An Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy @ QUT Project
An Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy @ QUT Project
Teaching City is an experiential learning framework highlighting urban issues through playful interactions. It offers an antidote to the industrial-age pedagogy of the classroom, subverting the preconceptions of citizens through “knowledge interventions” embedded in urban spaces—the city is the teacher.
The Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy was created to support students and educators from international partner institutions in transdisciplinary practice. Since 2012, the platform has enabled collaborations between Ars Electronica and universities across the world.
THU 7. 9.
1 PM–1:15 PM
4 PM– 4:15 PM
FRI 8. 9.
1 PM–1:15 PM
4 PM–4:15 PM
SAT 9. 9.
3 PM–3:15 PM
SUN 10. 9.
1 PM–1:15 PM
Supported by:
Associate Producer: Quinty Pinxit-Gregg (AU)
Technical Support: Matthew Strachan (AU),
with special thanks to Jacina Leong and Linda Knight
This project was supported by The Creative Lab, and QUT Creative Industries.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
An Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy @ QUT Project
SynapSense is a performative installation heightening our bodily awareness. Sensorial understanding through enactment is revealed via three modes: explore, calibrate and create. Interaction creates the soundscape—touch enables investigation and sound reflects exploration.
The Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy was created to support students and educators from international partner institutions in transdisciplinary practice. Since 2012, the platform has enabled collaborations between Ars Electronica and universities across the world.
THU 7. 9.
7:20 PM–7:40 PM
9:05 PM–9:25 PM
FRI 8. 9.– SUN 10. 9.
6:40 PM–7:00 PM
MON 11. 9.
1 PM–1:20 PM
3 PM–3:20 PM
7 PM–7:20 PM
Supported by: Artistic Direction: Dr. Stephanie Hutchison (AU); Producer: Quinty Pinxit-Gregg (AU); Technical support: Matthew Strachan (AU); Lighting Design: Glen Hughes (AU)
This project was supported by The Creative Lab, and QUT Creative Industries.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Semiotics of the Laboratory aims to question the symbolic and semantic properties of laboratory practices when they are interpreted at face value—that is, merely through their visual observation, without the narrative that tries to explain their scientific meaning. It is a laboratory observing the interpretation of the laboratory practice itself.
The audience exposed to visually enticing experiments will become part of the artwork. The responses of viewers attempting to piece together the narrative of experiments will be captured and integrated into the visuals and soundscape, gradually adding to the interpretation of activities. The laboratory will feature ongoing experiments such as in vitro fertilization of sea urchins, DNA manipulation, column chromatography of blood lysate, thale cress somatic embryogenesis and light-directed manipulation of the protozoan euglena, and will combine with algorithmic processing.
Authors: Roland van Dierendonck (NL), Špela Petrič (SI), Günter Seyfried (AT), Miha Turšič (SI), Slavko Glamočanin (SI)
Production: Waag Society (NL)
Support: Future Emerging Art and Technology, Ars Electronica