We’re currently preparing for The Future of the Lab, an international expert meeting taking place here at BALTAN from November 30-December 2 to explore the roles and forms of the laboratory of the future.

On November 30th, from 17:00-19:30 at BALTAN Laboratories we will officially open The Future of the Lab with a public program. Horst Hörtner, Director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, Austria, will give a keynote lecture to launch the event, which will be followed by an artistic programme organised by BALTAN Laboratories. The artistic programme will feature some work produced at BALTAN over the past year by artists Telcosystems, Michelle Teran, Geert Mul, Wendy Ann Mansilla and Jordi Puig, and Maurer United Architects.

Practical information

Date: Monday, November 30, 2009
Time: 17:00 – 19:30
Location: BALTAN Laboratories, SWA building, 8th floor, Strijp-S (entrance via Kastanjelaan). Directions here.
Public Transport: Bus 401, 402 or 18 from Station Eindhoven CS, stop Kastanjelaan.
Entree: Free
Language: English

Biography Horst Hörtner

Horst Hörtner is a media artist and researcher. He is an expert in design of Human Computer Interaction and holds several patents in this field. Hörtner was a founding member of the Ars Electronica Futurelab in 1996 and since then is directing this atelier/laboratory. He started to work in the field of media art in the 1980s and co-founded the media art group x-space in Graz (Austria) in 1990. Horst Hörtner is working in the nexus of art & science and giving lectures and talks at numerous international conferences and universities.

ARS ELECTRONICA FUTURELAB (LINZ, AUSTRIA)

Since its very inception, Ars Electronica’s focus has been on the tension and interplay at the nexus of art, technology and society. Formulating and implementing the future manifestations of this interaction is the chosen mission of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The approach to content and to doing a job that has been developed by the Futurelab, Ars Electronica’s media art R&D lab, brings together these two concepts in a single workplace that combines the analytical and experimental aspects of a laboratory with the artistry and creativity of an atelier. The result is a space in which the tone is set by activities of transdisciplinary teams and which, depending on the demands of a particular assignment, is continually being reconfigured as a lab-atelier or atelier-lab. Here, these two opposites blend into a way of approaching projects that is most decidedly different from classical working models. The conceptual core can be found in an artistic-creative way of dealing with substantial possibilities of interlinking technologies and content. This is the result of the diversity of the team members involved in and contributing knowhow to the particular project, and this diversity, in turn, brings forth, above all, synergies issuing from highly specialized hybrid disciplines including those leading-edge fields that have not yet gotten established in academia.

Tags: ars electronica, collaboration, flick flock, future, Geert Mul, laboratory, maurer united architects, Michelle Teran, research, telcosystems, The City is Creative

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