Alchemists of the Future
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Hybrid Space
Interactive Telepresence Museum Experience
Hybrid Space was an installation by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, presented as part of the lab’s 25-years anniversary in 2021. It provided an interactive space in the Ars Electronica Center where museum visitors could meet and interact with online visitors.
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Hands for the Future
Participatory Installation on Social Issues
Hands for the Future is a participatory media installation at the Ars Electronica Center that serves as a call to action for the various deep issues that humanity urgently needs to address.
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The Experts of the Future
Future Narrative Workshop for Kids
For its 25th anniversary, a Futurelab team collected opinions from internationally renowned futurologists to collaboratively speculate about possible future narratives in the next 25 years. Their journey to the future even ventured outside of our hemisphere to undiscovered planets. What was special about the experts for the future? On average, they were seven years old.
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ORI*BOTICS
The Art and Science of Robotic Origami
ORI*BOTICS, the art and science of robotic origami, is a follow-on research project that continues the investigation of origami, technology and nature. It extends on our novel methods for designing and making strong, flexible and highly irregular origami from textiles and 3D printing, namely Fold Printing and Fold Mapping.
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Sounding Letters
When AI Turns Letters Into Music
Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ars Electronica Center celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2021. As part of the celebrations, Sounding Letters was created: it utilizes the initial letters of the two institutions as a musical theme, which was used to compose a piece of music with the help of the AI system Ricercar.
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Memo Futurum
Sharing Future Visions Across Time
Memo Futurum is an invitation to engage with our personal and collective visions of the future. The public was able to participate via website and submit a voice message until the end of 2021. The contributions were then transferred to vinyl records, which will only be opened again in 25 years, when the cycle begins…
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OutReach
Telepresence is a great tool that gives people the ability to be in far away places without having to travel. Telepresence robots like Double Robot are great tools for communication. However, they usually lack ways to interact physically with their environment. This reduces the autonomy and freedom of movement of robot users. This way, telepresence…
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Deep Virtual
Ars Electronica Futurelab’s video production system Deep Virtual is able to merge virtual into physical reality in real time and to transmit this hybrid reality instantly. With its development, the Lab has set a milestone in the history of Deep Space 8K : The idea for live hybrid video production takes the broadcasting of virtual…
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Future Ink
Life Ink / Bio Ink / AI Ink / Space Ink
The Future Ink Project is a collaborative research project between Wacom and Ars Electronica Futurelab to explore the future of creativity from all aspects of ink. As the world’s leader in pen tablets, interactive pen displays, and digital interface technologies, Wacom brings people and technology closer together through natural, intuitive interface solutions. Through the joint…
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Understanding AI
What can we understand by the term Artificial Intelligence and what do we want to understand by it? What do we actually understand about human intelligence and what does it have to do with attempts at modelling it?
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Deep Space 8K
The Deep Space 8K has received a major upgrade in 2022 – read all about the technical innovations as well as the latest programs on our Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION page!