Shiga Future Thinking Week in Japan invited visitors to explore the potential of a water-centric society through artworks and projects – ranging from multi-modal installations based on the memories of villagers and examinations on Lake Biwa’s many impacts on local life to a data-based menu experience.
“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.
How can art create meaning from data? The Ars Electronica Futurelab, in collaboration with Toyota Coniq in Japan, is envisioning “Data Art & Science,” a new interdisciplinary field that incorporates artistic perspectives on future transformations based on data science.
Can the human mind and body become a pen that generates ink to express our creativity? Life Ink explores the inner mechanism of creativity by visualizing brainwaves and body signals as immersive three-dimensional ink – lending color to our thoughts, feelings, and creative sparks.
What does it mean to compose together with a machine? What forms of musical authorship emerge when generative systems no longer function merely as tools but actively engage in artistic processes? Ricercar is a research software that operates precisely at this intersection between human artistic intuition and machine autonomy – not to resolve this tension,…