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Open Futurelab 2023
Social Technology @ Ars Electronica Festival
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.
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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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Welcome to Planet B
A Children’s Pop-Up Book About Climate Change
The Futurelab application Welcome to Planet B brings climate decisions to Deep Space 8K. To translate the project to a child-friendly format for 8- to 12-year-olds, a team at the lab created a matching interactive pop-up book. It is designed to get kids excited about climate protection and to marvel, grasp and understand – and,…
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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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Stream of Hope
Large-Scale Fluxel Performance in Japan
Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Fluxels, a scalable swarm of ground robots equipped with hexagonal LED displays, brought about a new language of visual expression. Stream of Hope in Osaka and Yokohama showcased their versatility at large-scale events.
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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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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…
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Swarm Arena @Miraikan
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…