Projects
Projects
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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.
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Being Anton
Immersive Sounds of the Industrial Revolution
The immersive sound space Being Anton at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz – developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab – offers visitors the opportunity to experience the sound world of composer Anton Bruckner in a new way: Accompanied by historical recordings, they explore the world of sound and music from the Industrial Revolution.
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Converge
Collaboration via Avatars and Movement
Converge is an interactive work for Deep Space 8K by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, based on SHARESPACE, a large European R&D project on using avatars in social situations. In Converge, up to ten participants on site and one external person in a motion capture suit are tracked – they have to communicate through movement and…
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*falcon heavy
Audiovisual multi-user artwork
*falcon heavy is a multi-user experience and stereoscopic audiovisual sculpture for Deep Space 8K, generated in real-time. An ever-shifting entity rules the ritualistic semi-virtual arena; populated by people participating together to find synchronous signals in all the noise.
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Memories for Futures
Participative Installation for Rural Life
Memories for Futures is a multi-modal media arts installation designed to foster care and discussion about rural life’s future. Local stories, places and impressions from the village of Azusakawachi in the Japanese prefecture of Shiga are linked here to provide insights into the lives of the inhabitants and their very personal history.
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NeXus Open Research
Extended Reality and the Future of Print
NeXus Open Research explores future Extended Reality (XR) technologies, using scenario-based design to dive into the future of print. It envisions applications through detailed narratives, focusing on XR technologies at the nexus of co-creation.
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Art for Transformation
Collective Creativity for Tokyo’s Future
Visitors were invited to a three-day series of activities in Tokyo in November 2024 under the motto Art for Transformation, highlighting the transformative potential of public engagement, creativity, and technological exploration.
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Art Thinking Lounge 2024
Hands-on Transformation through Art
The Art Thinking Lounge is an engaging space for those new to Art Thinking – a methodology that encourages creativity, innovation, and dialog. Debuted at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024, visitors were invited to explore and apply Art Thinking through hands-on exercises, discussions, artworks, and prototypes.
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City of Artists
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2024
The Matsudo International Science Art Festival is an annual celebration held in the beautiful city of Matsudo, Japan. In 2024, the festival’s theme was “City of Artists,” unlocking the creativity and inner artist in all of us.
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Buzz Swatters
Playful Pandemic Prevention
Buzzing noises, an inconspicuous window, tropical humidity, and the impression of being chased: Buzz Swatters: Playful Pandemic Prevention addresses the collective action problem of infectious diseases in an innovative and playful way.