The Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy, a part of the Futurelab Education Initiative, was created to support students and educators from international partner universities to engage in transdisciplinary practice. Participants come from a range of backgrounds; art and design through to science, engineering and technology. Long-time collaborator Queensland University of Technology joined the Futurelab again in a large-scale format. At the same time, a new collaboration was forged with the Media Lab Helsinki, part of Aalto University, itself a vision of interdisciplinary futures.
| THU Sept. 6, 2018, 4 PM – 5 PM | Presentation: Journeys (I) |
| FRI Sept. 7, 2018, 4 PM – 5 PM | Presentation: Projects (I) |
| SUN Sept. 9, 2018, 4 PM – 5 PM | Presentation: Projects (II) |
| MON Sept. 10, 2018, 4 PM – 5 PM | Presentation: Journeys (II) |
AIWA
Queensland University of Technology (AU)
Artificial Intelligence With Attitude (AIWA): a digital assistant capable of self awareness and critical thinking. We'll be happy if you beta tested AIWA.
The living threshold - Blindphones
Andrea Mancianti (IT)
Blindphones is an experimental prototype for an alternative low-tech head-mounted display which enhances listening by impairing sight.
Dilate
Queensland University of Technology (AU)
Dilate is an interactive wearable that responds to human data; dilating, pulsating and expanding.
Klangschlange
Queensland University of Technology (AU)
Klangschlange is a playful, social sonic intervention investigating future entertainment and technologies to facilitate a state of group Flow.
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture (FI)
Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy @Media Lab Helsinki
In 2018 the “Systems of Representation” course began to take a more hybrid labs approach. We focused on combining media design skills and knowledge about the cultural and social basis of artefacts with 3D fabrication technologies.
We explored the topic of Vestigiality and Evolution in Human Fashion and pondered the possibility of creating audio transmission devices that provide the type of functionality to the human ear that other primates possess and which is conjectured to have been part of our biological inheritance. We investigated the creative potential of bio-cellulose and developed concepts and lightweight prototypes of headphone and audio transmission devices.
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Queensland University of Technology (AU)
Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy @QUT
The Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy at the Queensland University of Technology affords students the opportunity to situate their emergent practice within a rich transdisciplinary context.
Working with peers, researchers, industry, and artists they work through stages of ideation, experimentation, prototyping, pitching and presenting media art works.
The dynamism and culture of the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy enables students to make the transition from highly structured learning environments to professional practice.
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