Media Architecture

  • AT&S Erlebniswelt

    AT&S Erlebniswelt

    AT&S is a leading supplier of high-end printed circuit boards and substrates for the semiconductor industry based in Austria. The Ars Electronica Futurelab was invited to contribute to the design of the AT&S Erlebniswelt (AT&S World of Experience) in Leoben-Hinterberg – a new hybrid production and office building that also houses a visitor center. To…

  • Play the Façade

    Play the Façade

    The façade of the Ars Electronica Center, with its 38,500 LEDs, has been shaping the cityscape of Linz since 2009. Just one year later, the “sprucing up” of this landmark turned into something bigger, something innovative: with the façade terminal, the Ars Electronica Futurelab transformed the static museum shell into a designable medium for the…

  • insight | out

    insight | out

    insight | out, a work of media art by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, is a portrait of Oberbank AG Linz rendered on a fragmented frieze made up of eight video screens. The medium itself thus evokes the multiplicity of influences that flow into this portrait – the values that this long-established financial institution represents, the…

  • SAP Data Kitchen

    SAP Data Kitchen

    The Ars Electronica Futurelab assisted SAP in designing a meeting place for innovative start-ups based on the model of the Hana Café in Palo Alto. The so-called Data Space, which would take shape at Rosenthalerstraße 38 in the center of Berlin, features two storeys of which the first floor is composed of an event space…

  • Building Bridges

    Building Bridges

    The Bridge is one of the main passageways connecting two building complexes on the SAP Walldorf campus and it is host to the interactive music piece Building Bridges, jointly composed with Vienna-based composer Rupert Huber. Translating the movements of the pedestrians through a compositional algorithm, The Bridge serves as stage and instrument at the same time.

  • Vedaport / Monolith

    Vedaport / Monolith

    The six meter tall Monolith – completed in spring 2014 – consists of 24 frameless screens, wrapped in translucent mirror panels. These panels render the Monolith almost invisible at first glance and enhance it.

  • ZeitRaum

    ZeitRaum

    ZeitRaum (“TimeSpace”) is an interactive art installation the Ars Electronica Futurelab designed for the new terminal at Vienna International Airport. It creates real-time interpretations of arriving and departing flights.

  • Ars Electronica Center Façade Terminal

    Ars Electronica Center Façade Terminal

    The “Fassadenterminal” (façade terminal) was developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and presented to the public in 2010: It enabled artistic use of the Ars Electronica Center’s media façade, that is equipped with 38,500 LEDs.

  • Ars Electronica Center Media Facade

    Ars Electronica Center Media Facade

    Since January 2009, the Ars Electronica Center has been shining night after night. 38,500 LEDs are built into the Ars Electronica Center’s 5,100-m2 glass shell. Every one of the façade’s 1,100 glass panels thus becomes what amounts to a pixel that can be individually controlled.

  • Source.Code

    Source.Code

    SAP, as an enterprise that configures and provides an organizational setting for abstract business processes, is Source.Code’s point of departure.

  • UnitM

    UnitM

    The Ars Electronica Center was commissioned to carry out the “unit M” project by the Austrian Institute for Economic Promotion (WIFI) in Linz.