Otto Naderer

  • Rotax MAX Dome

    Rotax MAX Dome

    In collaboration with BRP Rotax, the Ars Electronica Futurelab created an experience of the latest technologies in the field of digital gaming worlds and analog machine technology. In the Rotax MAX Dome, opened in 2019, visitors can test the engine manufacturer’s new e-karts on a sophisticated racetrack, race through virtual worlds and experience specially developed…

  • swarmOS

    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.

  • pinocchio

    pinocchio

    Two industrial robots play the role of two marionettes. The motions of a human puppeteer were recorded and are copied by the two robot arms. What happens when we are able to digitalize and therefore replicate highly complicated human abilities such as puppetry?

  • Swarm Compass

    Swarm Compass

    Japanese telecommunications giant NTT and the Ars Electronica Futurelab have been working together since 2017 on how to use drones—aka unmanned aerial vehicles—as a means of communication. The Sky Compass project laid the groundwork in 2017; now, Swarm Compass takes this initiative to the next level.

  • Augmented Humanity @SAP Pavilion

    Augmented Humanity @SAP Pavilion

    In 2012, Europe’s largest software manufacturer SAP commissioned the Ars Electronica Futurelab with a representative work on the 40th anniversary of the former start-up. The exhibition format “40 – years of Future” was specially developed for the planned company museum in order to communicate the company’s history and key inventions to the general public.

  • Open Futurelab 2018

    Open Futurelab 2018

    Following an extended period of integrating contributions from the Ars Electronica Futurelab at various festival settings, the 2018 Open Futurelab initiative in the POSTCITY was intended to create a key interface for the lab’s creative international network.

  • 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…

  • Sky Compass

    Sky Compass

    A collaboration between Japanese telecommunications giant NTT and the Ars Electronica Futurelab, Sky Compass is the first step towards a vision of employing drones (or UAVs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in public signage, guidance and the facilitation of traffic.

  • MANUACT

    MANUACT

    How can gesture research be presented so that it is comprehensible by everyone? How do you identify natural gestures for specific applications? What are the origins of such gestures, and how can they best be used in future interfaces? The Ars Electronica Futurelab has been collaborating with Chemnitz University of Technology to get to 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…

  • Cinematic Anatomy x Deep Space

    Cinematic Anatomy x Deep Space

    Photorealistic Anatomy Larger Than Life in 3D

    The multi-award-winning Cinematic Anatomy x Deep Space merges MRI and CTR data of real patients into photorealistic three-dimensional images of human anatomy. Organs, blood vessels, muscles, tendon, and more can be viewed larger than life as three-dimensional, razor-sharp objects from all angles.

  • 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.