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Panel 1: [the next idea] in research

10:00 Horst Hörtner (Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Pixelspaces Welcome Address
10:30 Bernhard Böhm (Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT): Introduction
10:40 Gerard Rubio (Artist, blablabLAB / ES), Raul Nieves (Artist, Haberlandt / ES)
11:00 Elizabeth Otieno (Project Manager, Kibilight Project / KE)
11:20 James Burke (Information Architect, Experience Designer, P2P Foundation / NL/UK)
11:40 Roundup and Discussion

The objective of this panel is to shed some light on the new interrelationship among science, technology and society from practitioners’ perspectives and to go through a process of reflection about the present and future opportunities and risks associated with this development. In the first panel, we’ll showcase outstanding projects that were singled out for recognition in [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant competition at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica. They have to do with energy, mobility and access, issues of enormous importance to humankind’s future.

Pixelspaces – Day 1: Changing the Research Paradigm

Having gotten its start with simple everyday objects and progressed all the way to highly complex scientific test assemblies, there doesn’t seem to be anything the “do-it-yourself” culture can’t do. People are eplicating scientific experiments in their own living room, opening up new market niches with the simplest of technologies, and delivering electricity to disadvantaged regions in developing countries. This trend is emblematic of a cultural orientation that proceeds under the assumption that technologies and professional expertise are not only to be produced in scientific laboratories or by large companies. The first day of the pixelspaces Symposium will take a closer look at what’s happening here.

Panel 1: [the next idea] in research

The objective of this panel is to shed some light on the new interrelationship among science, technology and society from practitioners’ perspectives and to go through a process of reflection about the present and future opportunities and risks associated with this development.