Hideaki Ogawa

  • Future Innovators Summit

    Future Innovators Summit

    The Future Innovators Summit (FIS) is an intercultural workshop format which was initiated in 2014 and has developed until 2019 into the key think-tank program during the Ars Electronica Festival. At this summit, experienced professionals as well as young entrepreneurs and social activists, technicians and scientists, and of course artists and designers, met at the…

  • Future Catalysts

    Future Catalysts

    In 2014, Ars Electronica launched the collaborative project Future Catalysts together with Japan’s premier advertising agency Hakuhodo. The project views artists and people with artistic perspectives as “catalysts for the future”.

  • Pixelspaces

    Pixelspaces

    Pixelspaces was an annual conference that the Ars Electronica Futurelab staged between 2001 and 2013. It was succeeded in 2018 by the Open Futurelab, an annual glimpse behind the scenes of the Ars Electronica Futurelab that continues to this day.

  • Spaxels

    Spaxels

    Drone shows and swarm art performances

    In September 2012, a new medium for physical-visual expression was born along the banks of the river Danube in Linz: The world’s first large-scale outdoor formation drone flight illuminated the night sky as part and centerpiece of the open-air music festival Klangwolke.

  • Klangwolken ABC

    Klangwolken ABC

    The Klangwolken ABC was initiated as a social participation project, focusing on “character” in the age of networks, constituting one of the core programs at the voestalpine Klangwolke 2012. The audience was invited to design their own characters that could interact with the radio frequencies of the event – resulting in a huge galaxy of…

  • ZeitRaum

    ZeitRaum

    ZeitRaum (“TimeSpace”) is an interactive art installation the Ars Electronica Futurelab designed for the new terminal at Vienna International Airport. It creates real-time interpretations of arriving and departing flights.

  • Shadowgram

    Shadowgram

    Shadowgram is an interactive project by the Ars Electronica Futurelab that combines creative expression with social participation: Users’ shadows are transformed into physical stickers that they can place in shared spaces, sparking societal dialogue. 

  • Human Robot Harmony

    Human Robot Harmony

    Research with Humanoid Robot Honda ASIMO

    The Ars Electronica Futurelab and Honda R&D worked together to research the next generation of the relationship between humans and robots – with the humanoid robot Honda ASIMO at the center.

  • FabLab

    FabLab

    The heart piece of the first main exhibition “New Views of Humankind” in 2009 was constituted by four public accessible labs.

  • RoboLab

    RoboLab

    The heart piece of the first main exhibition “New Views of Humankind” in 2009 was constituted by four public accessible labs.

  • Geminoid Research Collaboration

    Geminoid Research Collaboration

    How can a person’s unique personality and essential character traits be captured, simulated and imparted to a robot?