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Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Expanded Voices: Splitting and Reassembling One Human Voice With AI

Using Maria Arnal's voice as its material, this project explores AI voice synthesis by dividing, recombining, and expanding one vocal identity across the boundaries of body and machine.

AI voicesound artvocal identityArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Evelynn: An Animated AI Character Performing Companionship

An AI chat character with an animated body responds to visitors at Ars Electronica, placing the intimacy, performance, and uncertainty of companion-like agents in the foreground.

AI charactervirtual companioninteractive artArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Emanatio Digitalis: Intimacy and Autonomy Across AI and Neurotechnology

This Berlin University of Applied Sciences campus exhibition uses AI, neural interfaces, and immersive simulation to discuss intimacy, identity, and autonomy, including both creative possibilities and loss-of-control risks.

neurotechnologyAI artimmersive mediaArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Dystopia Land: A Sweet and Uneasy AI Future Park

This 2025 Ars Electronica work combines generative AI, games, and Japanese popular culture into a bright but disturbing future amusement park where technological optimism collides with social anxiety.

generative artgame culturedystopiaArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Divine Machinery: An AI Machine That Changes Mood When Touched

Visitors touch a personified AI machine that responds by changing emotion, sound, animation, and light, shifting the relationship from issuing commands to living with a temperamental character.

emotional AIinteractive machinerobotic artArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Digital Shadows: Meet the Double Built From Your Face and Data

Visitors encounter a digital double that is copied, measured, and analyzed, turning the data power behind facial recognition, deepfakes, and algorithmic profiling into an experiential theater.

digital doublefacial recognitiondeepfakeArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Digital Deities: The Spirit of Restoration

Visitors' images are transformed by AI and merged with forms of Taiwanese deities, generating a new character between digital double, folk belief, and a ritual of restoration.

digital identityTaiwanese deitiesAI portraitArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Cybernetic Subjects: Making Feedback Between People, AI, and Ecology Visible

This group exhibition begins with contemporary cybernetics and examines how people, AI, and ecological systems continuously affect one another, turning abstract automation loops into art objects.

cyberneticssystems artAI and ecologyArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Corpus Corax: A Dinner Conversation Between Humans and Ravens

This 2025 Ars Electronica work imagines a real-time human-to-raven translator using natural-language processing and generated sound, placing interspecies communication around a shared meal.

interspecies communicationgenerative soundNLPArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Co-Creator: An AI Art Machine That Asks Who Owns the Result

Shown at Ars Electronica in 2025, Co-Creator is an interactive installation presented with the visual language of a vending machine. It uses AI and machine learning to produce personalized images while raising questions about authorship, ownership, and trust.

interactive installationAI artauthorshipArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk: A Voice Artist Duets With His AI Double

Voice artist Jaap Blonk performs alongside an AI vocal avatar trained on his material, using imitation, displacement, and improvisation to ask who owns a recognizable voice.

AI voicesound performancevoice rightsArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

ASTER+S > ART ^ NEUROSCIENCE: Memory, Emotion, and AI on Campus

This international campus exhibition at Ars Electronica brings neuroscience-inspired art, memory research, and AI together through sensory works about emotion, uncertainty, and systemic pressure.

art and scienceneuroscienceAI artArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

AI Facial Profiling, Levels of Paranoia

A camera assigns visitors absurd threat levels based on facial features. By making its classifications deliberately unreliable, the installation exposes the bias behind automated profiling and AI physiognomy.

facial recognitionalgorithmic biassurveillance artArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Dream Collector: Turn Fragmented Dreams into Images

Describe fragments of a dream and the artwork generates three visual interpretations; its installation also lets visitors uncover and browse a shared archive with hand gestures.

AI artdreamsgesture interactioninstallation

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

a terrarium: Give a Tiny AI Society a God Prompt

AI characters build, farm, remember, and form routines across a miniature landscape while visitors enter prompts that can reshape the small society from above.

generative agentsminiature worldAI installationsimulation

Idea LabAdded Aug 29, 2026

Robots Start Working as a Team with Gemini Watching the Video

Google DeepMind demonstrates embodied robots whose model continuously watches video to track progress, direct Spot to fetch snacks, and coordinate different robots through multi-step tasks.

AI experimentopen projectrobotsAI media

Idea LabAdded Aug 29, 2026

Claude Spent the Night Taming a Quantum Computer’s Lasers

QuEra gave Claude access to a real laser test bench through MHS. It created faults, read instruments, revised control logic, and ultimately turned the reset procedure into a standalone program.

AI experimentopen project

Idea LabAdded Aug 26, 2026

Zizi & Me: A Drag Performer Shares the Stage with an AI Double

Jake Elwes and Me the Drag Queen co-created and performed a deepfake double act in which the real performer and a synthetic version of her body compete across music, dance, and theatre.

AI experimentopen projectAI mediasynthetic media

Idea LabAdded Aug 26, 2026

Tangible Dreams: Twist Physical Knobs to Shape a Neural Network’s Dreams

A set of physical knobs, switches, and cables directly controls a CPPN neural network, letting visitors reshape projected generative forms like a synthesizer without writing prompts.

AI experimentopen projectdigital art