Hideaki Ogawa
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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 invited the audience to the Open Futurelab, Deep Space 8K, and the popular Futurelab Night. Festival visitors experienced the lab’s latest works and could also actively participate in its research.
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Alter.Ego
How Do AI Personalities Affect Us?
Flashing lights, whirring motors, and cheerful chimes – at first glance, Alter.Ego looks like an ordinary arcade game. Yet instead of controlling a joystick to win a prize, players must engage in dialogue with one of its shifting AI personalities and persuade it to cooperate.
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Citizen Manifesto
Societal Dialogue Aided by AI
Citizen Manifesto is an interactive installation that transforms future visions in uncertain times into posters, culminating in a diverse and vibrant collective manifesto. The project showcases how the transparent use of generative AI can support personal expression and civic dialogue.
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Art Thinking Lounge 2025
Future Citizen Kit for New Visions
The Art Thinking Lounge invites visitors to engage with Art Thinking as a creative mindset to navigate contemporary societal challenges. In 2025, it offered a set of interactive tools under the curatorial framework of “Future Citizen Kit”: designed to broaden perspectives, experiment with new visions of the future, and spark meaningful conversations.
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Beyond Curiosity
Explore the City with Gaussian Splatting
Beyond Curiosity is a participatory virtual tour of UNESCO City of Media Arts Linz that employs cutting-edge 3D Gaussian Splatting. The key highlight: visitors and residents of Linz can utilize the technology to explore the city in a new way and share their perspectives with the world.
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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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Collective Transformation Lab
Engaging Strategies for Social Challenges
“Think slow, act fast” is the mantra of the Collective Transformation Lab – an enlightening self-reflection platform established as a collaboration between tech start-up Godot and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Playing Anton
3D Immersion into Bruckner’s 9th Symphony
What makes up the gigantic, imposing sound of a Bruckner symphony? Visitors explore the question playfully and interactively with Playing Anton – an innovative application for the Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center, developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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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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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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Art Thinking Lounge 2024
Hands-on Transformation through Art
The Art Thinking Lounge is an engaging space for those new to Art Thinking – a methodology that encourages creativity, innovation, and dialog. Debuted at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024, visitors were invited to explore and apply Art Thinking through hands-on exercises, discussions, artworks, and prototypes.