Humans and avatars, immersive spaces, performances and presentations – the “Futurelab Night” is an exciting trip into the future. Tickets should be purchased sooner rather than later.
Anyone visiting the Ars Electronica Center on Saturday, September 7 in the late afternoon should not be surprised at the long queue in front of the entrance to Deep Space 8K. The “Futurelab Night” is about to begin and (almost) everyone wants to be there.
Please note: Limited capacity, registration required – in addition to a valid ticket, you need a (free) ticket reservation for the respective event in advance.
The Futurelab is Ars Electronica’s think-and-do tank and works on the social aspects of technological developments. Its international and interdisciplinary team investigates how artificial intelligence, robotics, media architecture, interactive technologies, new forms of aesthetic expression and swarm intelligence influence our lives as individuals and as a society. The prototypes that are created in the process have already set world records (in 2012, the world’s largest autonomous drone swarm to date was launched in collaboration with Intel), attracted crowds (in 2015, Daimler’s then concept car, the “Mercedes F015”, was brought to Linz) and won awards non-stop (in 2022, the “Virtual Anatomy” software developed in collaboration with Siemens Healthineers and the Johannes Kepler University Linz was awarded a silver medal at the Triple E Awards).
Under the motto “Open Futurelab”, the team will provide insights into its research and development work throughout the festival, and on Saturday evening there will always be a “Futurelab Night” in the Deep Space 8K (naturally developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab). The program includes immersive short presentations and artistic performances that revolve around the lab’s research questions and thus highly topical social issues. One example is the EU-funded research project SHARESPACE, which asks what the interaction between humans and avatars will look like in the future and how and with what we can design the hybrid spaces in which they interact with each other. With “Falcon Heavy” by Johannes Pöll and “Converge” by Patrick Berger, two experimental proposals will be presented as part of the “Futurelab Night”.
