Projects
Projects
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Digital Graffiti
Digital Graffiti is an innovative technology platform that was developed starting in 2001. It allowed virtual messages and information to be left like electronic post-its in any location. Using mobile devices such as PDAs (personal digital assistants), notebooks and later smartphones, these messages were retrieved on a location-specific basis and superimposed on the real environment…
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Notre-Dame Immersive
In April 2019, the world-famous Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris was severely damaged in a devastating fire, requiring years of reconstruction and restoration work. On the occasion of its reopening in December 2024, the Ars Electronica Futurelab, together with the French start-ups Iconem and Histovery, has brought the world-famous cathedral into Deep Space 8K as an…
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Converge
Converge is an interactive work for Deep Space 8K by the Ars Electronica Futurelab – based on SHARESPACE, a large European R&D project on using avatars in social situations. Converge uses tracking for up to ten on-site participants and a motion capture suit for one off-site participant. All must collaborate to progress, communicating with the…
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Pillars of Democracy
This playful and interactive installation aimed to increase civic participation and enhance awareness of the importance of democracy. The artistic intervention on the pillars of the Parliament building in Vienna invited people to express themselves, reflect, and take a stand on democracy. The goal was to establish an emotional and personal connection to democracy, emphasize…
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Gigapixel Editions
Catalyst lab – The Making of Tomorrow
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the European Patent Convention, the European Patent Office (EPO) invited the Ars Electronica to co-curate an exhibit space in its headquarters in Munich, Germany: the Catalyst lab. The EPO holds an extensive collection of artworks, many of which have been digitized and archived using ultra-high-resolution photography and digital…
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Futurelab Night 2024
Playful interactive research projects, immersive artistic works, and moving large-scale representations of memories almost lost – saved with the help of technology, artistic thinking, and social interventions: Futurelab Night 2024 was once again the performative peak of the lab’s activities at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Persistent Time Sink Resonance
Persistent Time Sink Resonance is an artistic exploration of reality volumes utilizing 3D Gaussian Splatting. This recent rasterization technique supports the digital, spatial reconstruction of real-life objects or even our surroundings in the computer. Persistent Time Sink Resonance is one of the two winning projects of the Ars Electronica Futurelab 2024 internal ideas competition Ideas…
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Schmilz, schmilz, Baby!
Melt This!
Schmilz, schmilz, Baby! / Melt This! is a thought-provoking campaign on glacier retreat by the activist artist group Aggro Climate, members of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The initiative is one of the two winning projects of the Ars Electronica Futurelab 2024 internal ideas competition Ideas Expedition.
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Buzz Swatters
Collective Transformation Lab
Buzzing noises, an inconspicuous window, tropical humidity and the impression of being chased: Buzz Swatters: Playful Pandemic Prevention was designed to address the collective action problem of infectious diseases in an innovative and playful way. It is the second collaborative project of the Collective Transformation Lab between AI start-up Godot and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Data Art & Science Project 2024
A project by Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT), Toyota Coniq Alpha (JP)
Data Art & Science (DAS) is a new interdisciplinary field at the center of a collaborative project between Toyota Coniq Alpha and the Ars Electronica Futurelab to incorporate artistic perspectives on data. At the Ars Electronica Festival 2024, visitors could experience a prototype of the DAS Center which aims to revitalize local culture in the…
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Memories for Futures
Memories for Futures is a multi-modal media arts installation designed to foster care and discussion about rural life’s future. Local stories, places and impressions from the village of Azusakawachi in the Japanese prefecture of Shiga are linked here to provide insights into the lives of the inhabitants and their very personal history. The initiative is…
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Open Futurelab 2024
Ars Electronica Festival
We at the Ars Electronica Futurelab understand HOPE – motto of the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 – as a process that can be shaped through art and active participation. We therefore invited everyone to shape HOPE together: from September 4 to 8, 2024, at the Open Futurelab in POSTCITY at the Ars Electronica Festival.