Horst Hörtner (AT)
Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab

Ars Electronica Futurelab and Honda R&D are currently conducting collaborative research into the next generation-relationship between humans and robots. From industrial robots supporting the production process to humanoid robots, many researchers have explored the range of possibilities for robots. Recently, these robot technologies are integrated mostly with information technology, and we see the robotization of physical space emerging. Therefore the applied research contains important questions, such as how will we integrate technologies like the “Humanoid Robot ASIMO” into our daily life, and how we can influence human acceptance and coexistence.

Panel 1: Human Robot Interaction Design
4. 9 10:30 – 12:30

In the Human-Robot Interaction Design session, we will discuss how we can apply methodologies from the fields of art, motion, communication, and interaction to the problem of finding ways in which human robot interactions become natural and intuitive.

Schedule

• 10:30 Introduction by Christopher Lindinger (AT)
  Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 10:40 Matthew Gardiner (AU)
  Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 11:05 Anthony Dunne (UK)
  Professor and Head of the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art
• 11:30 Golan Levin (US)
  Director Studio for Creative Inquiry and Professor of Electronic Art, Design and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
• 11:55 Satoshi Shigemi (JP)
  Project Leader of the ASIMO Development
• 12:15 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Christopher Lindinger (AT), Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab

Panel 2: Human-Robot Harmony
4.9. 13:30 – 15:45

What is essential in creating harmony in a society living together with robots? We will take a close look at the key elements in considering the balance – not the border – between humans and robots.

Schedule

• 13:30 Introduction by Christopher Lindinger (AT)
  Christopher Lindinger (AT), Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 13:40 Noel Sharkey (UK)
  Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield
• 14:00 Alan Shapiro (US/DE)
  Technologist and Futurist
• 14:20 Bernad Batinic (DE/AT)
  Professor and Head of the Psychology and Pedagogic Department at the University Linz
• 14:40 Hideaki Ogawa (JP/AT)
  Artist & Creator in the Research and Innovation Group of the Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 15:00 Satoshi Shigemi (JP)
  Project Leader of the ASIMO Development
• 15:20 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Christopher Lindinger (AT) Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab

Real experiences and emotions play an important role for the immersive embedding of users in interactive entertainment & media formats that display great future promise. Here, the boundary between reality and virtuality becomes increasingly blurred. Interaction is considered the crux of modern digital media; it enables a global and mobile society to engage in new forms of exchange and encounter. Within the scope of this research, we are endeavoring to identify possibilities of how to playfully combine technology and entertainment, and what could serve as the basis of this fusion.

Schedule

• 16:00 Introduction by Roland Haring (AT)
  Senior Research Lead, Research and Innovation Group, Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 16:20 Robert Praxmarer (AT)
  Researcher, multimedia artist and developer. Head of Department at the Augmented Reality & Games at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg.
• 16:40 Gordon Calleja, (MT)
  Head of the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen.
• 17:00 Frank Rose (US)
  Contributing editor Wired magazine, writes about media, advertising and entertainment. His next book will be The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, forthcoming in 2011 from W.W. Norton.
• 17:20 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Roland Haring (AT), Senior Research Lead, Research and Innovation Group, Ars Electronica Futurelab

The possibilities of integrating media design in architecture are vast and we have just begun to explore what we can do beyond putting big screens on façades. By converting the walls into a membrane for the dialog between the city and the citizens, we can construct attractive experiences that communicate the story of a building – be it commercial, as in retail environments, or educational, as in museums. We can respond to the need to find our way through endless corridors with the opportunity to create challenging artistic works.

Schedule

• 10:00 Introduction by Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT)
  Director Media and Architecture, Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 10:15 Eckehart Loidolt (AT)
  Architect and Director, Schneider+Schumacher/Wien
• 10:45 Tim Edler (DE),
  Managing Director, Realitis: United
• 11:15 Break
• 11:30 Chriss Bosse (DE)
  Architect, L.A.V.A (Skype conference)
• 12:00 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT), Director Media and Architecture, Ars Electronica Futurelab

If labs want to continue to lodge a claim to design excellence that they have rightfully earned, we’ll have to deal with the world around us. Incessantly progressing global warming, he widening of the so-called digital gap between urban areas and regions with lower-grade infrastructure and between industrialized and developing countries are just a few of the scenarios on which labs are expected to take a stand. The labs of the future will (have to) deploy their entire creative potential in order to utilize technology as a means of bringing about advances in other sectors (like social welfare and education) that have a major impact on culture.

Schedule

• 14:00 Introduction by Horst Hörtner (AT)
  Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab, AT
• 14:30 Angela Plohman (CA)
  Director of BALTAN Laboratories in Eindhoven (NL). Has worked for the last twelve years in the field of art and technology.
• 15:00 Masa Inakage (JP)
  Dean and professor at Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University. Internationally-reknowned digital artist, director, and producer, one of Japan‘s leading authorities on emerging technologies and digital entertainment content production.
• 15:30 Zachary Lieberman (US)
  Artist and co-creator of openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding. He teaches at Parsons School of Design.
• 16:00 Gary McDarby (UK)
  Expert in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, based in the Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory in University College Dublin.
• 16:30 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Horst Hörtner (AT), Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab, AT

The Future Factory is a heterogeneous, dynamic configuration populated by representative of a wide variety of approaches and diverse disciplines. The participants elaborate on their motivations and what results from them on the basis of works on display in conjunction with the Future Factory.

• 10:00 Introduction by Pascal Maresch (AT)
  Director Media Performance, Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 10:05 Knowledge from Outer Space – A.R.T.
  Michael Badics (AT), Geschäftsführer Memetics GmbH
  Attempt. Risk. Trouble. Artistic creation, new modes of cooperations, Green Economy strategies, lateral thinking of technologies as important inputs for approaches and solutions to the necessary change process taking part in society as a whole: experiences with the concept „Energy Gazer“.
• 10:30 Sense the invisible
  Hide Ogawa (JP), Artist
  Hide Ogawa talks about the h.o solo exhibition 2010 – Sense the invisible, which is currently displayed in the Ars Electronica Center
• 11:00 Oribotics: The Future Unfolds
  Matthew Gardiner (AUS), Artist/Oriboticist
  Oribotics is a field of research that thrives on the aesthetic, biomechanic, and morphological connections between nature, origami and robotics.
• 11:30 Embodiment
  Horoshi Ishiguro (JP), Professor of Osaka University
  Mr. Ishiguro will talk about the concept of the Embodiment exhibition and his new work on “minimal design of human.”
• 12:00 AmbiKraf
  Mili John Tharakan (IN), Research Associate Keio-NUS CUTE Center
  Textile Artist-Researcher. Her work explores ways to democratize technology and find a new language for the textile craft communities of Asia to engage with digital technology and smart materials.

Moderation: Pascal Maresch (AT), Director Media Performance, Ars Electronica Futurelab

The Ars Electronica Futurelab invited media façades pioneers, who provide sustainable infrastructures and new communication platforms for modern active citizens. The main topic will be the possibilities that emerge between the virtual and real public space based on new cooperation models between socio-political, cultural, architecturally aesthetic and economic interests.

Schedule Part I: Reality and Vision

• 10:00 Welcome Address by Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT)
  Director Media and Architecture, Ars Electronica Futurelab and Susa Pop, Managing Director, Public Art Lab
• 10:15 Introduction by Miram Strupek (DE)
  Urban Media Researcher
• 10:45 Oliver Ebert (DE)
  Architect, MA, ag4
• 11:15 Gernot Tscherteu (AT)
  Media and Interaction Designer
• 12:00 Panel Discussion: Media Facades and Urban Screens
  Nerea Calvillo (SP) (Media Lab Prado Madrid), Heather Corcoran (UK) (Fact Liverpool), Jan Edler (DE) (Realitis:United) Minna Tarkka (FI) (m-cult Helsinki), Marie-Laure Delaby (BE) (iMA L)
• 12:45 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Susa Pop (DE), Managing Director Public Art Lab

Schedule Part II: The aesthetic of light / Light Pollution

• 14:00 Dietmar Hager (AT)
  Astrophotograph and Medical Doktor AKH Linz
• 14:20 Thomas Posch (AT)
  Astronomer and Philosopher, University Vienna
  
• 14:40 Othmar Cosar (AT)
  Environmental criminologist, Kripo Linz
  
• 15:00 Andreas Böhlke (DE)
  Lighting desinger, Festival of Lights Berlin
• 15:20 Norbert Chmel (AT)
  LDE, Wien
• 16:00 Panel Discussion: The aesthetics of light
  Dietmar Hager (AT), Thomas Posch (AT), Othmar Cosar (AT), Oliver Ebert (DE), Norbert Chmel (AT)
• 16:45 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Eckehart Loidolt, schneider+schumacher/Wien

Also see: Facade Festival

The Windowfarms Project is a fast-growing web platform that helps city dwellers grow food in their apartments year-round and channels their innovations into an open research framework for the future of urban agriculture.

Over 14,000 participants are building these compact vertical hydroponic gardens in windows around the world, proposing and testing design modifications, and experimenting with different vegetables and nutrients.

http://www.windowfarms.org

Supported by the municipal gardens of Linz.

Access to healthy drinking water is a basic right, but also a technical and social challenge. Accordingly, experts in technology, biology, medicine, art and design collaborated on the development of the Quelle 01 (Spring 01) drinking water purification system. It takes local tap water, physically and chemically purifies it, and delivers water as if from a natural spring. The assignment was to achieve consummate drinking water quality, and to use local sources of water worldwide in order to avoid unnecessary transportation, cleaning and recycling of bottles. The outcome is to bring technology, nature and life into harmony in a way that has great future promise. Three of these devices will be exhibited at Ars Electronica.

http://www.quellsysteme.de

At this year‘s symposium, attendees will get an opportunity to hear about the individual works as well as to hear from a few of the people behind the concepts. They’ll go into detail about their individual approaches and discuss them with audience members. Here, the accent is on a lively process of exchange among participants.

Schedule

• 13:00 Introduction by Bernhard Böhm (AT)
  Project coordinator [the next idea]
• 13:10 Frederik de Wilde (BE) – Hostage
  Winner of the [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant 2010
  Studied fine arts (MA), audio-visual arts(MA) & followed a pre-education in architecture, concluded his studies with a post-graduate degree in new media, arts & design at TRANSMEDIA.
• 14:10 Jonas Burki (CH) – Sun_D
  Winner of the [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant 2007
  Dipl. Interaktionsleiter FH. Founded hiscompany SUN-D GmbH in 2008. Won the W.A. de Vigier Award in 2009.
• 15:10 Niels Peter Flint (DK) – WonderWorldCompostdo
  Working in the field of design, art, architecture and sustainable development. His big passion is developing visions and projects for a prosperous sustainable future.
• 16:10 Adam Zaretsky (NL) – Studiolab & Huub de Groot (NL)
  [the next idea] honorary mention 2010
  Adam Zaretsky is one of the founders of the newly developing vivoart movement. Pop-art artist and assemblagist, works with lost and found objects for sculpting. Huub de Groot works as scientist at the university of Leiden researching in the “Towards Biosolar Cells” program.

Moderation: Bernhard Böhm (AT), Project coordinator [the next idea]

Projektleitung Future Factory: Roland Haring (AT), Bernhard Böhm (AT)
Ausstellungsgestaltung: Gerald Priewasser (AT)