The research project BackMeUp deals with the advantages and disadvantages of Cloud Storage – the outsourcing of personal data on external servers on the internet, as it is done millions of times on facebook, Dropbox, webmail accounts, iCloud, and many other online services. For a period of two years, the project team will investigate the [...]

In the context of the project Smart City Linz, supported by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is currently on its way to Linz in the year 2050. The members of the Smart City Linz consortium—the Futurelab, the City of Linz, Linz Strom GmbH, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austrian Energy Agency [...]

Ars Wild Card is an iPhone application developed by Ars Electronica Linz as a participative workshop tool for exhibitions and interventions in public spaces. This application and QR codes assigned to each exhibited project make it possible to generate content about the works on display in a frame with which installation visitors can photograph the [...]

Smart Information Campus was developed in the course of the Digital Graffiti research project which is carried out in cooperation of the University of Linz, Siemens Corporate Technology Munich and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It is an information system for students and university staff at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, which enables different networking possibilities [...]