Projects
2024
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Virtual 3D Anatomy Lecture Hall
World first for medical teaching
A novel virtual 3D lecture hall connects the Austrian medical universities in Linz and Graz: students can follow lectures on Virtual Anatomy and dissection work in stereoscopic 3D, live and in real-time, from over 200 kilometers away.
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Walzersymphonie
Johann Strauss II and Creative AI
The year 2025 marks the 200th birthday of world-famous composer Johann Strauss II On behalf of Johann Strauss Festjahr 2025 Wien, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is dedicating itself to this anniversary with “Walzersymphonie” (Waltz Symphony). The project’s central question is: “How can artists use the creative potential of AI technologies?”
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Notre-Dame Immersive
3D-Journey through the Paris Landmark
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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Persistent Time Sink Resonance
Reality Volumes through Rasterization
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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Melt This!
Radical Dialog on Glacial Melting
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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Pillars of Democracy
Interactive Installation at Vienna’s Parliament
Pillars of Democracy is a playful 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…
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Data Art & Science Project 2024
Revitalizing Local Culture in Shiga (JP)
Data Art & Science (DAS) is a new interdisciplinary field to incorporate artistic perspectives on data. At the Ars Electronica Festival 2024, visitors were able to experience new works developed as part of DAS – as a prototype for a new DAS Center. It is intended to revitalize local culture in the Japanese prefecture of Shiga…
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Absolute Hallucination
An AI Self-Playing Piano Improvisation
Absolute Hallucination: An AI Self-Playing Piano Improvisation by Futurelab Key Researcher Ali Nikrang explores the creative space learned by an AI-based music composition system by randomly traveling through different compositional paths. It provokes questions about the nature of music and the hallucinatory characteristics of generative AI. The world premiere of this piece took place at…
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Open Futurelab 2024
Shaping HOPE @ 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.
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Futurelab Night 2024
Future Report @ Ars Electronica Festival
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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Collective Transformation Lab
Engaging Strategies for Social Challenges
“Think slow, act fast” is the mantra of the Collective Transformation Lab – an enlightening self-reflection platform established as a collaboration between tech start-up Godot and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Playing Anton
3D Immersion into Bruckner’s 9th Symphony
What makes up the gigantic, imposing sound of a Bruckner symphony? Visitors explore the question playfully and interactively with Playing Anton – an innovative application for the Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center, developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.