laboratory

Institute for Inconspicuous Languages: Reading Lips

Špela Petrič (SI)

The Institute for Inconspicuous Languages presents an attempt at comprehending plant life by employing both artificial and natural intelligence to interpret the utterances of thousands of microscopic mouthlets speckled on the underside of each plant leaf. Experience the premonition of an interspecies communication to come.

Liquidus

Roman Divotkey (AT), Nora Loimayr (AT), Christoph Schaufler (AT), Wolfram Weingartner (AT)

*Liquidus* is an interactive, physics-based fluid simulation that turns Deep Space into a playful laboratory to experiment with various properties of liquids and gases. Data for the physics calculations are processed and visualized in real-time and are also utilized to create a soundscape that supports the overall visual experience.

Tea Session: Laboratory of the Future

Panel Discussion

What is the role of the laboratory in the 21st century? This panel discussion will take a closer look at the constellations and methodologies that form the modern-day laboratory, spanning from scientific research to the Art Thinking methods so frequently employed within the Ars Electronica Futurelab itself. Working at the nexus of art, technology and society, Ars Electronica’s very own atelier and laboratory will be the starting point for a discussion on contemporary art and research practices both within and beyond the Ars Electronica ecosystem.

Mutupo

Natsai Audrey Chieza (UK), Karl Aspelund (US)

Mutupo: Origin stories of a multi-planetary diaspora explores the theatre of space through a new envisioning of space nomadism, its emergent cultures, beginning with speculative mythologies tied to DNA – the most ancient yet prescient origin text.

In the Lab: Processing Fashion

Fashion & Technology, University of Art and Design Linz (AT)

The participatory workshop situation *In the Lab: Processing Fashion* aims to make alternatives to the system of fast fashion visible and tangible.

Deep Data Prototypes 1, 2 + 3

Andy Gracie (UK)

A real-time astrobiological experiment, a performative laboratory, where custom-built equipment operates according to data sourced throughout the solar system. Terrestrial organisms become our space explorers by proxy.