Projects

2022

  • Future Teams

    Future Teams

    Ricoh, Art and Program, and Ars Electronica Futurelab have launched a collaborative research project in August 2022 with the mission to inspire and support human creativity in the future workplace. The project aims to develop innovative technologies, spaces, and services that enhance team creativity and foster mutual care among future teams.

  • Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Three visually stunning dimensions, 33 million pixels of resolution and a high-performance tracking system make Ars Electronica’s Deep Space 8K one of the world’s most exciting digital experience spaces – developed, built, and continuously maintained by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

  • Welcome to Planet B

    Welcome to Planet B

    E-vehicle or public transport? Nuclear power or renewable energy? Lab meat or vegan diet? Urban living or shared rural home? The climate crisis currently challenges us with questions to which there are no easy answers. Alternative concepts await important decisions, and every action we take today has implications far into the future. Wouldn’t it be…

  • Glockner.Luft.Raum

    Glockner.Luft.Raum

    Glockner.Luft.Raum is an approx. 15-minute data-based generative sequence that makes the complex connections between global climate change and regional weather kitchen in the Austrian Glockner region visible, audible, and tangible.

  • SonoSynthesis

    SonoSynthesis

    In the new era of creative collaboration, can machines and nature co-create art and music? In the SonoSynthesis project, a team of researchers from the Ars Electronica Futurelab brings together AI, biology, and Deep Space technologies to develop an immersive audio and visual experience created through the interaction between artificial intelligence and biological entities. The…

  • Sounding Letters

    Sounding Letters

    Visualized AI/Human composed piano performance

    A captivating virtual experience: the new program Sounding Letters at Deep Space 8K shows how humans and AI create music together with a 3D piano concert.

  • Futurelab Day 2022

    Futurelab Day 2022

    Creative Resilience for a Planet B

    In 2022, the Ars Electronica Futurelab once again organized a special “Open Futurelab” program for the general public during the Ars Electronica Festival: The Futurelab Day on September 8, featuring high-level discussions, presentations of the lab’s latest projects, a wide variety of workshops and electrifying artistic performances. The day was themed “Creative Resilience for a…

  • Play the Façade

    Play the Façade

    The façade of the Ars Electronica Center, with its 38,500 LEDs, has been shaping the cityscape of Linz since 2009. Just one year later, the “sprucing up” of this landmark turned into something bigger, something innovative: with the façade terminal, the Ars Electronica Futurelab transformed the static museum shell into a designable medium for the…

  • Life Ink

    Life Ink

    Can the human mind and body become the pen that generates ink that expresses our creativity? Life Ink by the Ars Electronica Futurelab in collaboration with Wacom explores the inner mechanism of creativity in our brain and body. The joint research team developed wearable gear that captures brainwaves and body signals in real time. The…

  • Re-imagining the mobility of the future

    Re-imagining the mobility of the future

    Ars Electronica Futurelab x BMW x SUPERSENSE

    The project Re-imagining the mobility of the future is a collaborative project between BMW Group Design, SUPERSENSE and the Ars Electronica Futurelab, supported by sociologist Bernhard Böhm. It was conducted as a workshop format under the title “Experience Lab Project” as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2022 to encourage visitors to think about what…

  • AI5production

    AI5production

    Ars Electronica Futurelab, Ars Electronica Festival and the Ars Electronica Center’s Future Thinking School are part of a large-scale pilot project involving more than a dozen Austrian research institutions: AI5production – funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and the EU Commission – supports manufacturing companies in Austria in matters of digital transformation in…

  • Future Mobility Lounge

    Future Mobility Lounge

    Future Mobility Lounge was a talk and workshop event on future mobility and sustainability, jointly organized by Hyundai Mobility Japan, which is Hyundai Motor Company’s Japanese subsidiary, and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It was held on October 28 and 29, 2022, at the Hyundai Customer Experience Center in Yokohama, Japan, in a unique event format that…