At the Futurelab, Ars Electronica’s laboratory atelier, thirty-five individuals from around the world with diverse expertise creatively collide. Since 1996, we mix art and technology to create a “tangible future”. At the Ars Electronica Festival 2023, we present artistic expressions, explorations and activities that respond to question “What are the futures” – to envision a new “hope” for diverse futures, to give form to that hope and to take action.
Ars Electronica Futurelab at POSTCITY
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Open Futurelab
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT) / POSTCITY, First Floor
At the Open Futurelab, visitors can network and exchange ideas with the team of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, our partners and many other participants. In the midst of diverse global challenges and technological revolution, the Futurelab is taking on creative questions to explore “What are the Futures?”, to envision a new hope and to take…
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Expert Tour: Open Futurelab at POSTCITY
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
Ars Electronica Futurelab members invite you to embark on a tour through Futurelab’s visions and ideas for tangible futures concentrated at the Open Futurelab. The daily Futurelab Tours guide through the multi-layered experience space, highlighting diverse projects to provoke collective dialogue.
Events, Concerts, Performances
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Future Teams – Visitor Experience
Ricoh Co., Ltd. (JP), Art and Program, Inc. (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
Imagine a future where diverse beings, not just humans but also non-humans, work together as a team. These future teams could include plants, AI, and even the Earth’s environment. The project explores new forms of collaboration and care in the future of teams.
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Future Teams – Prototype Demonstration
Ricoh Co., Ltd. (JP), Art and Program, Inc. (JP), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
Imagine a future where diverse beings, not just humans but also non-humans, work together as a team. These future teams could include plants, AI, and even the Earth’s environment. The project explores new forms of collaboration and care in the future of teams.
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Deep Sync
Susanne Kiesenhofer (AT), Anna Oelsch (DE/AT), Daniel Rammer (AT)
Deep Sync creates an interactive playground for sound and visuals in the immersive Deep Space 8K environment, inviting visitors to experiment with the correlation between psychological and physiological processes.
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Faust VR – Making Of
Salzburger Festspiele (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT), Ars Electronica Festival (AT)
In 2023, the the Salzburg Festival commemorates director and festival co-founder Max Reinhardt by recalling Goethe’s Faust (1933-1937). Wearing VR goggles, visitors to the exhibition “FAUST 2023 – Enchanting Reality of Theatre”, enter a reconstruction of the unique stage design and play recreated by Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Futurelab Night Performances
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
On Saturday Night, the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K will once again be filled with an electrifying atmosphere created by the Futurelab Night Performances. Visitors can enjoy a wide range of experiences circling around visualized sound, sonified biodata, and experimental live visualizations.
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Media Spaces & Generative Art
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria – Digital Arts (AT)
Escape is a short generative animation that utilizes the voronoi algorithm to tell a story. Samsara is a procedural audio-controlled processing installation that cumulates in an intense overall experience.
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Data Art & Science Project
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT), Toyota Coniq Alpha (JP), Akiko Nakayama (JP), Quadrature (DE), Akira Wakita (JP)
The Ars Electronica Futurelab, in collaboration with Toyota Coniq Alpha in Japan, envisions Data Art & Science, a new interdisciplinary field incorporating artistic perspectives for future transformation based on data science, and presenting prototypes that embody Data Art & Science, as the title suggests.
Lectures & Workshops
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SHARESPACE – Panel Discussion
Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)
During this panel discussion consortium members from different research partners discuss the core concepts of the SHARESPACE project, why art exploration is important in European R&D projects, and the Open Call for Artists put out by the project.
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Bridge 2040 – Guided Game Session
Peter Haider (AT), Denise Hirtenfelder (AT), Nicolas Naveau (FR/AT), Maria Pfeifer (AT)
Bridge 2040 is a quick card game for storytelling. Whether it’s an everyday anecdote, a thriller or an adventure, players create as a team a story around fictional characters living in 2040. In the process, participants respond to trends, artworks, and questions on the individual cards they picked.