphasis on enabling machines’ sense and interpreting their surroundings. He has developed Pharus, a versatile laser tracking…

Raphael Schaumburg-Lippe is Senior Artist & Designer at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. He is currently working on stereoscopic photography and videography as well as computer generated animation for 3D applications in Deep Space 8K. As a show designer, he was part of the Spaxels drone team from 2017 and developed workflows specially tailored to robot…