MIT Media Lab, Microsoft Research (US)

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly on their skin. Using gold metal leaf, a material that is cheap, skin-friendly, and robust for everyday wear, we demonstrate three types of on-skin interfaces: sensing touch input, displaying output, and wireless communication.

Michel Hohendanner (DE)

Call of Cthulhu is an experimental digital comic that aims to explore the boundaries of visual storytelling. By creating an experimental digital comic, a new reading experience occurs. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Call of Cthulhu it has a very mysterious and dark tonality, marked by fear of the unknown. It engenders great atmospheric depth, which provides a perfect opportunity to be transported by using the new features enabled by digital media.

Marius Hoggenmüller (DE)

Light Shifting Display is a transformable lighting display that presents real-time information in an ambient manner. The prototype features a discrete and continuous display mode that aims to support a wide range of visual representations and to explore the boundaries between display and luminaire design.

Beat Rossmy (DE)

COMB is a shape-based interface for musical interaction. Its current functionality and modalities can be changed by restructuring its overall shape. In this way young children can get to know electronic music production in a playful way.

Alina Giesler (DE)

Inside Paris is an iOS travel application that allows you to experience Paris like a local. The focus is on three districts each with a distinct personality: the artsy Montmartre, the hip area around the Canal Saint Martin and the stylish Marais. With Inside Paris unique places, special moments and conversations with locals create an unforgettable experience of the city.

Laura Haase (DE)

Lead your wolves across a harsh, prehistoric world and ensure their survival! Hunt for food, gather resources and fight other predators but keep an eye on the season, terrain and moon cycle. Wolfszeit is a hand-crafted, mission based board game that lets the player delve into a fantastic, foreign world.

Vivien Bardosi (DE)

beauty(never)fades is an AR application that visualizes the perception of feminine beauty from ancient times until today. Using an iPad or iPhone the viewer experiences an exciting journey through time by encountering different virtual characters that be observed in detail by moving around the exhibition area.

Leonard Schulz (DE)

Out in the Dark is a mixed-media installation in combination with a music video. A wooden sculpture is used as a mapping object and as a stage-set for a performance. Animations merge with shadow-play and blur the boundaries between real and virtual space. The resulting installation allows the viewer to become part of this creative process.

Marco Richtsfeld (DE)

2D-Zellkomplex is an object that moves automatically to the music. The frequency values are transmitted to the servos, which move the panels of the 2D-Zellkomplex accordingly. Lights in the structure illuminate it from within, and are seen when the panels are moved outwards.

Wacker Neuson (AT), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Driving a six-ton earthmover using only the power of your mind or your eyes? What seems like science fiction has been made a true-to-life fact by the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s joint venture with Wacker Neuson, a manufacturer of heavy-duty construction equipment.