Johannes Pöll
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Media Spaces & Generative Art
Art by University Students in Deep Space 8K
2023 marked the 10th anniversary of students of FH OÖ (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria) Hagenberg Campus working together with the Ars Electronica Futurelab on semester projects in which they creatively explore their approaches to interactive and generative arts.
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Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION
Ars Electronica’s Most Exciting Experience Space
Three visually stunning dimensions, over 50 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.
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Welcome to Planet B
Playable Climate Futures in Deep Space 8K
E-vehicle or public transport? Nuclear power or renewable energy? Lab meat or vegan diet? The climate crisis challenges us with questions to which there are no easy answers. Important decisions await, and every action we take today has implications far into the future. Wouldn’t it be helpful to test our choices in virtual reality to…
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Futurelab Day 2022
Creative Resilience @ Ars Electronica Festival
In 2022, the Ars Electronica Futurelab once again organized a special “Open Futurelab” program for the general public during the Ars Electronica Festival: Futurelab Day on September 8, themed “Creative Resilience for a Planet B.”
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Alchemists of the Future
25 years of Ars Electronica Futurelab
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
Science Communication in the Museum
Deck 50 at Vienna’s Natural History Museum is a participatory platform for science communication. Here, visitors can actively explore different environmental and socially relevant topics with hands-on experiments – becoming “Citizen Scientists” in the process.
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Deep Virtual
Instant Hybrid Reality in Video Production
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 Translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral
Immersive Journey in Stereoscopic 8K
As part of the European R&D project Immersify, the data from spatial measurement of St. Stephen in Vienna with more than 21 billion laser points was converted into a translucent representation of the cathedral. The result is an innovative interactive and immersive journey through the building in stereoscopic 8K in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep…
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The Great Pyramid in 3D
Journey Through the World Wonder in 12K
The Great Pyramid in 3D, From the BBC Series Ancient Invisible Cities is an interactive immersive experience for the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K. Visitors can take a deep virtual dive inside the oldest wonder of the ancient world, the Great Pyramid of Giza. They are able to move interactively through the 360° 3D…
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NHM on tour
Interactive Museum E-Bike for Citizen Science
This innovative interactive museum e-bike offers a place for participation: The multimedia, mobile research station invites citizens and visitors from all social backgrounds to shape science and actively engage in social debates.
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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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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…