Deep Space 8K

  • Notre-Dame Immersive

    Notre-Dame Immersive

    3D-Journey through the Paris Landmark

    Visitors of Notre-Dame Immersive can explore a huge model of the world-famous Paris cathedral and discover its special features in stereoscopic 3D. The immersive journey in Deep Space 8K of the Ars Electronica Center encompasses impressive architecture, historical representations, and larger-than-life details of the elaborate glass windows.

  • Converge

    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…

  • *falcon heavy

    *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. 

  • State of Play:شهر بازی

    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…

  • SHARESPACE

    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.

  • Deep Sync

    Deep Sync

    Sharing Heartbeats in Immersive Space

    Deep Sync creates an interactive playground for sound and visuals in the immersive Deep Space 8K environment. At the center of attention is the heartbeat of the visitors, which is artistically represented and thus has an effect on the entire group.

  • Media Spaces & Generative Art

    Media Spaces & Generative Art

    This year marks the 10th anniversary of FH Hagenberg students working together with the Ars Electronica Futurelab on semester projects in which they creatively explore their approaches to interactive and generative arts. Uniquely, these projects are realized in media spaces like the Deep Space 8K that present a very special challenge in themselves.

  • Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Three visually stunning dimensions, over 50 million pixels of resolution, and a high-performance tracking system make Ars Electronica’s Deep Space 8K one of the world’s most exciting digital experience spaces – developed, built, and continuously maintained by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

  • Welcome to Planet B

    Welcome to Planet B

    E-vehicle or public transport? Nuclear power or renewable energy? Lab meat or vegan diet? Urban living or shared rural home? The climate crisis currently challenges us with questions to which there are no easy answers. Alternative concepts await important decisions, and every action we take today has implications far into the future. Wouldn’t it be…

  • Sounding Letters

    Sounding Letters

    Visualized AI/Human composed piano performance

    A captivating virtual experience: the new program Sounding Letters at Deep Space 8K shows how humans and AI create music together with a 3D piano concert.

  • Dataspace

    Dataspace

    Global impacts of the Russian war on Ukraine

    February 24, 2022. In the midst of a global pandemic, Russia invaded Ukraine. Until today this war in Europe continues. This also poses questions for the media as well as the general public: What is truth, what is the role of journalism, and how can art and journalism contribute in a meaningful way in the…

  • Welcome to Planet B

    Welcome to Planet B

    A children’s pop-up book about climate change

    Entirely analog and easy to grasp even for little hands: the new Deep Space 8K application Welcome to Planet B was brought to a child-friendly format for 8- to 12-year-olds in 2022 as part of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s creative contest Ideas Expedition. The interactive pop-up book is designed to get kids excited about climate…