Projects
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Hopetimist, Hesitant or Skeptic?
Ars Electronica Solutions
Hopetimist, Hesitant, or Skeptic is an interactive installation that navigates the complexities of human perception and cognition. Visitors are presented with three poetic statements that tap into the intricacies of being an optimist, pessimist, or realist in today’s fast-paced, tech-driven world. …..[erased]
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Egovatar
At this station, visitors can create imaginative depictions of themselves. The playfully and intuitively assembled “prompt” blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. The AI DALL-E generates several image drafts based on one’s own characteristics, creating a digital twin—an “Egovatar” that reflects one’s own facets.
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art-O-mat
Discover how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the art world. With the art-O-mat, creative processes become tangible and transcend traditional boundaries. Through machine learning and sophisticated algorithms, unique styles emerge that create new, small works of art and serve as an extension tool for artists in the creative process.
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DAS Logo
DAS research group (JP)
The DAS (Data Art & Science) Logo is a continuously changing piece based on the conditions of various locations. It incorporates data from 60 live cameras monitoring the rivers flowing into Lake Biwa.
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A Water Vein to the Futures
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT), DAS research group (JP)
Tomita Brewery has been brewing Japanese sake in Nagahama for approximately 460 years. To dissect its unique natural and cultural cycles, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is collaborating with the company.
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Future-Mobility Map
DAS research group
Shiga is centered around the vast Lake Biwa, leading to historically limited road transportation and ongoing traffic congestion issues. To address this unique challenge, could reviving ancient waterway transportation offer a solution?
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Data Anatomy of a Fisherman
DAS research group (JP)
To re-evaluate the profession of fishing and discover its value for the future, two students closely followed a fisherman. They edited navigation data, income information, biometric data such as heart rate, and other relevant information to sheld light on the life of a fisherman. This exhibition showcases their findings.
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Behave-Knit
Lingxiao Luo (CN)
Behave-Knit challenges conventional notions of fashion by proposing garments that are more than mere objects—they become entities with personalities, capable of interaction. This raises intriguing questions about the future of clothing and our relationship with what we wear. If our clothing could respond to us as living beings, how would our treatment and perception of…
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Gigantic Oribotic Spiral
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
We study the interplay between shells, spirals and their biological and latent social symbolism in the form of a large-scale rigid oribotic spiral sculpture and oribotic instruments. Our title reframes a quote from the seminal work On Growth and Form, in which Thompson posits that the mathematics of growth defines the shape of the shell…
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Climate Organ
Chris Bruckmayr (AT), Klaus Dieterstorfer (AT), Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT), Rupert Huber (AT)
Climate is not only a meteorological component, but there is also a social climate. This climate is a bit affected at the moment, maybe even “bad”— there is a hidden stench of suppressed emotions and worries, which we are going to clean at least locally with a climate organ.
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From Green to Red
Beatie Wolfe (GB)
From Green to Red by art rebel Beatie Wolfe is a stirring environmental protest piece about human impact on the planet, built using 800,000 years of NASA’s historic CO2 data. Taken from the title of a song Wolfe wrote in 2006 after seeing An Inconvenient Truth, this award-winning project has been presented at the Nobel…
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EXPANDED PLAY—EXHIBITION OF PLAYFUL MEDIA
Curated by Michael Lankes (AT), Simone Kriglstein (AT) and Jeremiah Diephuis (US)
Expanded Play is a cooperative exhibition that explores various perspectives of mixed reality and spatial interaction within the realm of playful media.