Projects

2013

  • Connecting Cities

    Connecting Cities

    A European Network of Media Façades

    Connecting Cities is a EU-funded culture project aiming at building a worldwide expanding network of media facades, urban screens and other digital projection sites. In contrast to their typically commercial usage, Connecting Cities supports the exchange of artistic or socially relevant contents.

  • CADET

    CADET

    Between 2010 and 2014, the FFG-funded Center for Advances in Digital Entertainment Technologies — in short CADET — has dealt with the research, advancement and usability of immersive technologies taken from the gaming and digital-entertainment industries.

  • Shared Space Spaxels

    Shared Space Spaxels

    Since 2013, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and Mercedes-Benz have been facing one of the most challenging issues raised by autonomous mobility: How can we humans communicate with self-driving cars in ways that make us feel comfortable and safe?

  • Tosca – Odeon

    Tosca – Odeon

    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.

  • Murmur

    Murmur

    by Aakash Odedra & Lewis Major

    British dancer/choreographer Aakash Odedra and Australian choreographer Lewis Major teamed up with Ars Electronica Futurelab to create a dance performance blending technology such as tracking, visualisations, projections and more.

  • Communication with autonomous cars

    Communication with autonomous cars

    Leading carmakers and manufacturers of high technology agree that autonomous vehicles will be common, everyday phenomena on our streets and highways in the forseeable future. However, the implementation of the corresponding technical and legal framework conditions still poses a tremendous challenge. Equally important will be the process of creating trust on the part of future…

  • Pixelspaces

    Pixelspaces

    Pixelspaces was an annual conference that the Ars Electronica Futurelab staged between 2001 and 2013. It was succeeded in 2018 by the Open Futurelab, an annual glimpse behind the scenes of the Ars Electronica Futurelab that continues to this day.

  • Project Genesis

    Project Genesis

    Project Genesis started from Futurelab’s partnership within the Studiolab initiative, funded by the European Commision Seventh Framework Programme. Within Studiolab there were three main topics: Future of water, Future of Social Interaction, and Synthetic Biology. For several reasons Ars Electronica chose to focus on Synthetic Biology. Key factors such as a a S1 (security class…

  • Spaxels

    Spaxels

    Drone shows and swarm art performances

    In September 2012, a new medium for physical-visual expression was born along the banks of the river Danube in Linz: The world’s first large-scale outdoor formation drone flight illuminated the night sky as part and centerpiece of the open-air music festival Klangwolke.

  • (St)Age of Participation

    (St)Age of Participation

    Between 2011 and 2015, under the scientific direction of Christopher Lindinger, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and media artist, choreographer and composer Klaus Obermaier have been jointly investigating innovative forms of audience involvement in stage-based media art.