Kerstin Blätterbinder
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Open Futurelab 2025
Participate @ Ars Electronica Festival
At the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 from September 3 to 7, 2025, in Linz, Austria, the Futurelab invites you to back to the Open Futurelab, Deep Space 8K, and the popular Futurelab Night. Festival visitors experience the lab’s latest works and can also actively participate in its research.
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Claesz Unveiled
Digital Exploration Interface for Artworks
Delicate textures and intricate elements that would otherwise remain imperceptible: a new digital exploration interface uncovers the details of Pieter Claesz’s still lifes – presented at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Universalmuseum Joanneum, and Kunst Museum Winterthur.
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Alter.Ego
How Do AI Personalities Influence Us?
Flashing lights, whirring motors and cheerful chimes – visitors to the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 encounter an unusual interaction partner in the Open Futurelab: a claw machine. Yet this is no ordinary arcade game. Instead of controlling a joystick to win a prize, players must engage in dialogue with one of its shifting AI personalities…
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Beyond Curiosity
Explore the City with Gaussian Splatting
Beyond Curiosity is a participatory virtual tour of UNESCO City of Media Arts Linz that employs cutting-edge 3D Gaussian Splatting. The key highlight: visitors and residents of Linz can utilize the technology to explore the city in a new way and share their perspectives with the world.
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Pillars of Democracy
Interactive Installation at Vienna’s Parliament
Pillars of Democracy is a playful interactive installation aimed to increase civic participation and enhance awareness of the importance of democracy. The artistic intervention on the pillars of the Parliament building in Vienna invited people to express themselves, reflect, and take a stand on democracy. The goal was to establish an emotional and personal connection…
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Open Futurelab 2024
Shaping HOPE @ 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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Collective Transformation Lab
Engaging Strategies for Social Challenges
“Think slow, act fast” is the mantra of the Collective Transformation Lab – an enlightening self-reflection platform established as a collaboration between tech start-up Godot and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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NeXus Open Research
Extended Reality and the Future of Print
NeXus Open Research explores future Extended Reality (XR) technologies, using scenario-based design to dive into the future of print. It envisions applications through detailed narratives, focusing on XR technologies at the nexus of co-creation.
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Buzz Swatters
Playful Pandemic Prevention
Buzzing noises, an inconspicuous window, tropical humidity, and the impression of being chased: Buzz Swatters: Playful Pandemic Prevention addresses the collective action problem of infectious diseases in an innovative and playful way.
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Mariendom digital
Zooming In on Cultural Heritage
The New Cathedral (Mariendom) in Linz celebrated its centenary in 2024 with a large-scale digitization project and a new visitor center including a multimedia exhibition. Here, digitally enhanced showcases for sacred objects and gigapixel images of the cathedral windows await visitors, who can even populate the cathedral digitally with their portraits.
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FOUNDING LAB Fall Term
New Formats for Future Universities
The FOUNDING LAB Fall Term is a continuation of the FOUNDING LAB collaboration between Austrian university IT:U and Ars Electronica, spanning September 2023 to January 2024. IT:U started its operation in 2023 with the FOUNDING LAB, supported by experts of Ars Electronica including a team of Ars Electronica Futurelab members.
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missimo
Mobile STEAM Learning for Kids
missimo is a project for children aged eight to ten that offers many experiments on topics such as AI, robotics, and programming. The special appeal: missimo visits primary schools in Austria’s rural areas by truck.