
Since 2014, Hakuhodo and Ars Electronica have collaborated in the joint project Future Catalysts. To further expand these activities, the two institutions launched a mission driven innovation community named โARS ELECTRONICA TOKYO Initiative (AETI).โ

“Resonant Media – Possibilities of 8K Visualization” took an artistic and scientific approach to explore the new possibilities of 8K from diverse perspectives. The exhibition in Tokyo in 2021 presented a diverse range of projects that explored the future of 8K beyond the existing frame.

The Future Ink Project is a research project to explore the future of creativity from all aspects of ink. Various prototypes were developed in the course of Future Ink, from using tablets and drones to paint to visualizing brainwaves and body signals as immersive three-dimensional ink.

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…

From November 21st to 22nd 2020, the Ars Electronica Futurelab contributed to the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo, Japan, for the third time โ on the theme of โGarden of Creativityโ.

Ars Electronica Futurelab director Hideaki Ogawa taught an online course entitled โArtistic Journalismโ 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.

The School of the Future Festival 2020โa cooperation between Ars Electronica and TOKYO MIDTOWNโtook place from February 20th to February 24th 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.

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 โArtistic Journalismโ online courses at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus).

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…

From November 16th to 17th 2019, the Ars Electronica Futurelab contributed to the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo, Japan, for the second time โ with an โArs Electronica Salonโ on the theme of โFuture Citizenโ.

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…