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Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy 2018

QUT Creative Industries students in the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy challenge the influence of art with conceptual works and applications for future technologies.

Students from a range of Creative Industries disciplines take their collaborative projects to Linz, Austria to participate in internationally renowned media arts festival – Ars Electronica. 

Follow their journey below. 

Team DILATE reflect on their whole project

Team Soundline at Ars Electronica

Team AIWA at Ars Electronica

Team AIWA receive further funding

Creative Industries graduates behind the creation of AIWA have received the 2019 Dr John and Mrs Gerri Puttick Award for Student Artistic Development. 

From left, Creative Industries Associate Dean Gavin Sade, Team AIWA, Drama Lecturer Kathryn Kelly and Creative Lab Director Louis-Philippe Demers with the device
Merryn Trescott explains the AIWA project leaing up to receiving the 2019 Dr John and Mrs Gerri Puttick Award for Student Artistic Development.
The whole team explain their concepts for advancing their project upon receiving the 2019 Dr John and Mrs Gerri Puttick Award for Student Artistic Development.
Industrial Design graduate Zhiheng He delves into the process behind designing the look and feel of AIWA upon receiving the 2019 Dr John and Mrs Gerri Puttick Award for Student Artistic Development.
AIWA project leader Thomas Stig pitches ideas for advancement with fellow team member Nicholas Dunning upon receiving the 2019 Dr John and Mrs Gerri Puttick Award for Student Artistic Development.
Salvatore Fazio reflects on how the project was received at Ars Electronica upon receiving the 2019 Dr John and Mrs Gerri Puttick Award for Student Artistic Development.

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The team will use the funding, up to $25,000, to further develop the concept and enhance the experience for those who have interacted with the project. Keep up to date with AIWA here.

Learn more about the award and QUT Creative Lab. 

Futurelab Academy teams set up for the festival

Futurelab Academy teams bump out of The Block

 

Read, in-depth, about the opportunity for QUT Creative Industries students. 

Learn more about how QUT was involved in 2017.