Life Ink Community

Life Ink Community / Wacom, TOA, Ars Electronica Futurelab - Photo: Ars Electronica Futurelab

Open Futurelab

Exhibit

Life Ink Community

How Can Collaboration Expand Access to Creative Expression?

Wacom (JP), TOA (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Life Ink is an artistic exploration of the intricate creative processes occurring in the brain and body. Using biosensing technology and a new form of digital ink, Life Ink makes the invisible visible by capturing inner states as they change and interpreting them into an intuitive and accessible form of expression. At the Open Futurelab, you can put on the biosensing gear and experience the novel immersive installation Life Ink Community, featuring glass-free stereoscopic 3D and surround sound.

Developed through the long-running Future Ink collaboration between Wacom and Ars Electronica Futurelab, Life Ink now invites the public and new collaborators to help expand the platform and community, in partnership with sound experience collaborator TOA.

Life Ink premiered at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022, later becoming part of the Ars Electronica Center’s permanent exhibition and inspiring new projects like LIFE INKlusive (2025), also present at the Festival.

POSTCITY, First Floor, Open Futurelab

  • 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.

  • Wacom

    Wacom is the leading manufacturer of pen tablets, interactive pen displays, and digital interface solutions, used to create a wide variety of digital arts, films, fashion and design around the world. The company also offers its digital pen solutions to leading IT and stationery brands on OEM bases. Working closely with various communities, Wacom will carry on its pursuit of “Draw” and “Write” and extend it to a wealth of experiences that encompass or transcend pen and ink solutions.

Credits

Ars Electronica Futurelab: Alexandre Bizri Ars Electronica Ambassador: Yoko Shimizu Partner: Wacom Sound Art: TOA