Open Futurelab

Open Futurelab / Ars Electronica Futurelab - Photo: Bettina Gangl

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Open Futurelab

Experience Futures in the Making

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

The Open Futurelab in POSTCITY invites you to experience and participate in the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s ongoing research, with interactive installations, experimental prototypes, hands-on workshops, and shared dialogue.

As a visitor, you explore the ground truth between human experience and machinic reality as well as how AI personalities influence our behavior. Interactive, speculative communication with ravens is part of the Open Futurelab as well, as is showcasing how integrating data, art, and science can foster community-driven revitalization in rural regions in Japan. Co-creation is also at the heart of an innovative XR sandbox tool to shape collective imagination, and a new kind of city tour that invites everyone to share their perspectives.

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  • 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.

  • SHARESPACE

    SHARESPACE Consortium (EU), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT), Leon Butler (IE), Peter Power (IE)

    SHARESPACE is a European XR project about collaboration between humans and avatars. At the Festival, visitors explore multi-user interactive artworks in Deep Space 8K such as Deep Sync Connect, Converge 2, and Foolish Flame.

  • Beyond Curiosity

    Linz Tourismus (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    Beyond Curiosity is a participatory virtual tour through Linz using cutting-edge 3D Gaussian Splatting technology to capture the city’s landmarks. It enables both visitors and residents to capture and share their favorite hidden gems of the city.

  • Inference Ground Truth

    Johannes Pöll (AT), Raphael Schaumburg-Lippe (AT), Simon Schmid (AT)

    Inference Ground Truth is an experiment in overlapping realities between human experience and machinic reality, using the recent rasterization technique of Gaussian Splatting. Visitors are invited to become interactive participants in the artwork that records volumetric traces of movement.

  • Corpus Corax

    Peter Holzkorn (AT), Nicolas Naveau (FR/AT), Anna Weiss (DE/AT)

    Corpus Corax is a speculative, interactive interspecies experience that immerses the visitors in communication with ravens in an age of Artificial Intelligence, animal intelligence, and human confusion.

  • NeXus Print

    Dai Nippon Printing (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    NeXus Print is a new XR platform that lets users collaboratively create immersive worlds in real-time using generative AI. The inclusive environment invites visitors of Open Futurelab to envision futures together and share their experiences.

  • Data Art & Science Initiative

    Toyota Coniq (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    Experience a glimpse into the planned Data Art & Science Center in Hikone. It aims to use data, art, science, and civic engagement collaboratively to shape the future of Japan’s Shiga region.

  • Life Ink Community

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

    Take part in a novel immersive experience, interpreting biosignals into a new form of digital ink, featuring glass-free stereoscopic 3D and surround sound.

  • Creative Futurists Initiative

    The University of Tokyo (JP), Sony Group Corporation (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    The Creative Futurists Initiative aims to cultivate individuals who can transcend various boundaries to create new value for the future. With Art Thinking workshops and lectures, one of the focus points is how artists deal with bias in technology.

  • What does a bacterial civilization leave behind?

    Yitong Tseo (US)

    Faces for faceless microbes. Over 6 years—8,000 generations of bacteria, an ancestral arc on the scale of the human race—are cast into living masks of biofilm. Sustained by bioreactors, each face is a living fossil of deep evolutionary time: ancient-modern relics from a grand microbial empire.

  • Folded Futures

    Kanata Warisaya (JP), Hiroki Minimi (JP), Tachi Lab (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    Tachi Lab and Futurelab unite in a unique residency program to exchange and advance knowledge in origami and robotics. The residency combines origami mathematics with practical hands-on fabrication and material programming.

  • Alter.Ego

    Godot (AT/JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    Alter.Ego is an interactive claw machine that shifts personalities to explore how different character traits influence human emotions, trust, and behavior in interactions with agentic AI.

  • mozXR

    Universität Mozarteum Salzburg (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    mozXR is an upcoming open-source framework developed to aid artists and researchers create projects for the X-Reality-Lab at the Mozarteum University and other projection spaces such as the Deep Space 8K.

  • ORI*botics

    Matthew Gardiner (AU/AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    An exploration of Origami robotics (ORI*botics) investigating open problems in: Programming: exploration of form and function with computational tools; Transformation: advancement of actuation methods through material research; Sensing: application of sensing towards self-aware origami

  • Future Humanity Research

    Toyota Motor Corporation's Advanced Technology Development Company (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

    The world is rapidly changing, with AI, environmental shifts, and global complexities making us rethink who we are and our place in the world. By blending art with technology, Ars Electronica Futurelab and Toyota Motor Corporation's Advanced Technology Development Company are asking imaginative questions about humanity's future.

Please note: The program for the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 is still in progress.
We are currently preparing all the information for the website and plan to put the full program online in the coming days – stay tuned!