The Ars Electronica’s artistic R&D laboratory and atelier invites you to participate and create the futures together at POSTCITY and in Deep Space 8K: You have the chance to explore collaborative research prototypes, installations, workshops, talks, tours, multiplayer artworks, and performances.
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Ars Electronica Futurelab EVENTS
Ars Electronica Futurelab: Guided Tour
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
At the Ars Electronica Futurelab, we see art not as a decorative accessoire, but as a mindset and human perspective on the world. Join the Guided Tour through the Open Futurelab to explore our strategies in Art Thinking, Future Impact Creation, Art Science Research, and Future Prototypes.
Artistic Exploration of XR Shared Hybrid Spaces
Patrick Berger (AT), Leon Butler (IE), Susanne Kiesenhofer (AT), Peter Power (IE), Anna Weiss (DE/AT), Cyntha Wieringa (NL)
This panel discussion brings together artists who have collaborated within the EU XR project SHARESPACE. Each of them has developed projects exploring collaboration between humans and avatars in shared hybrid spaces. The conversation will center on XR art and the artistic concepts behind their work.
Bias Card Game
Chikako Asai (JP), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP)
The Bias Card Game is a tool to help uncover unconscious biases hidden in our daily lives. Through play, participants reflect on how biases arise in everyday products and services, and explore ways to address them.
Co-Creating Music with AI
Ali Nikrang (AT), Susanne Kiesenhofer (AT)
How do artists engage creatively with AI? How does working with AI reshape artistic collaboration? This panel dives into the creative process behind Walzersymphonie, an artistic research project in which composition students created original musical works in collaboration with a musical AI system.
Co-Creating Key Transformation Indicators
Kathleen Bryson (GB), Ken Moriyma (JP), Maria Pfeifer (AT), Maro Pebo (MX), Hiroaki Tanaka (JP)
Rooted in the Future Impact Creation Framework and real-world experience, this session invites audiences into the messy, visionary process of experimental collaboration. What kind of impact do we want to create—and how do we know it’s happening?
Converge 2
Patrick Berger (AT), Victor Petro (AT), Daniel Rammer (AT), Johannes Pöll (AT)
Converge 2 is the next step in exploring collaborative multiplayer experiences in Deep Space 8K. Extending the original Converge, this iteration expands the concept with refined scenes and experiments with technologies from the SHARESPACE project, aiming to deepen shared presence and collaboration.
Deep Space in Dialog
Melinda File (AT), Roland Haring (AT), Christoph Kremer (AT), Michael Mondria (AT), Daniel Rammer (AT), Kati Romics (HU), Anna Weiss (DE/AT)
Deep Space by Ars Electronica is an immersive space for unique experiences around the world—including artistic performances, games, research findings, point cloud and 3D models, gigapixel images, and more. This event invites you to get to know Ars Electronica Center, Solutions, and Futurelab behind Deep Space.
Expert Tour: Futurelab Art Thinking
Hideaki Ogawa (JP)
In this special guided tour, Hideaki Ogawa, Managing Director and Artistic Director of Ars Electronica Futurelab, will explain the fundamentals of Art Thinking and its practical applications through various projects exhibited at the Open Futurelab.
Foolish Flame
Leon Butler (IE), Peter Power (IE)
Foolish Flame is a transdisciplinary piece that explores the impact we have on the fraught frontiers of climate change. Through collective experience, visitors become avatars in an evolving landscape of environmental narratives and inherited cultural trauma—confronting the grief associated with a changing natural world.
Futurelab Night
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
Futurelab Night in Deep Space 8K is where artistic research is transformed into immersive experiences and mesmeric performances—presenting an immersive “future report” of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s most recent works.
Future Humanity: Open Research Talk I
Etsuko Ichihara (JP), Noemi Iglesias Barrios (ES), Takuma Suzuki (JP), Nicolas Naveau (FR/AT)
This panel discussion explores creative questions about Future Humanity with experts and invites visitors into the process of ongoing research.
Future Humanity: Open Research Talk II
Airí Dordas Perpinyà (ES), Jiabao Li (CN), Misako Kawata (JP), Takashi Nishimura (JP), Kyoko Kunoh (JP)
This panel discussion explores creative questions about Future Humanity with experts and invites visitors into the process of ongoing research.
Future of Art Science Research
Asako Tomura (JP), Matthew Gardiner (AT/AU), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP), Yitong Tseo (US), Victoria Vesna (US)
A question-led reflection on the future of Art Science, an emergent term slicing through the blurry intersection connecting creativity and questions, its researchers and their research.
Good Enough Ethics in XR Shared Spaces
Kathleen Richardson (GB), Kathleen Bryson (GB)
Explore the latest results from our Good Enough Ethics (GEE) study, where SHARESPACE researchers tackle real-world AI and XR dilemmas using GEE values that are critical of ethical perfectionism. GEE is an new approach for ethical reasoning and emotional responsibility in emerging technology.
Inference Ground Truth: Demonstration
Johannes Pöll (AT), Raphael Schaumburg-Lippe (AT), Simon Schmid (AT)
Inference Ground Truth explores how machines and humans perceive and record reality. The artists are present to offer a comprehensive deep dive into the scanning volume as interactive art installation.
Inside Futurelab: The Impact We Want to Create
Alexandre Bizri (FR), Denise Hirtenfelder (AT), Maria Pfeifer (AT), Yoko Shimizu (JP), Yitong Tseo (US), Anna Weiss (DE/AT)
How does the Ars Electronica Futurelab define its own future impact—and how do we make it tangible to our audiences, partners, and ourselves? Be part of the conversation with members of the Futurelab team.
Inside Futurelab: Overlapping Realities of Machines | Humans | Birds
Lisa Canaval (AT), Peter Holzkorn (AT), Horst Hörtner (AT), Johannes Pöll (AT), Raphael Schaumburg-Lippe (AT), Anna Weiss (DE/AT)
The winners of this year’s Futurelab Ideas Expedition critically reflect on and re-negotiate the relationship between humans, machines, and non-human intelligences through speculative and technologically innovative approaches.
Life Ink Community: Demonstration
Alexandre Bizri (FR), Akiyuki Kake (JP), Satoshi Miyata (JP), Yoko Shimizu (JP)
Join the researchers and artists behind Life Ink Community for a daily interactive demo. Participants will be able to experience Life Ink, learn about the wider collaboration, and help shape its future.
NeXus Forum: Real-world Applications of Collaborative XR Environments
Dai Nippon Printing (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
This forum brings together various experts to discuss how the NeXus Print platform and collaborative XR can shape future experiences, daily life, industries, and society.
NeXus Print: Demonstration and Open Research
Dai Nippon Printing (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
In these demonstrations visitors can explore NeXus Print. NeXus Print is a creative XR platform that enables groups to collaboratively and simultaneously co-create and reimagine environments using generative AI in a live, participatory process.
On Oribotics
Matthew Gardiner (AU/AT), Luca Zimmermann (CH), Kanata Warisaya (JP), Hiroki Minami (JP)
Join us for an informal talk and discussion around the oribotic (origami robotic) works in the Open Futurelab. Here you can meet the artists and collaborators and hear their perspectives first-hand, and of course, ask your own questions.
Walzersymphonie
Johann Strauss 2025 Vienna (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
Walzersymphonie explores how composers can collaborate with generative AI in their creative process. Commissioned for Strauss’s 200th anniversary year, the project blends tradition and technology, with performances at the Opening Night and Futurelab Night of the Ars Electronica Festival 2025.
Feminist Tools for the Future
Denise Hirtenfelder (AT), Maria Mayr (AT), Maria Pfeifer (AT), Anna Weiss (AT/DE), Cyntha Wieringa (NL)
This informal gathering marks the beginning of a collaborative journey: using feminist methodologies to shape more inclusive, equitable, and imaginative futures across disciplines.
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Ars Electronica Futurelab
The Futurelab is the Ars Electronica’s artistic R&D laboratory and atelier. Together with worldwide partners, the Futurelab strives to create works that reveal the transformative force that emerges when art, technology, and society converge. The goal is to use these works as a catalyst for future innovation and societal change. The outcomes build on the Futurelab’s Art Thinking method, Art Science Research, and Future Impact Creation for experimental, exploratory future prototyping.