Johannes Pöll
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Open Futurelab 2024
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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Open Futurelab 2023
Reaching out to one another, spreading hope in trying times and literally grasping technology as a social tool for the futures: this is what the Open Futurelab as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2023, from September 6 to 10, was all about. In POSTCITY and Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center, the…
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missimo
In 2018, the Kaiserschild Stiftung, a charitable private foundation, approached the Ars Electronica Futurelab to support the realization of their goal to offer primary school children in rural areas of Austria a hands-on learning experience on STE(A)M topics – science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Their idea of developing a mobile learning and dissemination concept…
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Faust VR
In autumn 2023, the theater world celebrated the 150th birthday of Max Reinhardt, one of the most famous German-speaking theater makers of the 20th century. The Salzburg Festival commemorated the theatrical magician by recreating one of his most famous projects: the acclaimed production of Goethe’s “Faust” (1933-1937) at the unique venue Felsenreitschule in Salzburg with…
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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.
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Futurelab Day 2022
Creative Resilience for a Planet B
In 2022, the Ars Electronica Futurelab once again organized a special “Open Futurelab” program for the general public during the Ars Electronica Festival: The Futurelab Day on September 8, featuring high-level discussions, presentations of the lab’s latest projects, a wide variety of workshops and electrifying artistic performances. The day was themed “Creative Resilience for a…
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Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION
Three visually stunning dimensions, 33 million pixels of resolution and a high-performance tracking system make Ars Electronica’s Deep Space 8K one of the world’s most exciting digital experience spaces – developed, built and continuously maintained by the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Deep Space EVOLUTION brings several new programs to the public in 2022, as well as…
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Welcome to Planet B
E-vehicle or public transport? Nuclear power or renewable energy? Lab meat or vegan diet? Urban living or shared rural home? The climate crisis currently challenges us with questions to which there are no easy answers. Alternative concepts await important decisions, and every action we take today has implications far into the future. Wouldn’t it be…
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Alchemists of the Future
In 2021, the Ars Electronica Futurelab celebrated its 25th anniversary. Under the heading Alchemists of the Future, the Open Futurelab therefor presented a look back at the lab’s challenges and successes, but most importantly its latest ideas and glimpes into the future.
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NHM Deck 50
Participative platform for science communication
With the aim of using Citizen Science to awaken the researcher’s instinct in visitors and to get the public more involved in the scientific processes in the museum, the Natural History Museum Vienna has developed a new platform for science communication together with the Ars Electronica Futurelab and INSEQ Design: In the new Deck 50,…
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Deep Virtual
Ars Electronica Futurelab’s video production system Deep Virtual is able to merge virtual into physical reality in real time and to transmit this hybrid reality instantly. With its development, the Lab has set a milestone in the history of Deep Space 8K : The idea for live hybrid video production takes the broadcasting of virtual…
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The Great Pyramid in 3D
The Great Pyramid in 3D, From the BBC Series Ancient Invisible Cities is an interactive immersive experience exploring the possibilities of virtual archaeology by scanning and digitally rebuilding historical architecture. With this program, visitors of the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K can virtually go deep inside the oldest wonder of the ancient world, the…