drones – Artificial Intelligence

Future in a Nutshell – Future for All

Martin Hieslmair — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:40:16 +0000

Future in a Nutshell – Future for All

Recent years have been marked by very many dynamic technical and scientific developments, all of them with a high potential to change our world, the way we think, the way we work, the way we do business.

Digitalization is often used as the overall term for these trends, which go as far as robotics and autonomous mobility, Internet of Things and smart environments or AI, machine learning and digital assistants. The new Ars Electronica program Future in a Nutshell is a special and unique opportunity to get an introduction and overview of these game-changing new technologies—understandable to everybody yet presented by selected experts from these fields.

MO Sept. 11, 2017

10:00 AM–10:30 AM	Opening, Moderator: Kenneth Lang, Andreas Wochenalt
10:30 AM–11:30 AM	Kenric McDowell (US): Deep Learning
11:30 AM–12:00 noon	Hiroshi Ishii (JP/US): IoT (Internet of Things)
12:45 PM–1:45 PM	Ulrich Eberl (DE): Autonomous Mobility
2:15 PM–2:45 PM	Rama Akkiraju (US): Compassionate Conversational Systems
2:45 PM–3:15 PM	Jaromil (IT/NL): Blockchain
3:45 PM–4:30 PM	Horst Hörtner (AT): Drones and the future of swarm logistics

Credits

An event by the Austrian Tourism Days in cooperation with Österreich Werbung, WKO und BMWFW.

Hybrid Art – A Study into 21st Century Drone Acoustics

Gregor Tatschl — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:17:37 +0000

Gonçalo Freiria Cardoso (PT), Ruben Pater (US)

The artists Ruben Pater and the composer Gonçalo Freiria Cardoso are interested in the auditive dimension of military drones. In their project they emphasize the destructive aspects of this technology, calling attention to the negative psychological effects that inhabitants in areas of conflict are exposed to.

The project consists of audio recordings of seventeen types of drones and a specially composed piece inspired by the destructive power of drone technology. A further contribution of their “Study into Drone Acoustics of the 21st century” is a drone survival guide – similar to a bird-watching guide. This alludes to the military tradition of naming drones after types of birds. The guide includes suggestions for how to optically and acoustically recognize and distinguish unmanned aircraft and how to avoid being detection by drones.

At the OK-Night on 9.9. Gonçalo Freiria Cardoso and Ruben Pater will give a live audiovisual performance in the OK-Deck.

Credits

www.droneacoustics.org

Swarm Compass

Martin Hieslmair — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:16:09 +0000

The basic concept behind Swarm Compass is to help people navigate by utilizing swarm intelligence. Going beyond simple signage to swarmbased social communication services is a task that the Japanese telecommunications company NTT and the Ars Electronica Futurelab have cooperatively invested in by using the Spaxels. The swarm infotainment demonstrated by drones is a prototype designed to be used in Tokyo in the year 2020, leading visitors and residents to their destinations in a playful manner. The festival audience will witness the first steps in creating new types of social services based on swarm intelligence.

HOMO DIGITALIS—How much longer will we still actually be human?

Gregor Tatschl — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 08:27:59 +0000

Christiane Miethge (DE), Nils Otte (DE)

Will we all, at some point, have virtual friends, enjoy sex with robots more than making love to a real person, and hack our own body? Homo Digitalis is a Web series about the ultimate future question: What is the digital revolution doing with us human beings?

The protagonist Helen Fares begins her search at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, gets acquainted with virtual friends, learns to steer a drone with her brain and to hack her own DNA. Encounters with experts in the US, Japan and Britain provide additional international context to the posed question: What insights does Helen derive from her journey through futuristic technologies? Are we Homo Digitalis evolving into a new species: Homo Digitalis?

Homo Digitalis is simultaneously a scientific experiment. In cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute, BR, ARTE and ORF developed a playful test: How long do you still have as a human being? Find out with our Homo Digitalis Chatbot or at www.homodigitalis.tv!

Credits

Directors: Christiane Miethge, Nils Otte
Host: Helen Fares
Camera: Kyrill Ahlvers, Tenzin Sherpa
Sound: Gidon Lasch, Nils Otte
Editors: Tim Sprado, Daniel Bluhm
Animation and graphics: Anna Hunger, Sven Schulz
Illustrations: Benny Nero
Programming: Bernd Paulus, Phuoc Le, Lena Fischer
Producer, Web series: Andreas Martin
Producer, online test: Miriam Mogge
Production director: Laura Sages
Creative director: Christiane Miethge
Scientific director: Kathrin Pollmann
Team Ars Electronica Futurelab: Christopher Lindinger, Martina Mara, Maria Pfeifer, Roland Aigner, Clemens Francis Scharfen, Peter Holzkorn, Michael Platz, Nicole Grüneis, Peter Freudling, Erika Jungreithmayr, Manuel Selg
Producers: Dietmar Lyssy, Marcus Uhl

Editor, BR: Thomas Sessner
Editors, ARTE: Katja Ferwagner, Katja Dünnebacke, Aurélie Marx
Editor, ORF: Robert Glashüttner, Siegfried Steinlechner

Produced by Bilderfest GmbH and BR—Bavarian Broadcasting; co-produced by ARTE and the ORF—Austria Broadcasting Company.

Thanks to Fraunhofer Institute, IAO and the Ars Electronica Futurelab