
Partnering with Intel โข on the Drone 100 project paid off tremendously for the Spaxels crew in terms of technical impetus and media coverage. Following this momentous achievement and with the next Ars Electronica Festival coming up, it was high time to demonstrate just how far this undertaking had come at the very spot where…

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Rupert Huber and Richard Dorfmeister (aka TOSCA) premiered their new album Odeon at Linzโs Musiktheater together with vocalists Sarah Carlier, Robert Gallagher, Rodney Hunter and Jay Jay Jones as well as the Wiener K&K String Quartet.

ZeitRaum (โTimeSpaceโ) is an interactive art installation the Ars Electronica Futurelab designed for the new terminal at Vienna International Airport. It creates real-time interpretations of arriving and departing flights.

Ars Electronica Futurelabโs quadcopter swarm was one of the highlights of the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke (Cloud of Sound) in Linz. More than 90,000 spectators lined both banks of the Danube to witness a then world record: a formation flight by no fewer than 49 quadcopters. Never before had such a large squadron of whirlybird drones…

The Ars Electronica Futurelab and Honda R&D worked together to research the next generation of the relationship between humans and robots – with the humanoid robot Honda ASIMO at the center.

โIl mondo della luna โ The World in the moonโ by Joseph Haydn at the 2009 international Bruckner Festival โIl mondo della lunaโ has been performed in the Brucknerhaus by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under conductor Martin Sieghart.

โPapyrateโs Islandโ is a multi-user interactive narrative on the Deep Space platform that was developed in collaboration with the Media Interaction Lab in Hagenberg. Technically speaking, โPapyrateโs Islandโ is a cross between a VR environment and a nonlinear animation film.

As a follow-up to their โDas Rheingold โ Visionizedโ pilot project, the Ars Electronica Futurelab again collaborated with artist Johannes Deutsch on a performance of Gustav Mahlerโs Symphony Nr. 2 in C minor as an interactive visualization in three-dimensional space.

An interactive simulation environment visualized technological approaches that city planners and architects of the future would be working with. This installation was an expanded spin-off of โGulliverโs World,โ the Ars Electronica Centerโs mixed reality environment, and used a simple urban planning model as an example illustrating concrete application possibilities. Visitors could manipulate the various scenarios…

The collaboration between SAP and Ars Electronica has been in place since 2002. This partnership is a prototype for new models of collaboration between art, business, technology and society. The collaboration ranges from media art presentations at SAP events and novel visualizations of information to joint research projects and innovative social initiatives.