7 October 2021 sees the start of the Netflix miniseries “The Billion Dollar Code”. Made up of four episodes, it was written by Oliver Ziegenbalg and directed by Robert Thalheim. As mentioned in the opening credits, the series is based on a “true story” that is in fact a key part of ART+COM history: it[···]

ART+COM co-founder, board member and creative director Joachim Sauter has passed away at the age of 62 Hardly any other designer from recent decades has influenced media design and media art in such a way as Joachim Sauter. He is considered to be a forerunner in his field and a pioneer in new media. He[···]

Yesterday, we lost our co-founder, mentor and dear friend of many years. Joachim inspired us for 33 years, gave ART+COM a face and played a key role in our success story from the very beginning. As early as the eighties, he put digital technology to use as a tool and medium. He carried out pioneering work[···]

January 2021 saw the launch of the “NuForm” joint research project between ART+COM and Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde. Over a two-year period, this project, which is being funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research, will develop and test new forms and formats of interpersonal communication. The aim is to change museum exhibition experiences[···]

Berlin’s Futurium opens tonight, and with it a unique and expansive permanent exhibition that explores our potential futures from different areas of life––from self-sufficient cities, to the future of work and ideas for more sustainable consumption. Visitors can experience visions of the future on over 3,000 m2 in three large “thinking spaces”––humans, nature and technology.[···]

Visitors to Qatar Foundation’s (QF’s) Visitor Center can now explore Doha’s Education City through an AR-based application. The Visitor Center is located on the eighth floor of building 2015 (QF Headquarters). The space offers a panoramic view of over 12 square kilometres of the campus, which houses multiple educational and research institutes. Visitors are able[···]

Last Saturday, the Goldkammer Frankfurt was opened to the public. In the underground rooms of the museum building, more than 500 exhibits span a cultural-historical period of about 6,000 years: from the formation of gold in space and its significance as a status symbol in various cultures to its use as a means of exchange and[···]

Since the end of last year, we have been working on QURATOR, a research project focused on supporting knowledge workers and editors curating digital content. The goal is to facilitate more productive use of the growing masses of digitized, networked information and to use automation to help curate it more efficiently and cost-effectively. Funded by[···]

On De­cem­ber 1, a new ex­hi­bi­tion by the Ice­landic Mu­seum of Natural His­tory was opened by Ice­landic pres­i­dent Guðni Th. Jóhan­nes­son and prime min­is­ter Katrín Jakobsdóttir. “Water in Ice­landic Na­ture” aims to awaken in­ter­est and ad­mi­ra­tion for the na­ture of water and in­form­ visitors of its won­ders and im­por­tance for the fu­ture pros­per­ity of so­ci­ety.[···]

Sensors give machines and other things the ability to detect and measure, and so to “feel” and to “sense.” Everyday objects with embedded sensors such as smartphones, cars, clothing, household technologies, toys, etc., seem to be charged with an “artificial sensitivity.” Interactions between humans and their smart machines, environments and things are supplemented, supported and[···]

BewARe is a research project focussed on enhancing physical training for senior hypertonia patients with the help of Augmented Reality. In collaboration with project partners, ART+COM Studios is developing a prototype application that uses sensor and Augmented Reality technology to create a movement and mobility training programme with gamification aspects for seniors suffering from high[···]

Changi Airport‘s Terminal 4 (T4), that has been operating since end of October 2017, was declared officially open on August 4th, 2018. Together with the Changi team, ART+COM studios’ Head of Design, Joachim Sauter, and Vice Creative Director, Jussi Ängeslevä, celebrated the official launch of our artwork Petalclouds. They were the leading designers of the[···]

30 years lie between the founding of ART+COM in September 1988 and now. The beginning stages were extremely exciting—during the time, when the language of the new digital media was first explored and formulated. Our 30th anniversary is a great occasion to delve into our archive and conduct some media archeology. We want to relate[···]

Officially launched in November 2017, the hotel Silks Club houses the kinetic installation Dancing Particles in the ground floor lobby. The artwork was designed by ART+COM Studios. Recently, Silks Club won the Best Cutting-edge Design Award and was the only winner from Taiwan in 2018. The 9th Best D.E.S.I.G.N. Hotels Award ceremony, a prestigious award[···]

In 2015, ART+COM Studios won a competition to create a second large-scale project at Singapore’s Changi Airport. The result is Petalclouds, a 200-meter long kinetic installation, which has been running since last week. The motion of six light sculptures is generatively choreographed with an Ólafur Arnalds composition that can be heard throughout Terminal 4. Air[···]

The Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel, opened in November to a huge media response. Visitors can engage with several exhibits designed by us—interactive media stations illustrating historical artifacts from various epochs and cultures. ART+COM Studios is also part of the team currently working on the National Museum of Qatar, another Nouvel-designed building. Two-hundred[···]

On December 10, 2017, the Jewish Museum Berlin will open its new temporary exhibition “Welcome to Jerusalem.” Our media installation Augmented Temple is one of the highlights in the exhibition. It gives a vivid impression of the Herodian Temple between 20 B.C. and 70 A.D., its structure and function. In the exhibition which juxtaposes Jerusalem’s[···]

This spring, Joachim Sauter, our artistic director was a fellow of Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo. During his stay, he worked on a kinetic installation that is now and for the first time presented at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Chronos XXI is a pictorial meditation about the constant rhythm of existence and uses AI for image generation.[···]

At the end of March, the Product Info Center (PIC) at BMW Welt was reopened with a completely new design by ART+COM Studios. The PIC invites customers, who collect a new automobile at BMW Welt, to a personal introduction to their new car by BMW specialists. The new dynamic architecture with its meandering wall structure,[···]

With our new project, we fly at higher game: out of 12 international companies, the Danish Nature Agency chose us to design an exhibition about migratory birds in Skagen, Denmark. The Bird Observatory will be an international communication and research centre for both common visitors and professional bird experts, housed in Skagen’s historic Grey Lighthouse.[···]

Last Saturday, Micropia was awarded for most innovative museum by European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA). The ceremony took place in San Sebastián, Spain. From among 49 nominees, Micropia was selected for the highest recognition, the Kenneth Hudson Award — a prize which is given in recognition of the most unusual and daring achievement[···]

Our studio is heading in new directions with the ART+COM Explore lab: located outside our main studio, the lab will spend four months researching the future of media spaces and will share its process and results with experts and the public. With Raphaël de Courville, who runs ART+COM Explore, product designer Javier Díaz aka Edokoa,[···]

Our next major project is just around the corner: a joint endeavour with facts and fiction agency and the Haus der Zukunft team to design a permanent ‘liquid’ exhibition, and set up a space for real-time experimentation in the ‘Reallabor.’ The future is not set in stone. It can be influenced, shaped and created. Haus[···]

The Arts and Creative Technology Center (ACT) in Gwangju, South Korea starts its program on November 25 with the first edition of ACT Festival – Tektonics, a four-day event that combines a symposium, a performance, a workshop program and an extensive exhibition. The show presents the installation RGB|CMYK Kinetic which will be on display for six month[···]

We have reached the point where, if you have the means, you can have a high-tech smart home built right now. It would, however, still be a one-off project, with solutions developed for a single person and property. You can’t yet drop into a DIY store and buy all the bits and pieces you would[···]

Following two-and-half years of renovations, Royal Jelling re-opens to visitors on the sixth of June. A new exhibition space of 1000 square metres now spans the existing structure and new extension. UNESCO World Heritage listed Jelling, with its rune stones and burial mounds, is one of the most important cultural-historical sites in Denmark. The Royal[···]

In response to the many requests that reached us: No, it wasn’t us. For those who did not see it: “Kinetische Skulpturen” were a central element of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest’s stage design. The ‘creator’ of the so-called ‘Kugelballett’, Florian Wieder, is based in Munich, where our Kinetic Sculpture is part of the permanent[···]

Sónar and the Sorigué Foundation will premiere the monumental audiovisual installation RGB|CMY Kinetic created by us for SonarPLANTA. RGB|CMY Kinetic is both a sculpture suspended in the air and a choreography of light, with its roots in two important traditions of the twentieth century: kinetic art and light art. The piece consists of five reflective[···]

What if you could enter a museum and immediately interact with the exhibits from your own smartphone? What if you could do it without installing or configuring an app? For some time now, ART+COM research has been exploring the seamless integration of spatial media and mobile devices. Our team is researching ways to let passers-by[···]

Les Bains, a legendary nightclub and international party scene hot spot in the 1980s and 90s is currently enjoying a soft launch after its redevelopment into a hotel, restaurant and club. ART+COM Studios has created a site-specific installation for an extraordinary space in the renovated Les Bains. The sculpture, which brings to mind an exploded[···]

We participated in the first UAE Drones for Good Award with the Archeodrone concept. ART+COM Studios developed the idea for the drone’s cultural use together with the Danish media company Redia. Although we were not among the lucky winners in the end, we believe that the Archeodrone is a great tool for immediate visitor experience[···]

For the production of the digital dioramas at the new Moesgaard Museum, seven physically reconstructed human ancestors were combined with a virtual landscape, enabling the figures to retain their strong physical presence. A look through one of the seven sets of binoculars reveals the humans in their original habitat. Viewers feel as though they are[···]

People usually visit museums and exhibitions in groups, with family, friends, and in school groups. Unfortunately, social cohesion within groups is lost with the classic audio guides currently in use. The Museum App, which I developed as part of my Master’s thesis, makes an exhibition visit into a shared experience. The web app is part[···]

Until mid December, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin shows the exhibition “Schwindel der Wirklichkeit” (Vertigo of Reality) that includes artworks by Marina Abramović, Thomas Demand, Ólafur Eliasson, Valie Export, Harun Farocki, Dan Graham, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Ulrike Rosenbach, Bill Viola and others. ART+COM Studios was invited to present Zerseher, a seminal work[···]

My understanding of ‘prototyping’ is ‘thinking in the world’ or ‘integrating with the word by physical means’. Prototyping is the creation of simplified and abstracted models, which can be used to examine individual aspects of a design. The see the overall complexity and effect of a design ‘purely in thought’ is impossible past the very[···]

At the new Moesgaard Museum visitors literally come face-to-face with the ancestors of the human race. The museum accommodates archaeological and ethnographic exhibitions, special exhibitions, an auditorium, conference rooms and other visitor facilities. The combination of science with new ways of displaying the artefacts and the use of technology is characteristic for the exhibitions of[···]

The Smart Home field has been receiving attention from computer technologists and designers for some time already; the promise within closer reach of consumers every day. And while a smart home is filled with sensors, screens and chips, their presence should be attenuated — technology fades into the background as attention seeking notifications make way[···]

Yesterday a unique museum opened that is set to inspire the general public, encouraging their interest in microorganisms and microbiology: Micropia. The visual and the experiential are central, while the focus is firmly on the mostly positive relationship between microbes and humans. The idea for Micropia came from Haig Balian, Director of Amsterdam’s Natura Artis[···]

WILMINGTON, Delaware, U.S. – The origination of the widely popular application Google Earth is the focus of a patent infringement lawsuit filed on February 20, 2014 by ART+COM Innovationpool GmbH (“ACI”) against Google, Inc. in Delaware Federal Court. In the lawsuit, ACI, which is a spin off of ART+COM AG, charges that Google Earth products[···]