Roland Haring

  • Future Teams

    Future Teams

    Communicative Robots for the Workplace

    The Future Teams project aims to develop innovative technologies, spaces, and services that enhance team creativity and foster mutual care in the workplace. Prototypes include three buddy robots with communication skills aimed at enriching future teamwork.

  • AT&S Erlebniswelt

    AT&S Erlebniswelt

    Connect via Interactive Nervous System

    Based in Austria, AT&S is a leading supplier of high-end printed circuit boards and substrates for the semiconductor industry. The company invited the Ars Electronica Futurelab to contribute to the design of the new headquarters – including the installation of an interactive “Nervous System”.

  • Anatomy of Nudging

    Anatomy of Nudging

    Transparent AI for Society

    The installation Anatomy of Nudging aims to involve users in the utilization of artificial intelligence and thus create a trusting relationship with AI. Anatomy of Nudging was the first installation of the Collective Transformation Lab – an enlightening self-reflection platform by the Japanese AI start-up Godot and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

  • Media Spaces & Generative Art

    Media Spaces & Generative Art

    Art by University Students in Deep Space 8K

    2023 marked the 10th anniversary of students of FH OÖ (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria) Hagenberg Campus working together with the Ars Electronica Futurelab on semester projects in which they creatively explore their approaches to interactive and generative arts.

  • Digital Graffiti

    Digital Graffiti

    First-Ever Electronic Post-Its

    Digital Graffiti is an innovative technology platform that was developed starting in 2001. A world-first, it allowed virtual information like text, images, sounds, videos, or even program code to be left like electronic post-its in any location. Digital Graffiti utilized mobile devices such as PDAs (personal digital assistants), notebooks, and later smartphones to retrieve messages…

  • Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Ars Electronica’s Most Exciting Experience Space

    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.

  • Welcome to Planet B

    Welcome to Planet B

    Playable Climate Futures in Deep Space 8K

    E-vehicle or public transport? Nuclear power or renewable energy? Lab meat or vegan diet? The climate crisis challenges us with questions to which there are no easy answers. Important decisions await, and every action we take today has implications far into the future. Wouldn’t it be helpful to test our choices in virtual reality to…

  • Futurelab Day 2022

    Futurelab Day 2022

    Creative Resilience @ Ars Electronica Festival

    In 2022, the Ars Electronica Futurelab once again organized a special “Open Futurelab” program for the general public during the Ars Electronica Festival: Futurelab Day on September 8, themed “Creative Resilience for a Planet B.”

  • Play the Façade

    Play the Façade

    38,500 LEDs to Spark Public Creativity

    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 public was able to take control of the illuminated museum exterior for the first time via the façade terminal. This was followed in 2022 by the new edition – with…

  • AI5production

    AI5production

    Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

    Ars Electronica Futurelab, Ars Electronica Festival and the Ars Electronica Center’s Future Thinking School are part of a large-scale pilot project involving more than a dozen Austrian research institutions: AI5production supports manufacturing companies in Austria in matters of digital transformation.

  • JKU medSPACE

    JKU medSPACE

    Pioneering Venue for Anatomy Lectures

    The JKU medSPACE is a completely new, worldwide unique venue for teaching anatomy, located at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. Developed and implemented by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the JKU medSPACE shows anatomy like never before, in quadruple stereoscopic 3D 8K projection at 14×7 meters: Lecturers and students dive into larger than life, photorealistic…

  • Alchemists of the Future

    Alchemists of the Future

    25 years of Ars Electronica Futurelab

    In 2021, the Ars Electronica Futurelab celebrated its 25th anniversary. Under the heading Alchemists of the Future, the Open Futurelab therefor presented a look back at the lab’s challenges and successes, but most importantly its latest ideas and glimpes into the future.