post city kit – Post City

F 015 Luxury in Motion

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:12:30 +0000

This research vehicle gives a pretty amazing preview of what the self-driving car of the future might look like. 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. And this is not only exemplified by the F 015’s sleek proportions; a core concept of this research vehicle is constant exchange of information among the car, the people inside it, and the outside world. The passengers can interact with the intelligent technology they’re riding in via gestures, eye-tracking or high-definition touch screens. Plus, the F 015 Luxury in Motion uses laser projections and LED displays to considerately share the streets with others going on their way.

More infos about the F 015 and the cooperation with the Ars Electronica Futurelab

Soya C(o)u(l)ture

raphaelgi — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:59:03 +0000

Soya C(o)u(l)ture–Workshops
FRI September 4, 2015, 11 AM-2 PM
SUN September 6, 2015, 11 AM-2 PM, 3 PM-6 PM
PostCity, Fashion District

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.

FOCUS

raphaelgi — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:25:35 +0000

The FOCUS application for mobile devices is a camera function with a fun new wrinkle. In fact, it’s an experimental prototype that the Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT) came up with as a way to foster social interaction. Installation visitors can use it to take a picture of any motif they select and produce it in the small, round format of a button (the kind you pin to your lapel). Then it can be uploaded to the FOCUS-website and shared with others. The presentation at the FOCUS terminal in PostCity invites festivalgoers to select a photo from the collection and generate it as a button users can take home with them.

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

raphaelgi — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:45:54 +0000

In the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy, experts from Ars Electronica’s research laboratory mentor students working at the nexus of art, technology and society at eminent international partner universities, opening a field of creative exchange across cultures and disciplines.

Radically different

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 that envision radically different interpretations of a Post-City Kit:

An ultrasonic glove

IrukaTact by Aisen Caro Chacin (US) and Takeshi Oozu (JP) is a submersible haptic search glove inspired by dolphin (= iruka) echolocation that assists the location of sunken objects after a flood, translating ultrasonic range finding data to haptic feedback using a novel approach. Conceived as a kit for emergency situations, it is open-source and can be constructed using readily available materials and digital fabrication processes.

A mirroring tablet

idMirror by Maša Jazbec (SI) and Floris Erich (NL) is an artistic project that investigates how social networks and emerging mobile technologies have forever changed the perception of human identity. The piece uses tablet computers’ inherent resemblance of mirrors to play with this identity by turning the visitors’ faces into the objects of unexpected manipulation.