Ars Electronica Open Call: Future Innovators Summit 2017

Ars Electronica Open Call: Future Innovators Summit 2017

The Ars Electronica Festival is rapidly approaching. This year’s theme is Artificial Intelligence – The Other I. Location: Linz, Austria. Dates: September 7-11, 2017. Now, we seek creative thinkers with interesting ideas and projects and a desire to confront challenging issues at the 2017 Future Innovators Summit!

OPEN CALL to Artists, Scientists, Educators, Researchers, Engineers, Entrepreneurs & Future Innovators FESTIVAL

This is the fourth time that the Future Innovators Summit is being held during theArs Electronica Festival. We are currently recruiting motivated participants who want to join this Mission of Tomorrow. What is the Future Innovators Summit (FIS)? FIS is a creative system designed to engender ideas and prototypes for the future. Experts, outstanding artists, designers, scientists and visionary thinkers from all over the world will convene for four days during the festival to discuss ideas and formulate creative questions having to do with three main themes: Future Humanity Future Work Future Home Last year’s Summit brought 24 Future Innovators from throughout the world to POSTCITY, our extraordinary festival location in Linz, Austria, where they engaged in creativity-enhancing encounters with Future Humanity, Future Education and Future Commons. To find out exactly what that means, check out the check out the teaserand/or the complete documentary of last year’s festival. Maybe we’re looking for YOU! This open call targets leading-edge thinkers who have creative ideas and projects (in development, work-in-progress, recently completed) that are relevant to the main themes of FIS 2017. Interested? Apply now to take part in the FUTURE INNOVATORS SUMMIT at the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival! For detailed info about the requirements, go tohttps://www.aec.at/ai/de/fis/. Application deadline: July 17, 2017 Read more in our current Blog interview with Future Innovators Summit project director Hideaki Ogawa.