Inside Futurelab: “Future Picnic” for a positive society

After a year of distance, how do you reconnect people of a huge cities with each other, but also with nature? Of course – with a picnic in nature.

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode Eight – The Alchemists of the Future

Meet the Future Alchemists behind the innovative concepts and remarkable success of the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode Seven – Art Thinking

Artist and Key Researcher Kyoko Kunoh demonstrates a wide variety of ways to develop and advance innovations at the boundary between art and technology in the Futurelab.

Inside Futurelab: Directors Talk – 25 years Ars Electronica Futurelab and beyond

How can developers, technology companies and artists, but also society as a whole, contribute to a positive future? These questions and more are explored in the new "Inside Futurelab" video with the Futurelab Directors!

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode Six – The Art Of Swarms

Key Researcher and Artist Peter Holzkorn sets out on the trail of the hidden structure behind this network of systems and reveals a wide range of possibilities for using them in the future for innovations at the boundary between art and technology.

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode Five – Computation & Beyond

How can we inspire people to actively and collectively design our future? Find out in this episode!

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode Four – Humanity & Robotinity

What are the differences between machines and human beings? And how will the future of humanity look like together with bots?

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode Three – Creative (Artificial) Intelligence

With the question "Can artificial intelligence be creative?", artist and key researcher Ali Nikrang goes on the trail of the latest research on artificial intelligence and creativity.

Inside Futurelab: Open Futurelab 2020

Open Futurelab 2020 provided visitors a diverse range of possibilities for participation. In this retrospective, we have highlighted the best moments.

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode Two – Poetic Systems

Artist and Key Researcher Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer embarks on a research for the poetic moment within the natural and artificially generated systems surrounding us.

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode One – Virtual Worlds

In Deep Space, Roland Haring and Johannes Lugstein show new perspectives on virtual environments and insights into the DNA of the Futurelab.

Inside Futurelab: Cypress Trees, A Beginning – guest presentation by Anna Ridler & Caroline Sinders

Caroline Sinders and Anna Ridler will speak about their artistic-scientific research this year in the context of an AILab residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Inside Futurelab: Beyond the Frame – Living Numbers – NHK

Living numbers is an edutainment program for children which uses life-size animations to bring life to numbers through playful relations and comparisons in the world of animals.

Inside Futurelab: NHK meets Ars Electronica Futurelab – Resonant Media

What possibilities can 8K technology bring? The collaboration between Ars Electronica Futurelab and NHK explores the next generation of media technologies.

Inside Futurelab: NHK meets Ars Electronica Futurelab – past and present research

What possibilities can 8K technology bring into everyday media? The collaboration between Ars Electronica Futurelab and NHK explores the next generation of media technologies.

Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode Zero

Horst Hörtner, Susanne Kiesenhofer and Andreas J. Hirsch discuss the 25th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Futurelab and give insights into the research and projects.

Inside Futurelab: Meta Sketching – guest presentation by Mike Jelinek

With his guest presentation artist and designer Mike Jelinek explores all the sketching and design process' meta-aspects.

Inside Futurelab: Art Thinking Tour at Ars Electronica Center

Art Thinking is the process of applying artistic ways of thinking and an artistic point of view to a wide range of challenges. How can we utilize the power of the art to shape society?

Inside Futurelab: Spotless

Spotless is an AR-based social interface that allows users to use any object as associative communication channel.

Inside Futurelab: Deepandemia

An interactive simulation of infection chains as an impressive example of how social cooperation and individual actions can change the world for good or for bad during a pandemic.