Susanne Kiesenhofer

  • Open Futurelab 2024

    Open Futurelab 2024

    Ars Electronica Festival

    We at the Ars Electronica Futurelab understand HOPE – motto of the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 – as a process that can be shaped through art and active participation. We therefore invited everyone to shape HOPE together: from September 4 to 8, 2024, at the Open Futurelab in POSTCITY at the Ars Electronica Festival.

  • Walzersymphonie

    Walzersymphonie

    The year 2025 marks the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss Jr. – a composer who shaped the history of music with works such as the Danube Waltz and operettas like “Die Fledermaus” (The Bat) and “Eine Nacht in Venedig” (A Night in Venice). On behalf of Johann Strauss Festjahr 2025 Wien, the Ars Electronica Futurelab…

  • Northeastern University 2023

    Northeastern University 2023

    Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy

    In the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy, we challenge the creativity of students in workshops, seminars and project-focused mentoring sessions. For the students, the hands-on approach of the Futurelab, paired with the potential and exposure of the Ars Electronica ecosystem, is a unique opportunity to develop their ideas and skills; for us Futurelab researchers, the dialogue…

  • Coral Bike

    Coral Bike

    NHM on tour

    The Coral Bike is a mobile workshop by the Natural History Museum Vienna that focuses on the importance of and threats to marine forests. The e-bike makes stops in urban parks, where it becomes a mobile learning space for 5th to 8th grade classes: with hands-on science.

  • Open Futurelab 2023

    Open Futurelab 2023

    Reaching out to one another, spreading hope in trying times and literally grasping technology as a social tool for the futures: this is what the Open Futurelab as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2023, from September 6 to 10, was all about. In POSTCITY and Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center, the…

  • missimo

    missimo

    In 2018, the Kaiserschild Stiftung, a charitable private foundation, approached the Ars Electronica Futurelab to support the realization of their goal to offer primary school children in rural areas of Austria a hands-on learning experience on STE(A)M topics – science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Their idea of developing a mobile learning and dissemination concept…

  • Anatomy of Nudging

    Anatomy of Nudging

    Collective Transformation Lab

    Think slow, act fast. This is the mantra of the Collective Transformation Lab – an enlightening self-reflection platform established as a collaboration between Godot, a Japan-based start-up company focusing on AI technology that inspires behavior change in human beings, and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

  • Deep Sync

    Deep Sync

    Deep Sync creates an interactive playground for sound and visuals in the immersive Deep Space 8K environment, inviting visitors to experiment with the correlation between psychological and physiological processes.

  • 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…

  • Futurelab Day 2022

    Futurelab Day 2022

    Creative Resilience for a Planet B

    In 2022, the Ars Electronica Futurelab once again organized a special “Open Futurelab” program for the general public during the Ars Electronica Festival: The Futurelab Day on September 8, featuring high-level discussions, presentations of the lab’s latest projects, a wide variety of workshops and electrifying artistic performances. The day was themed “Creative Resilience for a…

  • Welcome to Planet B

    Welcome to Planet B

    A children’s pop-up book about climate change

    Entirely analog and easy to grasp even for little hands: the new Deep Space 8K application Welcome to Planet B was brought to a child-friendly format for 8- to 12-year-olds in 2022 as part of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s creative contest Ideas Expedition. The interactive pop-up book is designed to get kids excited about climate…

  • Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION

    Three visually stunning dimensions, 33 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. Deep Space EVOLUTION brings several new programs to the public in 2022, as well as…