Maria Pfeifer
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Melt This!
Radical Dialog on Glacial Melting
Schmilz, schmilz, Baby! / Melt This! is a thought-provoking campaign on glacier retreat by the activist artist group Aggro Climate, members of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The initiative is one of the two winning projects of the Ars Electronica Futurelab 2024 internal ideas competition Ideas Expedition.
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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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Memories for Futures
Participative Installation for Rural Life
Memories for Futures is a multi-modal media arts installation designed to foster care and discussion about rural life’s future. Local stories, places and impressions from the village of Azusakawachi in the Japanese prefecture of Shiga are linked here to provide insights into the lives of the inhabitants and their very personal history.
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Public Pixels
Northeastern University 2024
July 2024 marked the fourth time the Ars Electronica Futurelab welcomed an interdisciplinary group of students from Northeastern University in Boston. Over a tightly packed three-day period, the students were once again tasked with creating media art projects for the Ars Electronica Center’s programmable media facade – showcasing how collaboration can transform a public space…
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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.
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Bridge 2040
Intergenerational Game for Future Stories
Bridge 2040 is a card game in which children and senior citizens develop future narratives together, building a bridge between the generations. It has been expanded to be used in different settings such as innovation workshops and is now available in German, English, and Japanese.
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Futurelab Night Performances 2023
Futures Report @ Ars Electronica Festival
Just as in previous years, the Futurelab Night Performances were one of the highlights of the Ars Electronica Festival 2023. This “Artistic Futures Report”, delivered live on Saturday evening in the Deep Space 8K, was a great opportunity to experience the Futurelab’s multifaceted work in concentrated form and up close.
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Northeastern University 2023
Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy
In 2023, the Ars Electronica Futurelab hosted an interdisciplinary group from Northeastern University in Boston for the third time. With the help of lab members, the students created art projects for the programmable media façade of the Ars Electronica Center in three intensive days.
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Data Art & Science Project
Art Creates Meaning from Data
How can art create meaning from data? The Ars Electronica Futurelab, in collaboration with Toyota Coniq Alpha in Japan, is envisioning “Data Art & Science,” a new interdisciplinary field that incorporates artistic perspectives on future transformations based on data science.
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Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION
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.