Projects
Projects
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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.
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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…
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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.
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Klangwolken ABC
The Klangwolken ABC was initiated as a social participation project, focusing on “character” in the age of networks, constituting one of the core programs at the voestalpine Klangwolke 2012. The audience was invited to design their own characters that could interact with the radio frequencies of the event – resulting in a huge galaxy of…
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ZeitRaum
ZeitRaum (“TimeSpace”) is an interactive art installation the Ars Electronica Futurelab designed for the new terminal at Vienna International Airport. It creates real-time interpretations of arriving and departing flights.
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Spaxels / Klangwolke – Quadrocopter
Ars Electronica Futurelab’s quadcopter swarm was one of the highlights of the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke (Cloud of Sound) in Linz. More than 90,000 spectators lined both banks of the Danube to witness a then world record: a formation flight by no fewer than 49 quadcopters. Never before had such a large squadron of whirlybird drones…
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Ars Electronica Center Façade Terminal
The “Fassadenterminal” (façade terminal) was developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and presented to the public in 2010: It enabled artistic use of the Ars Electronica Center’s media façade, that is equipped with 38,500 LEDs.
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(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.
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Robotinity Exhibition
Human beings have been developing machines for thousands of years. But what drives us on to do so? Is it the urge to understand and recreate nature and its processes? Is it perhaps our audacious pretensions to be capable of improving on the world as it is? Or are we just curious?
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Shadowgram
Shadowgram is an interactive project by the Ars Electronica Futurelab that combines creative expression with social participation: Users’ shadows are transformed into physical stickers that they can place in shared spaces, sparking societal dialogue.
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Human Robot Harmony
Research with Humanoid Robot Honda ASIMO
The Ars Electronica Futurelab and Honda R&D worked together to research the next generation of the relationship between humans and robots – with the humanoid robot Honda ASIMO at the center.
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Oribotics
[the future unfolds]
In cooperation with the University of Linz’s Institute of Polymer Product Engineering, the Australian origami- and media artist Matthew Gardiner cultivated interactive flowerbeds. During the 2010 Ars Electronica Festival they brought the industrial architecture of the former tobacco processing plant into full bloom.