INSIGHT
Instinct
An event that brings curious minds together
Keywords: future designs, social impact, idea exchange
Who?
Ars Electronica Linz GmbH & Co KG consists of the operational divisions Ars Electronica Festival-Prix-Exhibitions, Ars Electronica Center, Ars Electronica Futurelab, AE Solutions and Corporate Services
What?
The Futurelab is a laboratory and atelier for future systems. As the think-and-do tank of the Ars Electronica, it always places humans at the center of research, considering the social aspects of technological developments such as artificial intelligence, robotics, media architecture, interactive technologies, new aesthetic forms of expression or swarm intelligence and their effects on the future of society. At the interface of art, technology, and society, it creates visions, which are realized for the public, together with partners from fields of business, culture, research, and education.
Why?
The Ars Electronica Futurelab networks and discusses the methods of creativity and technology to accompany this development shaping future trends and visions. It develops new concepts for an autonomous future society in an inspiring field of tension between disciplines and transnational cooperation.
Calling up to social participation and responsible creativity.
Results
With tangible future visions and artistic explorations it is humanizing technologies and novelizing cultural experiences, calling up to social participation and responsible creativity. All concepts and designs for the future are the result of many successful collaborations with art and culture, educational institutions, industries and businesses.
The first Ars Electronica began in 1979. Twenty international artists and scientists gather at this new “Festival for Art, Technology and Society” in Linz to discuss the Digital Revolution and its possible consequences. The Ars Electronica is small, but groundbreaking.
The initiative came from Hannes Leopoldseder, director of the Upper Austria regional studio of the Austrian Broadcasting Company (ORF), who is passionate about everything that has to do with the future. Together with electronic musician Hubert Bognermayr, music producer Ulli A. Rützel and cyberneticist and physicist Herbert W. Franke, he lays the foundation for a festival that will become the world’s largest and most important of its kind.
The Ars Electronica Futurelab is a laboratory and atelier for future systems.
The network and team of international artists and scientists in the Ars Electronica Futurelab comes from a wide range of disciplines and is concerned with the development and evaluation of technological innovation. Transdisciplinary research is a proven method to create new future approaches, possibilities, and inspirations and has become a multiplier in the process of developing new social and cultural conventions. The Ars Electronica’s laboratory for innovation and sustainable change pushes the boundaries of what is possible day after day, taking a joint step to the future.
Sources
Ars Electronica Futurelab. 2021. About Ars Electronica Futurelab. [online] Available at: https://ars.electronica.art/futurelab/en/about/ [Accessed 25 March 2022].