Following an extended period of integrating contributions from the Ars Electronica Futurelab at various festival settings, the 2018 Open Futurelab initiative in the POSTCITY was intended to create a key interface for the lab’s creative international network.
For this purpose, a branded exhibition space at the festival location was provided for the first time. Curated by the Lab’s team, the area served as a core location for demos and presentations and as a tangible hub for contact and information. At the same time, an interface to the interested festival audience has been established there.

Both ground and airspace were united into a seamless presentation space with a unique drone performance: with Swarm Arena, Japanese telecom giant NTT and the Lab’s Spaxels Research Team showed first prototypes and developments that enabled a completely new visual audience experience based on data visualization, swarm intelligence of robotic organisms and interactivity. A DIY Drone Lab invited visitors to a tricky self-experience with quadrocopters in an obstacle track. Also a presentation the QUT Lab Academy’s exhibits was part of the program.

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