Robolab

2004

The Futurelab is a model of a new kind of media art laboratory in which artistic and technological innovations engender reciprocal inspiration. The lab’s teams bring together a wide variety of specialized skills; their approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity and international networking. The Futurelab’s wide-ranging activities include designing and engineering exhibitions, creating artistic installations, as well as pursuing collaborative research with universities and joint ventures with private sector associates.

On display here are the results of the Artist-in-Residence Program in which artists from beyond Austria’s borders are given the opportunity to develop and execute projects at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman (USA), John Gerrard (IRL) and Takehisa Mashimo, Satoshi Shibata and Akio Kamisato (J) created the works in this exhibit.