Akademisches Gymnasium
CADET – Center for Advances in Digital Entertainment Technologies
In the CADET – Center for Advances in Digital Entertainment Technologies research project funded by the FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency’s Cooperation & Innovation (COIN) program, the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and the Ars Electronica Futurelab are teaming up their technical capabilities and design skills to decisively strengthen Austria as a place to do business in the field of creative engineering. Continue reading
Moves Reloaded
Moves Reloaded is an interactive installation that lets visitors become a part of an endless, ever-changing choreography. An installation visitor performs three seconds of his/her best dance moves and the system records and collages them—differently every time, depending on the music. Continue reading
Spaxels Concept Demos
Ars Electronica Futurelab staffers have been doing R&D since 2012 on what they’ve dubbed spaxels (space pixels) – a swarm of quadcopters that can fly in precise formation and thus “draw” three-dimensional images in midair. Continue reading
Future Playground
Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ars Electronica Solutions invite visitors to think of what’s happening at the nexus of art, technology, society – and change. Continue reading
Japan Media Arts Festival
The Japan Media Arts Festival honors outstanding works from a wide range of media, from animation and comics to media art and games. There are four categories of awards: Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga. An artist talk. Continue reading
Skeletonics
This movement magnification suit realizes dynamic arm and leg movements that ordinarily cannot be expressed by the human body. Continue reading
iPhone Quick-Draw System
Draw! The iPhone Quick-Draw System that the Japan Media Arts Festival is presenting in the Future Innovators Exhibit will add a whiff of the Wild West to the high-gloss world of modern media. Continue reading
Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?
A piece of no-man’s-land in Japan that belonged to France until 2009 when it reverted to Japan, which will possess it until 2059 when it re-reverts to France—this geo-political oddity reminded Aki Inomata of the behavior of hermit crabs and inspired him to create this work. After all, hermit crabs cast off their shell when they outgrow them. Continue reading
Looks Like Music
Looks Like Music is an installation centered around Yuri Suzuki’s sound piece Colour Chaser, in which a miniature robot detects and follows a black line. When it crosses colored lines it translates this data into sound. Continue reading