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State of Play:شهر بازی
Anti-Colonial, Participative Art Performance
State of Play:شهر بازی by artists Tara Habibzadeh, Harriet Davey, and Mati Bratkowski, is a game-based participative art performance referencing the 7 Labors of Rostam in the long epic poem Shahnameh by Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Iran, 977–1010 CE). In it, up to 5 audience members reenact the final labour, controlling their avatars of Rostam in…
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Long Night of Research 2024
As the artistic research and development laboratory of Ars Electronica, the Futurelab used the Long Night of Research 2024 to present its current work to the public. On May 24, 2024, researchers and artists from the Futurelab therefore got in touch with visitors at the Ars Electronica Center with workshops and demonstrations.
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Lingxiao Luo (CN): Behaving Knit
Lingxiao Luo is a knitwear designer, material researcher, and PhD student, committed to interdisciplinary work. During her one-month residency at Ars Electronica’s Futurelab in October 2023, she expanded upon the central themes of her PhD research, Behaving Knit: Exploring the Integrative Solution for Shape-changing Wearables by Knitting Technologies.
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Chiara Croci (IT): Ori Shelter
Chiara Croci is a Research Assistant at the Ars Electronica Futurelab working in Origami and Robotics research. She has a background in Industrial Design, and after finishing her studies at the University of Ferrara, she is now enrolled at the University of Johannesburg, completing her Masters within the Department of Industrial Design in the Faculty…
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Tom Bogaert (BE): Objection
The Artist in Residence 2023 at the Ars Electronica Futurelab was Tom Bogaert, who came to art after a career as a refugee worker with the United Nations and Amnesty International. His artistic practice is structured around in situ projects that examine the intersections of politics, entertainment, technology, art, and propaganda.
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Roel Heremans (BE): The NeuroRight Arcades
In 2022, the Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab was Roel Heremans. With his team, he developed The NeuroRight Arcades and presented the outcome at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022. Subsequently, a summary installation of the project was on display at the Ars Electronica Center.
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Magellan Robot
On the 6th of March 1521 a small fleet of Spanish ships under the command of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Island of Guam in the Pacific. They were greeted by curious natives, the Chamorro. Some of them came aboard and started to look around. They began to evaluate the many useful items…
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Biomaterial Art Lab
In this project, we explore biological and chemical methods to create materials for art and design. Biological materials based on the natural process and life science are beautiful, versatile, and ecological.
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Fanny Zaman (BE): The Future is Coded
Residency in Cooperation with the Flemish Ministry of Culture, Youth and Media
The Flemish Ministry of Culture, Youth and Media launched a new subsidy in 2020 to support digital innovation and cooperation between the arts and research sectors. Artists, (digital) creators, game developers or researchers could apply for a stay in three foreign institutes working at the interface between art, culture, science and technology: Ars Electronica Futurelab,…
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Creation of A.I.dam
With the help of the Multimodal Acoustic Trap Display, small plastic particles can be made to float using audio signals and then be illuminated. This particle is now moved so quickly that the impression of a three-dimensional object in space can be conveyed. An additionally generated sound pressure creates the impression of touch. With this…