Future Mobility

How we’ll be getting from Point A to Point B in the future are matters with a high degree of potential to change our culture. Discussions of this and related issues, artistic collaborations as well as the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s R&D joint venture with Mercedes-Benz provide an excellent occasion to devote a whole sector of the POST CITY exhibition to the prospects for Future Mobility. More…

Connecting Cities

The Ars Electronica Futurelab has been working since 2012 in the Connecting Cities Network, a global alliance of cities and media art organizations. In conjunction with a four-year artistic research program, the associates are convening to share interim results and to consider diverse artistic activities that have the right stuff to take advantage of the creative potential of media façades. More…

Future Catalyst Program – Ars Electronica 2015 for the Development of the Post City Kit

Following up on the successful launch at Ars Electronica 2014, the Future Catalysts Program this year will again be creating new modes of collective brainstorming and creative prototyping. The Future Innovators Summit was developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and Hakuhodo to bring together artists, researchers, activists and entrepreneurs from all over the world. More…

Deep Space 8K

In the wake of a complete technical makeover by Ars Electronica Futurelab engineers, the screening venue now known as Deep Space 8K has redefined state-of-the-art viewing. This unprecedented next level features 8K resolution! Full HD and 4K are yesterday’s news; 8K is the new standard. Visit the updated Deep Space in the Ars Electronica Center and see what breathtaking means now. More…

Ars Electronica Residency Network

The Ars Electronica Residency Network and its constituent programs target a broad spectrum of artists and scientists. Some of the residencies the network offers provide substantive focal points and working situations custom-tailored to artists who have already achieved a high level of mastery and renown; other residencies are especially designed to nurture the prodigious potential of up-and-coming young talents. More…

Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy

We are delighted to announce the beginning of intensive collaboration between the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy and one of Japan’s finest institutions of higher learning, University of Tsukuba, a leading research facility with a visionary program focusing on cybernetics and human-machine interaction. The school has established a new Ph.D. program in Empowerment Informatics (EMP) that is being headed by none other than Device Art pioneer Hiroo Iwata. Here, the first results of this year’s Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy entitled LAB-X will make their public debut. More…

All at a glance

POST CITY Symposium I: Future Mobility – A Challenge for Art & Science

The concept of mobility used in this POST CITY Symposium is very broadly defined. It encompasses a spectacular R&D prototype of a self-driving car, a survey of urban mobility worldwide as well as the mobility of data, and all the millions of people who are now migrating to cities.

Future Catalyst Program for the Development of the POST CITY Kit

Two programs will occupy the focal point of the Post City Kit activities in the context of the Future Catalyst Program – a toolkit of ideas, strategies, devices and prototypes for the city of the future: The Future Innovators Summit and the Connected Intelligence Atelier.

Prix Forum V – Residency Artists

The Prix Forum VI gatheres with Ryoji Ikeda, Irene Agrivina, Maria Ignacia Edwards and Semiconductor several Residency Artists.

Deep Space 8K

Now, in 2015, Deep Space has been taken to the next level.

F 015 Luxury in Motion

The F 015 not only represents the technical realization of autonomous driving. It also shows how self-driving cars are going to change our society as the automobile moves beyond its role as a means of transportation to become a mobile living space.

Rethinking the Shared Space

Alexander Mankowsky and Christopher Lindinger provide insight into the ongoing research partnership between Ars Electronica Futurelab and Mercedes-Benz.

Shared Space Spaxels

Shared Space Spaxels lets people experience robotic mobility with the help of three quadcopters.

Shared Space Bots

In Shared Space Bots, specially developed robots are the protagonists of experiments in human-automobile interaction.

Soya C(o)u(l)ture-Workshops

(Deutsch) Bei drei Workshops in der Soya C(o)u(l)ture-Schauküche haben die FestivalbesucherInnen selbst Gelegenheit, sich im Upcycling der Abwässer aus der Sojaherstellung zu versuchen.

Connecting Cities Conference

European urban identities, social changes and citizen participation occupy the focal point of the first symposium at the 2015 Festival.

Soya C(o)u(l)ture

(Deutsch) Mit dem künstlerischen Forschungsprojekt Soya C(o)u(l)ture hat XXlab (ID) ein Verfahren entwickelt, Nützliches aus dem bei der Sojaherstellung anfallenden Flüssigabfall zu gewinnen.

Connecting Cities: False Positive

False Positive deploys text messaging, stealth infrastructure, street intervention, and data visualization to enact a surveillance conspiracy engaging the public in an intimate, techno-political conversation with the mobile technologies on which they depend

Connecting Cities: ESEL-Complain

ESEL-Complain shows opportunities and the potential provided by the use of bicycles in public spaces.

FOCUS

The FOCUS application for mobile devices is a camera function with a fun new wrinkle.

KURUMA-IKU Lab

The Kuruma-Iku Lab is a research and development initiative that focuses on the relationships between people and cars and invites children and creators to join the investigation into sustainable roles for cars in our future society.

Connecting Cities: Deep City

Deep City is a data visualization experiment investigating the collective information that defines a city’s present and future.

Connecting Cities: Urban Entropy

Urban Entropy is a public display of complaining and repair, a drama of maintenance and things that do not work.

Post-City Kits from the University of Tsukuba (JP)

During the 2015 Futurelab Academy programme with the Empowerment Informatics PhD programme at Japan’s University of Tsukuba, a leading research university with a visionary focus in human-centred cybernetics, two student teams have produced experimental projects

Connecting Cities: blindage.

blindage. is the french word for a wall, a shield or an envelope, which protects what’s inside. The project focuses on the use of digital masks by contemporary human beings.

Connecting Cities: Flame

Flame wants to give the fire back to the people, to help them forge the tools of the new century, and to burn to the ground the institutions that restrain them, if necessary.

SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE

The Indonesian female art collective XXLab works on a program to create fashion while dealing with environmental problems.

Connecting Cities

The projects by Connecting Cities Network aim to establish urban media façades as open platforms for citizens to engage in participatory city-making processes.

Deep Space 8K: The Soul of the Cube

The Soul of the Cube (SOTC) is a virtual being, an abstract creature that is visible in between applications, it is both a “host” and the inner self of its complex infrastructure.

Deep Space 8K: Inside Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design

New mobility concepts, trailblazing interfaces, the language of forms and the future of brand identity will be the subjects of talks by Vera Schmidt (DE) and Holger Hutzenlaub (DE).

Deep Space 8K: The Universe Within – In the Virtual Anatomy Theater of the Future

An application developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab transforms Deep Space 8K into a virtual anatomy theater in which viewers can observe the human body in 3-D.

Deep Space 8K: Cultural Heritage: The Scottish Ten, Rome´s Invisible City in 3D: A BBC Film, CyArk

Deep Space 8K now lets visitors behold virtual reconstructions of historical sites in 3-D and walk through them in the truest sense of the word.

Deep Space 8K: GameSpace

GameSpace turns the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K into an interactive multiplayer gaming arena.

Deep Space 8K: Timelapse

Combining highly detailed, fast-forward motion pictures with the extraordinarily high degree of resolution in Deep Space 8K opens our eyes to everyday events that we’ve never seen in this form before.

Deep Space 8K: IN2WHITE – MONT BLANC LARGEST PANORAMIC IMAGE and Wide Angles – Vast Land

In2White is a personal homage by photographer Filippo Blengini (IT) to the glacier-and-snow-covered realm of the white mountain: Mont Blanc.

Jangdna

Hyungjoong Kim created Jangdna (Korean: rhythm), an interface that not only analyses and visualizes an audible piece of music, but also makes it modifiable in a very simple way.

the sixth wave of mass extinction

the sixth wave of mass extinction aims at the amygdala of our post-modern societies both sonically and visually to unearth the potentially hidden unease, we all might harbor faced by the sixth wave of mass extinction.

POST CITY Cinema

You won’t find popcorn or a big silver screen in POST CITY Kino. What it does have is high-tech. The Zeiss VR One is the first and, at present, only virtual reality headset to combine a stylish contemporary design with world-class precision optics by Zeiss (DE).

Encounters

The recipient of the Residency staged under the auspices of the Art & Science Network has been announced. Maria Ignacia Edwards was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries who responded to the open call.

Ryoji Ikeda (JP) (Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN 2014)
Irene Agrivina (ID) (SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE, [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant)
Maria Ignacia Edwards (CL) (art & science Residency Award @ ESO 2015)
Semiconductor (UK) (Collide@CERN Ars Electronica Award 2015)
Moderator: Mónica Bello (ES)

Presentations
Symposium Connecting Cities – Connecting Citizens
THU September 3, 2015, 2:30 PM
PostCity, Conference Square

Symposium Smart Creativity, Smart Democracy
SAT September 5, 2015, 10 AM
Ars Electronica Center, Sky Loft

Prix Forum V – Residency Artists
SAT September 5, 2015, 4:15 PM-5:15 PM
OK im OÖ Kulturquartier

For their artistic research project Soya C(o)u(l)ture, XXLab (ID) developed a procedure which takes the liquid waste that’s a byproduct of soya processing and makes useful things out of it: biofuel, foodstuffs and leather-like textiles. To do it, the research team uses various bacteria and cell cultures.

Instead of Waste, Income

The mission of Soya C(o)u(l)ture is, on one hand, to minimize the water pollution that goes along with soya production, and to introduce new methods that are simple, cheap and sustainable. Plus, XXLab aims to provide Indonesian women living in rural areas with new opportunities for gainful employment. XXLab regularly holds workshops to put in place the preconditions for this to happen.

Numerous Workshops and Presentations

In recognition of this innovative methodology as well as their endeavors to protect the environment and improve the lives of a great many people, XXLab is this year’s recipient of [the next idea] voestalpine art and technology grant, a program staged jointly by the Ars Electronica Residency Network and voestalpine.
At the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival, Soya C(o)u(l)ture will demonstrate how it’s done at a show kitchen set up in PostCity, and the group is the subject of a presentation in CyberArts 2015. XXLab representatives will also take part in the Connecting Cities – Connecting Citizens, the Council of Europe’s Symposium Smart Creativity, Smart Democracy and the Prix Forum V – Residency Artists.
At three workshops in the Soya C(o)u(l)ture show kitchen, festivalgoers will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience upcycling waste water from soya processing.

The Connecting Cities Research Residencies have been realized at the Ars Electronica Futurelab with the support of the Ars Electronica Residency Network.

Connecting Cities is initiated by Public Art Lab in cooperation with Ars Electronica Futurelab Linz, Medialab-Prado Madrid, FACT Liverpool, Videospread Marseille, iMAL Brussels, Riga 2014, BIS Istanbul, m-cult Helsinki, Media Architecture Institute Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, in association with Aarhus University, Marseille-Provence 2013, MUTEK Montreal, Quartier des Spectacles Montreal, Foundation Bauhaus Dessau, Verve Cultural Sao Paulo, Federation Square Melbourne, xm:lab Saarbrücken, Sapporo Media Arts Lab, ETOPIA Zaragoza, The Concourse Sydney and 403 International Arts Center Wuhan.
With support of the Culture Programme 2007-2013 of the European Union.

Find more information on www.connectingcities.net

Returning information

Ursula Feuersinger (AT) designed and constructed an interactive terminal to return the data to its source, the urban population, for reconsideration and evaluation. Observers of the project become participants, extracting hidden artifacts from the deep and bringing them to the surface. A crank allows participants to browse through color-coded topologic layers. When users pause on a given color, animated content is revealed, both on the Ars Electronica Center façade and on the terminal’s screen. The second interaction element is a 3D printed cube, a hand-sized, miniature model of the AEC building. By rotating the cube on the interface terminal, users can switch from one city to another and view the respective city’s content.

Deep City Video
Camera: Benjamin Skalet (DE), Claudia Schnugg (AT), Veronika Pauser (AT), Sigrid Nagele (AT)
Editing: Christian Haas (AT), Ursula Feuersinger (AT)

Design, Animation: Ursula Feuersinger (AT)
Sound: Richard Eigner, Roman Gerold (Ritornell/AT)
Technical Support: Leonard Pokropek (AT)

The Connecting Cities Research Residencies have been realized at the Ars Electronica Futurelab with the support of the Ars Electronica Residency Network.

Connecting Cities is initiated by Public Art Lab in cooperation with Ars Electronica Futurelab Linz, Medialab-Prado Madrid, FACT Liverpool, Videospread Marseille, iMAL Brussels, Riga 2014, BIS Istanbul, m-cult Helsinki, Media Architecture Institute Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, in association with Aarhus University, Marseille-Provence 2013, MUTEK Montreal, Quartier des Spectacles Montreal, Foundation Bauhaus Dessau, Verve Cultural Sao Paulo, Federation Square Melbourne, xm:lab Saarbrücken, Sapporo Media Arts Lab, ETOPIA Zaragoza, The Concourse Sydney and 403 International Arts Center Wuhan.
With support of the Culture Programme 2007-2013 of the European Union.

Find more information on www.connectingcities.net

Inside a filter bubble

By bringing complaints from the city’s website into the physical space of the city, Urban Entropy makes a point about an important difference between these two spaces. While civic participation increasingly takes place online, we stay inside a filter bubble and only find what we are looking for. IRL (“In Real Life”), the public space of the city, we cannot foresee or choose whom we might run into, for better or worse, just like the involuntary listeners to the chorus of Urban Entropy’s complaints.

Urban Entropy video
Camera: Benjamin Skalet (DE), Claudia Schnugg (AT), Veronika Pauser (AT)
Editing: Michael Mayr (AT), Veronika Pauser (AT)

The Connecting Cities Research Residencies have been realized at the Ars Electronica Futurelab with the support of the Ars Electronica Residency Network.

Connecting Cities is initiated by Public Art Lab in cooperation with Ars Electronica Futurelab Linz, Medialab-Prado Madrid, FACT Liverpool, Videospread Marseille, iMAL Brussels, Riga 2014, BIS Istanbul, m-cult Helsinki, Media Architecture Institute Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, in association with Aarhus University, Marseille-Provence 2013, MUTEK Montreal, Quartier des Spectacles Montreal, Foundation Bauhaus Dessau, Verve Cultural Sao Paulo, Federation Square Melbourne, xm:lab Saarbrücken, Sapporo Media Arts Lab, ETOPIA Zaragoza, The Concourse Sydney and 403 International Arts Center Wuhan.
With support of the Culture Programme 2007-2013 of the European Union.

Find more information on www.connectingcities.net

Idea, masks, visuals: Anita Brunnauer (nita.) (AT)
Camera, edit: Benjamin Skalet (simp) (DE)
Audio: simp (DE) & STSK (DE)
Technical support: Leonard Prokropek (AT)
Postproduction, motion graphics: Ludwig Tomaschko (AT), Benjamin Skalet (DE), Anita Brunnauer (AT)
Vocals, protagonist chapter nº1 “fleurêve”: Sophia Hagen (soia) (AT)
Dancer chapter nº2 “synanthrope”: Paz Katrina Jimenez (cat) (AT)
Protagonist chapter nº3 “abîme.”: Emily M. Dominguez Castillo (soulcat e-phife) (AT)

The Connecting Cities Research Residencies have been realized at the Ars Electronica Futurelab with the support of the Ars Electronica Residency Network.

Connecting Cities is initiated by Public Art Lab in cooperation with Ars Electronica Futurelab Linz, Medialab-Prado Madrid, FACT Liverpool, Videospread Marseille, iMAL Brussels, Riga 2014, BIS Istanbul, m-cult Helsinki, Media Architecture Institute Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, in association with Aarhus University, Marseille-Provence 2013, MUTEK Montreal, Quartier des Spectacles Montreal, Foundation Bauhaus Dessau, Verve Cultural Sao Paulo, Federation Square Melbourne, xm:lab Saarbrücken, Sapporo Media Arts Lab, ETOPIA Zaragoza, The Concourse Sydney and 403 International Arts Center Wuhan.
With support of the Culture Programme 2007-2013 of the European Union.

Find more information on www.connectingcities.net

Jangdna has been realized within the framework of CAT@Ars Electronica – a program within the Ars Electronica Residency Network in collaboration with CTIA Chungnam Culture Technology Industry Agency (KR).

Sound development supported by Chris Bruckmayr´s Ekdahl Moisturizer

Critics of the System as Movie Stars

Perfect film viewing technology is one thing; films worth seeing is another matter entirely. The two films Ars Electronica will be projecting onto the VR One, Citizenfour by Laura Poitras and TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard by Simon Klose, feature NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the proud copyright brigands of Sweden’s Pirate Bay, and thus protagonists who have scored hits on the world’s political and media systems at their most sensitive spots.

Urban Entropy

A Connecting Cities Research Residency 2015 Project
Dietmar Offenhuber (AT)

Deep City

A Connecting Cities Research Residency 2015 Project
Ursula Feuersinger (AT)

blindage.

A Connecting Cities Research Residency 2015 Project
nita. (AT)

Ars Electronica Futurelab Credits: Veronika Pauser (AT), Claudia Schnugg (AT)

Connecting Cities is initiated by Public Art Lab in cooperation with Ars Electronica Futurelab Linz, Medialab-Prado Madrid, FACT Liverpool, Videospread Marseille, iMAL Brussels, Riga 2014, BIS Istanbul, m-cult Helsinki, Media Architecture Institute Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, in association with Aarhus University, Marseille-Provence 2013, MUTEK Montreal, Quartier des Spectacles Montreal, Foundation Bauhaus Dessau, Verve Cultural Sao Paulo, Federation Square Melbourne, xm:lab Saarbrücken, Sapporo Media Arts Lab, ETOPIA Zaragoza, The Concourse Sydney and 403 International Arts Center Wuhan.
With support of the Culture Programme 2007-2013 of the European Union.

Find more information on www.connectingcities.net

Prix Forum V – Residency Artists: SAT September 5, 2015, 4:15 PM-5:15 PM
Ursulinensaal in OÖ Kulturquartier

María Ignacia Edwards works with equilibrium, the lightness and weightlessness of objects that she brings into balance by deploying their own weight or counterweights. Though, at first glance, her works are perceived as purely aesthetic, artistic objects, it soon dawns on those who behold them that these constructions are the result of elaborate mathematical and physical calculations. Based on her experience at the ESO observatories La Silla and ALMA, María created a “Mobile Instrument”, as the artist calls it, which is able to capture the movement of pieces located at distant places by a musical mechanism as a reference to time and the motion of the universe. She is connecting points for tracing a scale constellation, a map, translated in the walkable city space.

This project has been realized within the European Digital Art and Science Network in collaboration with ESO and the Ars Electronica Residency Network.