education
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Virtual 3D Anatomy Lecture Hall
World first for medical teaching
A novel virtual 3D lecture hall connects the Austrian medical universities in Linz and Graz: students can follow lectures on Virtual Anatomy and dissection work in stereoscopic 3D, live and in real-time, from over 200 kilometers away.
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Walzersymphonie
Johann Strauss II and Creative AI
The year 2025 marks the 200th birthday of world-famous composer Johann Strauss II. On behalf of Johann Strauss Festjahr 2025 Wien, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is dedicating itself to this anniversary with “Walzersymphonie” (Waltz Symphony). The project’s central question is: “How can artists use the creative potential of AI technologies?”
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Art for Transformation
Collective Creativity for Tokyo’s Future
Visitors were invited to a three-day series of activities in Tokyo in November 2024 under the motto Art for Transformation, highlighting the transformative potential of public engagement, creativity, and technological exploration.
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Think as an Artist
Transdisciplinary Summer Academy in Prato
To incorporate the Ars Electronica perspective and our experience with setting up transdisciplinary education formats, the Ars Electronica Futurelab was invited to co-host a transdisciplinary Summer Academy for postgraduate students in Prato, Italy, in July 2024.
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Public Pixels
Northeastern University 2024
July 2024 marked the fourth time the Ars Electronica Futurelab welcomed an interdisciplinary group of students from Northeastern University in Boston. Over a tightly packed three-day period, the students were once again tasked with creating media art projects for the Ars Electronica Center’s programmable media facade – showcasing how collaboration can transform a public space…
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Long Night of Research 2024
As the artistic research and development laboratory of Ars Electronica, the Futurelab used the Long Night of Research 2024 to present its current work to the public. On May 24, 2024, researchers and artists from the Futurelab therefore got in touch with visitors at the Ars Electronica Center with workshops and demonstrations.
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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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missimo
Mobile STEAM Learning for Kids
missimo is a project for children aged eight to ten that offers many experiments on topics such as AI, robotics, and programming. The special appeal: missimo visits primary schools in Austria’s rural areas by truck.
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Bridge 2040
Intergenerational Game for Future Stories
Bridge 2040 is a card game in which children and senior citizens develop future narratives together, building a bridge between the generations. It has been expanded to be used in different settings such as innovation workshops and is now available in German, English, and Japanese.
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Coral Bike
Mobile workshop on marine forests
The Coral Bike is a mobile workshop by the Natural History Museum Vienna that focuses on the importance of and threats to marine forests. The e-bike makes stops in urban parks, where it becomes a mobile learning space for 5th to 8th grade classes: with hands-on science.
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Northeastern University 2023
Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy
In 2023, the Ars Electronica Futurelab hosted an interdisciplinary group from Northeastern University in Boston for the third time. With the help of lab members, the students created art projects for the programmable media façade of the Ars Electronica Center in three intensive days.
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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.