Projects
Projects
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Circular Creativity
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2022
The Matsudo International Science Art Festival is a yearly celebration that takes place in the beautiful city of Matsudo in Japan. This festival brings together a diverse group of artists, scientists, and researchers from all over the world to showcase their latest and greatest projects. The festival’s aim is to connect the worlds of art,…
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WebExpression
A composition of strands, strings, and tones in an imaginary space makes up this vivid real-time painting developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab together with Cisco Systems to artistically interpret the activities on the WebEx communication platform.
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Welcome to Planet B
A children’s pop-up book about climate change
Entirely analog and easy to grasp even for little hands: the new Deep Space 8K application Welcome to Planet B was brought to a child-friendly format for 8- to 12-year-olds in 2022 as part of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s creative contest Ideas Expedition. The interactive pop-up book is designed to get kids excited about climate…
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Artistic Journalism 2022
Keio University SFC Online Course
Ars Electronica Futurelab and Keio University SFC have jointly established an online lecture named “Artistic Journalism” as a literacy for the futures, starting in 2020. Futurelab’s director, Hideaki Ogawa, was invited to teach the experimental class from the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.
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Northeastern University 2022
In the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy, we challenge the creativity of students in workshops, seminars and project-focused mentoring sessions. For the students, the hands-on approach of the Futurelab, paired with the potential and exposure of the Ars Electronica ecosystem, is a unique opportunity to develop their ideas and skills; for us Futurelab researchers, the dialogue…
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Mission KI
In collaboration with the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the Deutsches Museum in Bonn is reinventing itself and becoming a central platform for the future topic of artificial intelligence: in two themed experience rooms, visitors to the Mission AI exhibition can now experience the key technology of the 21st century there as well.
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JKU medSPACE
The JKU medSPACE is a completely new, worldwide unique venue for teaching anatomy, located at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. Developed and implemented by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the JKU medSPACE shows anatomy like never before, in quadruple stereoscopic 3D 8K projection at 14×7 meters: Lecturers and students dive into larger than life, photorealistic…
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Alchemists of the Future
In 2021, the Ars Electronica Futurelab celebrated its 25th anniversary. Under the heading Alchemists of the Future, the Open Futurelab therefor presented a look back at the lab’s challenges and successes, but most importantly its latest ideas and glimpes into the future.
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NHM Deck 50
Participative platform for science communication
With the aim of using Citizen Science to awaken the researcher’s instinct in visitors and to get the public more involved in the scientific processes in the museum, the Natural History Museum Vienna has developed a new platform for science communication together with the Ars Electronica Futurelab and INSEQ Design: In the new Deck 50,…
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Virtual Crib
More than a hundred years after their first exhibition, the nativity scene of the Mariendom was carefully restored and then scanned by the Ars Electronica Futurelab using photogrammetry. It has been restaged as an interactive and audiovisual experience for the Mariendom and the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K. In Deep Space 8K, the virtual…
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Stream of Hope
Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Fluxels, a scalable swarm of ground robots equipped with hexagonal LED displays, brought about a new language of visual expression. The bots can transform visual content into an aesthetic performance via their integrated screens, leading to a vast range of potential applications.
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Space Ink
Space Ink combines Wacom’s pen and tablet technology with drones controlled by Ars Electronica Futurelab’s SwarmOS to envision a future where we can draw in any space with a pen. Space Ink is part of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Future Ink research, conducted between 2020 and 2022.