Research

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.

Inside Futurelab: Behind the scenes of the virtual nativity scene

Inside Futurelab offers an overview of the project and technical insights into how the digitization of one of the world’s largest nativity scenes was achieved.

Inside Futurelab: Ricercar

Futurelab Key Researcher & Artist Ali Nikrang presents the project Ricercar, an interactive AI-based music composition system.

Inside Futurelab: Algorithmic Apperception

With Inside Futurelab, artist, producer and key researcher Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer will be speaking on the topic of Poetic Systems, which is the field of his artistic research in the context of art and architecture within the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Inside Futurelab: Algorithmic Apperception

Physical space is something merely exclusively entitled to humans. It is where we walk, explore, engage with others. How we utilize space, how we interact, where we stand transports a lot about feelings, mood, intimacy. Algorithmic Apperception investigates ways to admit artificial systems into this space. It is the ambition to enable machines to not only sense their environment but make sense of it.

Inside Futurelab: Digital Resonance

Digital Resonance is research exploring new ways of communication with yourself, others, society, and the environment through digital technology.

Inside Futurelab: Zen Machine

Can a machine, which is traditionally intended to execute functional or repetitive tasks, fulfil the role of monk and maintain a Zen garden, or is spirituality reserved solely for humans?

Inside Futurelab: Our Social Forest – Non-verbal communions in the era of social distancing

With the corona virus in full swing, and the ensuing guidelines for social distancing, people have flocked to new technologies in order to keep communicating verbally and visually. However, video calls and social media still feel inadequate when it comes to conveying the complexity and intricacies of human communication. What's missing?

Inside Futurelab: Immersify (The translucent St. Stephen’s Cathedral)

With more than 20 billion laser points the cathedral church of St. Stephen in Vienna was measured. In this unique level of detail they correspond to a data volume of almost 400 gigabytes and form the basis of the translucent St. Stephen's Cathedral.

Inside Futurelab: Immersify (The Great Pyramid in 3D)

The Great Pyramid in 3D, From the BBC Series Ancient Invisible Cities explores the possibilities of virtual archaeology by scanning and digitally displaying historical architecture - in this case the Pyramid of Cheops in Giza.

Inside Futurelab: Immersify (8K Live Streaming)

In September 2019, during the Ars Electronica Festival, real-time transmission of 8K content in the immersive environment of Deep Space 8K succeeded for the first time. In collaboration with PSNC, there will now once again be an 8K live stream from Poznan in Poland to Deep Space 8K.

Ars Electronica Mix: Inside Futurelab

Matthew Gardiner, researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, focuses his research on "Folding as a Programming Strategy for Materials".

Ars Electronica Mix: Inside Futurelab

AI meets Music

At "Ars Electronica Mix LIVE: Inside Futurelab" you can take a live look behind the scenes at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. In this issue, Ali Nikrang, artist and scientist at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, talks about whether Artificial Intelligence can be creative.

Ars Electronica Mix: Inside Futurelab

At "Ars Electronica Mix LIVE: Inside Futurelab" you can take a live look behind the scenes at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.