Cyntha Wieringa
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Open Futurelab 2025
Participate @ Ars Electronica Festival
At the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 from September 3 to 7, 2025, in Linz, Austria, the Futurelab invites you to back to the Open Futurelab, Deep Space 8K, and the popular Futurelab Night. Festival visitors experience the lab’s latest works and can also actively participate in its research.
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NeXus Print
Immersive XR Sandbox for Inclusive Co-Creation
NeXus Print is a creative sandbox communication tool that enables groups to collaboratively and simultaneously explore, shape, and share their collective imagination in real time. It invites users into a shared immersive XR space where they co-create and reimagine environments using generative AI in a live, participatory process.
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SHARESPACE
Exploring Social Spaces with Avatars
How could humans use digital avatars in the near future? How can we engage in social situations that include both human and automated avatars? And what technology do we need to explore these ‘hybrid’ spaces together? This is the focus of the European R&D project SHARESPACE.
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Shiga Future Thinking Week
Futures for a Water-Centric Society
Shiga Future Thinking Week in Japan invited visitors to explore the potential of a water-centric society through artworks and projects – ranging from multi-modal installations based on the memories of villagers and examinations on Lake Biwa’s many impacts on local life to a data-based menu experience.
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Open Futurelab 2024
Shaping HOPE @ Ars Electronica Festival
We at the Ars Electronica Futurelab understand HOPE – motto of the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 – as a process that can be shaped through art and active participation. We therefore invited everyone to shape HOPE together: from September 4 to 8, 2024, at the Open Futurelab in POSTCITY at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Converge
Collaboration via Avatars and Movement
Converge is an interactive work for Deep Space 8K by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, based on SHARESPACE, a large European R&D project on using avatars in social situations. In Converge, up to ten participants on site and one external person in a motion capture suit are tracked – they have to communicate through movement and…
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*falcon heavy
Audiovisual multi-user artwork
*falcon heavy is a multi-user experience and stereoscopic audiovisual sculpture for Deep Space 8K, generated in real-time. An ever-shifting entity rules the ritualistic semi-virtual arena; populated by people participating together to find synchronous signals in all the noise.
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Memories for Futures
Participative Installation for Rural Life
Memories for Futures is a multi-modal media arts installation designed to foster care and discussion about rural life’s future. Local stories, places and impressions from the village of Azusakawachi in the Japanese prefecture of Shiga are linked here to provide insights into the lives of the inhabitants and their very personal history.
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NeXus Open Research
Extended Reality and the Future of Print
NeXus Open Research explores future Extended Reality (XR) technologies, using scenario-based design to dive into the future of print. It envisions applications through detailed narratives, focusing on XR technologies at the nexus of co-creation.
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State of Play:شهر بازی
Anti-Colonial, Participative Art Performance
State of Play:شهر بازی by artists Tara Habibzadeh, Harriet Davey, and Mati Bratkowski, is a game-based participative art performance referencing the 7 Labors of Rostam in the long epic poem Shahnameh by Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Iran, 977–1010 CE). In it, up to 5 audience members reenact the final labour, controlling their avatars of Rostam in…
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FOUNDING LAB Fall Term
New Formats for Future Universities
The FOUNDING LAB Fall Term is a continuation of the FOUNDING LAB collaboration between Austrian university IT:U and Ars Electronica, spanning September 2023 to January 2024. IT:U started its operation in 2023 with the FOUNDING LAB, supported by experts of Ars Electronica including a team of Ars Electronica Futurelab members.
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Open Futurelab 2023
Social Technology @ Ars Electronica Festival
Reaching out to one another, spreading hope in trying times and literally grasping technology as a social tool for the futures: this is what the Open Futurelab as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2023, from September 6 to 10, was all about.