Ali Nikrang
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Futurelab Day 2022
Creative Resilience @ Ars Electronica Festival
In 2022, the Ars Electronica Futurelab once again organized a special “Open Futurelab” program for the general public during the Ars Electronica Festival: Futurelab Day on September 8, themed “Creative Resilience for a Planet B.”
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AI5production
Digital Transformation in Manufacturing
Ars Electronica Futurelab, Ars Electronica Festival and the Ars Electronica Center’s Future Thinking School are part of a large-scale pilot project involving more than a dozen Austrian research institutions: AI5production supports manufacturing companies in Austria in matters of digital transformation.
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WebExpression
Painting Our Hybrid Working World in Real-Time
A composition of strands, strings, and tones in an imaginary space makes up this vivid real-time painting to artistically interpret anonymized data of today’s hybrid working world.
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Mission KI
Hands-On Exhibits on Artificial Intelligence
In collaboration with the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the Deutsches Museum in Bonn has reinvented itself to become a central platform for the future topic of artificial intelligence: in two themed experience rooms, visitors to the Mission KI (Mission AI) exhibition can now explore the key technology of the 21st century.
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Alchemists of the Future
25 years of Ars Electronica Futurelab
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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AI Ink
AI Composition with Humans and Noise
Noise is an important element in the creativity of artificial intelligence. To understand the relationship between noise and the “soul” in a machine, we used temperature and human interaction as noise in the AI Ink project while composing music with artificial intelligence. After all, temperature is also associated to emotions in the human body.
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Artistic Journalism 2021
Online Course on Social Dialogue
In 2021, Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Artistic Director Hideaki Ogawa taught an online course at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus) on “Artistic Journalism”: the act of creating a social dialogue through artistic expression, research, exploration, and action.
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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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The Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral
Immersive Journey in Stereoscopic 8K
As part of the European R&D project Immersify, the data from spatial measurement of St. Stephen in Vienna with more than 21 billion laser points was converted into a translucent representation of the cathedral. The result is an innovative interactive and immersive journey through the building in stereoscopic 8K in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep…
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The Great Pyramid in 3D
Journey Through the World Wonder in 12K
The Great Pyramid in 3D, From the BBC Series Ancient Invisible Cities is an interactive immersive experience for the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K. Visitors can take a deep virtual dive inside the oldest wonder of the ancient world, the Great Pyramid of Giza. They are able to move interactively through the 360° 3D…
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Ricercar
Interactive AI-Based Composition System
Ricercar is an interactive AI-based music composition system. Here, users and artificial intelligence collaboratively discover the potential of a musical idea. The system is constantly being developed and has already been used in numerous works like Walzersymphonie and Absolute Hallucination.
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Future Ink
In Creativity, Where Is My Soul?
The Future Ink Project is a research project to explore the future of creativity from all aspects of ink. Various prototypes were developed in the course of Future Ink, from using tablets and drones to paint to visualizing brainwaves and body signals as immersive three-dimensional ink.