Projects
Projects
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Garden of Creativity @ Matsudo City International Science Art Festival
From November 21st to 22nd 2020, the Ars Electronica Futurelab contributed to the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo, Japan, for the third time – on the theme of “Garden of Creativity”.
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Artistic Journalism 2020
Keio University SFC Online Course
Ars Electronica Futurelab director Hideaki Ogawa taught an online course entitled “Artistic Journalism” at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus). This experimental series of classes discusses artistic journalism through online lectures, online guided tours and dialogues with the Ars Electronica Center.
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Cascade
8K Future Projects
Since 2018, NHK and Ars Electronica Futurelab have conducted joint research on the new possibilities of 8K technology and its social and cultural impact. Under the theme of Beyond the Frame – 8K Future Projects, we have created a prototype for social togetherness in the 8K Platz project, and a new scale of broadcast content…
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Spotless
An Artifact-Bound, Augmented-Reality Powered Social Interface
Spotless’s goal is to empower users to utilize arbitrary objects as communication channels. The basic concept is to connect objects or “artifacts” by the means of their visual equality.
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Deepandemia / DeepChanges
With immersive VR simulations in the VR environment of Deep Space 8K, the Ars Electronica Futurelab aims to vividly convey scientific knowledge and inspire reflection and discussion: Deepandemia visualizes the COVID-19 infection chain in simulated everyday environments to virtually test how individual behavior can affect the worldwide pandemic.
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School of the Future Festival 2020: Dappi
The School of the Future Festival 2020—a cooperation between Ars Electronica and TOKYO MIDTOWN—took place from February 20th to February 24th 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Artistic Journalism
Artistic journalism is the act of creating a social dialogue through artistic expression, research, exploration, and action. To engage students in this method, Ars Electronica Futurelab co-director Hideaki Ogawa has been teaching “Artistic Journalism” online courses at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus).
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AI x Music
Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center
The potential of artificial intelligence in musical applications has been demonstrated by various projects in recent years. Modern AI can certainly be seen as another step towards expanding musical possibilities through the use of technology.
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CoBot Studio
As humans and robots work together ever more closely, their joint success is linked to certain preconditions: How do you create safe working environments? How can we increase the acceptance of robots in everyday work? And how do you communicate with a colleague who consists only of a gripper arm?
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Open Futurelab 2019
The festival site at POSTCITY in Linz was used as a stage for Open Futurelab until 2019. Created with the Japanese public broadcasting company NHK, Media Platz was a prototype of an open media plaza consisting of cardboard and high-resolution screens, which was used as a forum for public debate. Various panel discussions took place…
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Future Citizen @ Matsudo City International Science Art Festival
From November 16th to 17th 2019, the Ars Electronica Futurelab contributed to the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo, Japan, for the second time – with an “Ars Electronica Salon” on the theme of “Future Citizen”.
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Fluxels
Choreographed swarm of ground robots as a medium of art
Fluxels is a play on words inspired by an association of Spaxels, “Fluxus” and the aesthetic quality of swift, fluid movement. It is the name for a ground robot platform developed in the Ars Electronica Futurelab, conceived for swarm bot performances as part of a collaboration with NTT.