Residency
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State of Play:شهر بازی
Anti-Colonial, Participative Art Performance
State of Play:شهر بازی by artists Tara Habibzadeh, Harriet Davey, and Mati Bratkowski, is a game-based participative art performance referencing the 7 Labors of Rostam in the long epic poem Shahnameh by Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Iran, 977–1010 CE). In it, up to 5 audience members reenact the final labour, controlling their avatars of Rostam in…
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Lingxiao Luo (CN): Behaving Knit
Lingxiao Luo is a knitwear designer, material researcher, and PhD student, committed to interdisciplinary work. During her one-month residency at Ars Electronica’s Futurelab in October 2023, she expanded upon the central themes of her PhD research, Behaving Knit: Exploring the Integrative Solution for Shape-changing Wearables by Knitting Technologies.
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Chiara Croci (IT): Ori Shelter
Chiara Croci is a Research Assistant at the Ars Electronica Futurelab working in Origami and Robotics research. She has a background in Industrial Design, and after finishing her studies at the University of Ferrara, she is now enrolled at the University of Johannesburg, completing her Masters within the Department of Industrial Design in the Faculty…
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Tom Bogaert (BE): Objection
The Artist in Residence 2023 at the Ars Electronica Futurelab was Tom Bogaert, who came to art after a career as a refugee worker with the United Nations and Amnesty International. His artistic practice is structured around in situ projects that examine the intersections of politics, entertainment, technology, art, and propaganda.
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Roel Heremans (BE): The NeuroRight Arcades
In 2022, the Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab was Roel Heremans. With his team, he developed The NeuroRight Arcades and presented the outcome at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022. Subsequently, a summary installation of the project was on display at the Ars Electronica Center.
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Fanny Zaman (BE): The Future is Coded
Residency in Cooperation with the Flemish Ministry of Culture, Youth and Media
The Flemish Ministry of Culture, Youth and Media launched a new subsidy in 2020 to support digital innovation and cooperation between the arts and research sectors. Artists, (digital) creators, game developers or researchers could apply for a stay in three foreign institutes working at the interface between art, culture, science and technology: Ars Electronica Futurelab,…
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SPARKS
Rethinking innovation together
Ars Electronica is part of SPARKS, an EU funded communication project that reaches out to all European countries. SPARKS is an engagement project on the topic of technology shifts in health, medicine and wellbeing. It aims to raise awareness and communicate the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) to citizens in all European countries.
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Connecting Cities
A European Network of Media Façades
Connecting Cities is a EU-funded culture project aiming at building a worldwide expanding network of media facades, urban screens and other digital projection sites. In contrast to their typically commercial usage, Connecting Cities supports the exchange of artistic or socially relevant contents.