Arno Deutschbauer

  • Welcome to Planet B

    Welcome to Planet B

    Playable Climate Futures in Deep Space 8K

    E-vehicle or public transport? Nuclear power or renewable energy? Lab meat or vegan diet? The climate crisis challenges us with questions to which there are no easy answers. Important decisions await, and every action we take today has implications far into the future. Wouldn’t it be helpful to test our choices in virtual reality to…

  • Glockner.Luft.Raum

    Glockner.Luft.Raum

    Climate and Weather Data Experience

    Glockner.Luft.Raum is an approximately 15-minute data-based generative sequence that makes the complex connections between global climate change and regional weather kitchen in the Austrian Glockner region visible, audible, and tangible.

  • Futurelab Day 2022

    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.”

  • Mission KI

    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.

  • Alchemists of the Future

    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.

  • Virtual Crib

    Virtual Crib

    Historic Nativity Scene in Virtual Reality

    More than a hundred years after its first exhibition, the nativity scene of the New Cathedral (Mariendom) in Linz was carefully restored. A team from the Ars Electronica Futurelab then scanned the figurines and landscapes using photogrammetry to create an audiovisual VR experience in stereoscopic 3D with a 360-degree perspective.

  • Oribotic Instruments Workshop

    Oribotic Instruments Workshop

    Experimental Robotic Origami Music

    What does it take to create self-aware robotic instruments out of a piece of paper? An Ars Electronica Futurelab workshop was only the start of a new type of avant-garde robotic origami music performances.

  • Hybrid Space

    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.

  • ORI*BOTICS

    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.

  • Open Futurelab 2020

    Open Futurelab 2020

    The Open Futurelab already planned for 2020 was redesigned into a major experiment due to the Covid pandemic – intended to create a hybrid interaction space that confronted the difficulties of social distance as well as the opportunities presented by telepresence. For not only the lab itself, but the entire festival was challenged by the…

  • Hollow Words

    Hollow Words

    An installation where the true actual state from news articles is analyzed in realtime.

    Hollow words aims to create a tool which displays diversity of news reports in a more creative and broader spectrum as to recognize the importance and ability to not get lost in our own echo chambers. It displays the external but also the internal perception, but in context of delayed time. The core of the…

  • AI x Music

    AI x Music

    Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center

    The potential of artificial intelligence in musical applications has been demonstrated by various projects in recent years. Modern AI can certainly be seen as another step towards expanding musical possibilities through the use of technology.