Media Art

  • ZeitRaum

    ZeitRaum

    ZeitRaum (โ€œTimeSpaceโ€) 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 Faรงade Terminal

    Ars Electronica Center Faรงade Terminal

    The โ€œFassadenterminalโ€ (faรงade terminal) was developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and presented to the public in 2010: It enabled artistic use of the Ars Electronica Centerโ€™s media faรงade, that is equipped with 38,500 LEDs.

  • (St)Age of Participation

    (St)Age of Participation

    Between 2011 and 2015, under the scientific direction of Christopher Lindinger, the Ars Electronica Futurelab and media artist, choreographer and composer Klaus Obermaier have been jointly investigating innovative forms of audience involvement in stage-based media art.

  • Shadowgram

    Shadowgram

    Shadowgram is an interactive project by the Ars Electronica Futurelab that combines creative expression with social participation: Users’ shadows are transformed into physical stickers that they can place in shared spaces, sparking societal dialogue.ย 

  • Il mondo della luna

    Il mondo della luna

    โ€œIl mondo della luna โ€“ The World in the moonโ€ by Joseph Haydn at the 2009 international Bruckner Festival โ€œIl mondo della lunaโ€ has been performed in the Brucknerhaus by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under conductor Martin Sieghart.

  • 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 Centerโ€™s 5,100-m2 glass shell. Every one of the faรงadeโ€™s 1,100 glass panels thus becomes what amounts to a pixel that can be individually controlled.

  • Mahlerโ€™s Resurrection Symphony Visionized

    Mahlerโ€™s Resurrection Symphony Visionized

    As a follow-up to their โ€œDas Rheingold โ€“ Visionizedโ€ pilot project, the Ars Electronica Futurelab again collaborated with artist Johannes Deutsch on a performance of Gustav Mahlerโ€™s Symphony Nr. 2 in C minor as an interactive visualization in three-dimensional space.

  • Le Sacre du Printemps

    Le Sacre du Printemps

    Following the successful virtual staging of Richard Wagnerโ€™s Das Rheingold (2004) and Gustav Mahlerโ€™s Symphony Nr. 2 in C Minor (2006), the series of projects was carried on by a collaborative effort of Ars Electronica Futurelab and the Brucknerfest with a performance of Le Sacre du Printemps (โ€œThe Rite of Springโ€).

  • Das Rheingold – Visionized

    Das Rheingold – Visionized

    On September 26th and 28th, 2004, a concert performance of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz took place in the Great Hall of the Brucknerhaus Linz with an interactive 3D visualization by Johannes Deutsch and Ars Electronica Futurelab.

  • Apparition by Klaus Obermaier

    Apparition by Klaus Obermaier

    With cutting edge creative technology developers, Apparition was a compelling dance and media performance for the stage that successfully integrated interactive sensor and tracking technology in innovative ways to give the dancer the possibility to interact with and control the image and the musical environment. A new project of the award winning composer and media…