Hideaki Ogawa
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Open Futurelab 2020
The Open Futurelab already planned for 2020 was redesigned into a major experiment due to the Covid pandemic – intended to create a hybrid interaction space that confronted the difficulties of social distance as well as the opportunities presented by telepresence. For not only the lab itself, but the entire festival was challenged by the…
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Art Thinking Initiative
Ars Electronica x Hakuhodo
Art Thinking Initiative (ATI) is a joint consulting program between Hakuhodo and Ars Electronica Futurelab to incorporate the method of Art Thinking into the management and R&D of companies, research institutions, and government organizations. Hakuhodo is a leading communication design and marketing solutions company in Japan with its core philosophy centered on People Thinking. Since…
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Garden of Creativity
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2020
From November 21st to 22nd 2020, the Ars Electronica Futurelab contributed to the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo, Japan, for the third time – on the theme of “Garden of Creativity”.
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Artistic Journalism 2020
Keio University SFC Online Course
Ars Electronica Futurelab director Hideaki Ogawa taught an online course entitled “Artistic Journalism” at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus). This experimental series of classes discusses artistic journalism through online lectures, online guided tours and dialogues with the Ars Electronica Center.
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School of the Future Festival 2020: Dappi
The School of the Future Festival 2020—a cooperation between Ars Electronica and TOKYO MIDTOWN—took place from February 20th to February 24th 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Artistic Journalism
Artistic journalism is the act of creating a social dialogue through artistic expression, research, exploration, and action. To engage students in this method, Ars Electronica Futurelab co-director Hideaki Ogawa has been teaching “Artistic Journalism” online courses at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus).
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Open Futurelab 2019
The festival site at POSTCITY in Linz was used as a stage for Open Futurelab until 2019. Created with the Japanese public broadcasting company NHK, Media Platz was a prototype of an open media plaza consisting of cardboard and high-resolution screens, which was used as a forum for public debate. Various panel discussions took place…
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Future Citizen
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2019
From November 16th to 17th 2019, the Ars Electronica Futurelab contributed to the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo, Japan, for the second time – with an “Ars Electronica Salon” on the theme of “Future Citizen”.
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Swarm Arena @Miraikan
In the beginning, there was a shared research interest: How can swarm-based technology be embedded in everyday media use and what new possibilities of communication or artistic expression does it offer as a visual medium? The Japanese telecommunications company NTT and the Ars Electronica Futurelab have been investigating these questions since 2017 and have repeatedly…
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School of the Future Festival 2019: GiriGiri
With School of the Future, the Ars Electronica Futurelab has been bringing discussions about technology, society and art into the heart of Tokyo since 2017. In a series of exhibitions and discussion rounds within the Tokyo Midtown urban complex, visitors are invited to explore the impact technologies have on society – and vice versa. In…
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swarmOS
swarmOS is a powerful operating system to control large-scale swarms of UAVs (flying drones) as well as UGVs (drones that drive on the ground), invented and constantly expanded by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Beyond the Frame – 8K Future Projects
Since 2018, together with Japan’s largest public broadcaster NHK, the Ars Electronica Futurelab has been pursuing questions about the future of the next generation of 8K ultra-high definition TV technology. As early as 2016, NHK began producing 8K material, developing recording and playback technology, and launched the first 8K single channel, making it one of…