Futurelab Night

Futurelab Night / Ars Electronica Futurelab - Photo: Bettina Gangl

Ars Electronica Futurelab EVENTS / Deep Space 8K

Experience

Futurelab Night

Immersive Future Report

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Futurelab Night in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K is where artistic research is transformed into immersive experiences and mesmeric performances. The Ars Electronica Futurelab’s processes are shared on stage—not to display answers, but to pose urgent questions.

On offer is a multisensory dialog, presenting a “future report” on the lab’s most recent works and projects. These include experiments with synchronization and co-presence in hybrid spaces shared with avatars, as well as experiments in how n-dimensional Origami can be made visible and audible.

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SAT 6. Sept. 20:00 – 21:30
SAT 6. Sept. 22:00 – 23:30

Ars Electronica Center, Level 0, Deep Space 8K
Sat 6. Sep 2025 20:00 – 21:30
Sat 6. Sep 2025 22:00 – 23:30

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EN

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ONE DAY PASS, FESTIVALPASS, FESTIVALPASS+

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Registration required / Registrierung notwendig Warning of Strobe light/intense lighting/loud noise. // Dieses Programm enthält stroboskopische Effekte/intensive Lichteffekte/laute Geräusche. 

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  • Photo: Bettina Gangl

    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.