Spaxels shape Star Trek – Logo in London’s skyline

The Ars Electronica Futurelab has sent the emblem of the Star Fleet Academy into the nightsky of London after being contacted by Paramount Pictures to create a unique way to promote the upcoming Star Trek – Movie, “Into Darkness”. The technology behind the stunt were the Spaxels which have created quite a buzz during the [...]

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Exhibition opening “Robots. Machine and Human?” at Museum of Technology Vienna

Yesterday, Dr. Claudia Schmied, Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture, opened the exhibition “Robot. Machine and Human?” at the Museum of Technology Vienna. For this exhibition, the Ars Electronica Futurelab developed a new RoboLab which provides a hand-on experience of programming and navigating robots in a playful way. (More info)

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openAIR – Accessibility in Radioproduction

The Ars Electronica Futurelab was recently commissioned by Radio FRO to develop a mixing console that’s operated strictly by push-buttons and thus provides substantially more barrier-free operation of a radio station by people with handicaps. Radio FRO 105.0, Free Radio for Linz (Radio FRO), has been organizing workshops since 2006 at which people with – [...]

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Linz Makes Music

This installation—based on “The Sancho Plan” by the prizewinning British art collective of the same name—is an adventurous combination of animation, sound, music and performance. Installation visitors can use an electronic percussion instrument in real-time interaction between the music and the video to bring extraordinary animated figures to life. “Linz Makes Music” produces audiovisual musical [...]

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