Program

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

Deep Space LIVE

The Ars Electronica Center screens pictures, films, animated features and 3D applications in mind-blowing size and sharpness in Deep Space. This facility is equipped with eight projectors that produce 16×9-meter, ultra-high-definition images on the space’s walls and floor. 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

ScienceBrunch

Here, top-name experts will discuss how digitization is changing our lives and how new solutions emerging from science and R&D are driving this development forward. Continue reading

Prix Ars Electronica Forums

Prix Forums are great opportunities to meet Prix Ars Electronica prizewinners and get personally acquainted with their work. 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

Bienenstock (Beehive)

Bienenstock is an ongoing artistic research experiment for collecting and contextualizing video content from people during live happenings. Continue reading