Projects

Projects

  • Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Ars Electronica’s Most Exciting Experience Space

    Three visually stunning dimensions, over 50 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

    Playable Climate Futures in Deep Space 8K

    E-vehicle or public transport? Nuclear power or renewable energy? Lab meat or vegan diet? The climate crisis challenges us with questions to which there are no easy answers. Important decisions await, and every action we take today has implications far into the future. Wouldn’t it be helpful to test our choices in virtual reality to…

  • Glockner.Luft.Raum

    Glockner.Luft.Raum

    Climate and Weather Data Experience

    Glockner.Luft.Raum is an approximately 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

    Can Machines and Nature Co-Create Music?

    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 brought together AI, biology, and Deep Space technologies to develop an immersive audio and visual experience.

  • Sounding Letters

    Sounding Letters

    Visualized Human/AI Piano Performance

    A captivating virtual experience: the 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 @ Ars Electronica Festival

    In 2022, the Ars Electronica Futurelab once again organized a special “Open Futurelab” program for the general public during the Ars Electronica Festival: Futurelab Day on September 8, themed “Creative Resilience for a Planet B.”

  • Play the Façade

    Play the Façade

    38,500 LEDs to Spark Public Creativity

    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 public was able to take control of the illuminated museum exterior for the first time via the façade terminal. This was followed in 2022 by the new edition – with…

  • Life Ink

    Life Ink

    Human Creativity as Immersive 3D Ink

    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.

  • Re-imagining the mobility of the future

    Re-imagining the mobility of the future

    Experience Lab for Open Dialogue

    Re-imagining the mobility of the future is a collaborative project encouraging open discussions about what future mobility could mean. Presented at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022, it encouraged visitors to share their views on future technology and ideas for their ideal mode of transportation.

  • AI5production

    AI5production

    Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

    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 supports manufacturing companies in Austria in matters of digital transformation.

  • 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…

  • Dataspace

    Dataspace

    Global impacts of the Russian war on Ukraine

    February 24, 2022. In the midst of a global pandemic, Russia invaded Ukraine. Until today this war in Europe continues. This also poses questions for the media as well as the general public: What is truth, what is the role of journalism, and how can art and journalism contribute in a meaningful way in the…