Yoko Shimizu
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Open Futurelab 2024
Shaping HOPE @ 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.
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NeXus Open Research
Extended Reality and the Future of Print
NeXus Open Research explores future Extended Reality (XR) technologies, using scenario-based design to dive into the future of print. It envisions applications through detailed narratives, focusing on XR technologies at the nexus of co-creation.
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City of Artists
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2024
The Matsudo International Science Art Festival is an annual celebration held in the beautiful city of Matsudo, Japan. In 2024, the festival’s theme was “City of Artists,” unlocking the creativity and inner artist in all of us.
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Open Futurelab 2023
Social Technology @ Ars Electronica Festival
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.
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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.
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Seeds of Hope
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2023
The Matsudo International Science Art Festival is a yearly celebration that takes place in the beautiful city of Matsudo in Japan. In 2023, the theme of the festival was “Seeds of Hope” – The topics ranged from the nature of truth to environmental protection.
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Art Thinking School
Embedding Creativity in Japanese Companies
With the Art Thinking School at Hakuhodo’s University of Creativity, Ars Electronica artists and researchers presented Inspiration Talks as well as a new workshop concept for companies to create tangible visions of the future.
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SonoSynthesis
Can Machines and Nature Co-Create Music?
In the new era of creative collaboration, can machines and nature co-create art and music? In the SonoSynthesis project, a team of researchers from the Ars Electronica Futurelab brought together AI, biology, and Deep Space technologies to develop an immersive audio and visual experience.
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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.”
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Life Ink
Human Creativity as Immersive 3D Ink
Can the human mind and body become a pen that generates ink to express our creativity? Life Ink explores the inner mechanism of creativity by visualizing brainwaves and body signals as immersive three-dimensional ink – lending color to our thoughts, feelings, and creative sparks.
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Circular Creativity
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2022
The Matsudo International Science Art Festival is a yearly celebration that takes place in the beautiful city of Matsudo in Japan. In 2022, the theme of the festival was “Circular Creativity”, exploring how we can all respectfully coexist with nature and people of different backgrounds on our one and only planet, Earth.
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Northeastern University 2022
Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy
In July 2022, students from Northeastern University (Boston, USA) joined the Futurelab for the second time for a three-day interactive art workshop. It focused on creating experiences for the Ars Electronica media facade – the glowing, colorful centerpiece of the city and second skin of the Ars Electronica Center.