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 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.
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.
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.
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 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, 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.
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…
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.