Manuel Dobusch
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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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Space Ink
Three-Dimensional Drawings With Drones
What if we can draw in any space with a pen? This question is at the heart of Space Ink, where tablets and drones are brought together to create large-scale works in three-dimensional space using light and color.
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Hybrid Space
Interactive Telepresence Museum Experience
Hybrid Space was an installation by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, presented as part of the lab’s 25-years anniversary in 2021. It provided an interactive space in the Ars Electronica Center where museum visitors could meet and interact with online visitors.
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Magellan Robot
On the 6th of March 1521 a small fleet of Spanish ships under the command of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Island of Guam in the Pacific. They were greeted by curious natives, the Chamorro. Some of them came aboard and started to look around. They began to evaluate the many useful items…
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OutReach
Physical Interaction for Telepresence Robots
OutReach is a solution that plays to the strengths of telepresence robots. By adding remotely controlled actuators to light switches, elevator buttons, or any other controls in a given environment, OutReach provides a way of interaction with the remote surroundings.
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Future Ink
In Creativity, Where Is My Soul?
The Future Ink Project is a research project to explore the future of creativity from all aspects of ink. Various prototypes were developed in the course of Future Ink, from using tablets and drones to paint to visualizing brainwaves and body signals as immersive three-dimensional ink.
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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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CoBot Studio
As humans and robots work together ever more closely, their joint success is linked to certain preconditions: How do you create safe working environments? How can we increase the acceptance of robots in everyday work? And how do you communicate with a colleague who consists only of a gripper arm?
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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…
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swarmOS
swarmOS is a powerful operating system to control large-scale swarms of UAVs (flying drones) as well as UGVs (drones that drive on the ground), invented and constantly expanded by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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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.
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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.