New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers
Today Iron Ox is opening its first production facility in San Carlos, near San Francisco. The 8,000-square-foot indoor hydroponic facility—which is attached to the startup’s offices—will be producing leafy greens at a rate of roughly 26,000 heads a year. That’s the production level of a typical outdoor farm that might be five times bigger. The […]
Interview with Danielle Siembieda
Danielle Siembieda is the Managing Director of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST). Siembieda brings over 15-years of experience in community development and strategic communications. As an active leader in the art, science, and technology community, she has served on the board of the Women Eco Art Dialogue and Emerging […]
Ageing in human cells successfully reversed in the lab
The ability to reverse ageing is something many people would hope to see in their lifetime. This is still a long way from reality, but in our latest experiment, we have reversed the ageing of human cells, which could provide the basis for future anti-degeneration drugs. Ageing can be viewed as the progressive decline in […]
Ford thinks exoskeletons are ready for prime time in its factories
People still build cars. While videos of giant robots welding vehicles are exciting to watch (sparks!), humans are an important part of the assembly of vehicles. However, as you would expect, doing the same thing over and over often leads to injuries. For workers reaching up all day, that motion can be especially hard on […]
Lithium-oxygen batteries are getting an energy boost
A new type of lithium-oxygen battery could pack more energy and last longer than its predecessors. Lithium-oxygen batteries, which are more energy-dense and made of more sustainable materials than typical lithium-ion cells, are promising candidates for the next generation of rechargeable batteries (SN: 1/21/17, p. 22). But lithium-oxygen batteries aren’t widely used yet because they […]
Dal Mediterraneo al Pacifico. Dialoghi attraverso i mari / From the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Dialogues across the seas
Italiano [English below] art*science (https://artscience.online) è una serie di eventi sulle relazioni tra forme espressive, discipline scientifiche e tecnologie volti a riflettere sulla contemporaneità e a produrre idee per immaginare il futuro. Giunto alla seconda edizione, art*science inizia un programma triennale (2018-2020) su tematiche che riguardano il cambiamento climatico e sul ruolo che l’arte può […]
Interview with Freddy Paul Grunert
Freddy Paul Grunert is an artist and associate curator at ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, a research centre and museum that specialises in the study of information technology and its social and cultural repercussions, where he curated among other things, the anthology Francesco Lo Savio – Tano Festa. The Lack of the Other. Grunert studied philosophy and […]
Scentee Machina AI suggests your favorite scent
“Scentee Machina” is the first and smartest room diffuser in the globe, the next generation diffuser equipped with AI technology. So far the diffuser was fragrant weak, cumbersome to manage, only things that bothers busy business people for maintenance. However, with this “Scentee Machina”, all the controls are completely done with your smartphone. The fragrance […]
From Seaweed to Fiber, Is Biology The Future Of Fashion?
Is biology the future of fashion? Well, Algiknit seems to think so. The biomaterials company has been developing biomaterials that can play a key role in the future of sustainable manufacturing. Addressing the ecological damage caused by the fashion industry, Algiknit is looking to make an impact by operating in a closed loop product lifecycle […]
fivewordsforthefuture @ art + b = love (?)
[ITA] fivewordsforthefuture è ospitato al festival “art + b = love (?)”, Ancona, 4-8 Aprile 2018. “Gli studenti del Contamination Lab di Ancona, coordinati da Giuseppe De Maso Gentile, s’interrogano sul futuro intervistando gli artisti e gli speaker del festival sulle cinque parole chiave che lo rappresentano. È FiveWordsForTheFuture, il progetto nato da un’idea […]
The New and History – art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 Proceedings
The book, published by Noema Media & Publishing, collects the proceedings of art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 conference, that took place in Bologna, July 3-5 2017. fivewordsforthefuture has been a media partner of the event.
Streetlights could be replaced by luminescent trees
Roads of the future could be lit by glowing trees instead of streetlamps, thanks to a breakthrough in creating bioluminescent plants. Experts injected specialised nanoparticles into the leaves of a watercress plant, which caused it to give off a dim light for nearly four hours. The chemical involved, which produced enough light to read a […]
Seeing the Beautiful Intelligence of Microbes
Intelligence is not a quality to attribute lightly to microbes. There is no reason to think that bacteria, slime molds and similar single-cell forms of life have awareness, understanding or other capacities implicit in real intellect. But particularly when these cells commune in great numbers, their startling collective talents for solving problems and controlling their […]
New textile weathers temperature shift
Weather changes, but thanks to a new high-tech textile, someday you may not have to switch out your outfit. Materials scientists and engineers at Stanford University have developed a multilayered textile that traps body heat on one side and passively radiates heat away from the body when flipped inside out. The material kept artificial skin […]
Interview with Bruno D’Amore
Italiano [English below] Bruno D’Amore è stato professore ordinario di didattica della matematica per oltre 40 anni presso l’università di Bologna, attualmente insegna e dirige tesi nel dottorato di ricerca in didattica della matematica di un’università a Bogotà (Colombia), dove vive. Ha tre lauree e due dottorati di ricerca, uno dei quali honoris causa. È […]
Jeans that charge your phone? The future of wearable batteries
Our clothing could soon store all the power we need to recharge our phones thanks to a new type of fabric that can hold electricity just like a battery, developed by Deakin scientists. The fabric, called MXene (pronounced ‘Maxine’), is flexible, super-strong, and super-conductive. “Imagine having a shirt that can store energy. You could have […]
Is the future in the countryside?
By Rem Koolhaas The modern world is preoccupied with cities. More than half of mankind is now urban, which has been the pretext for an almost exclusive focus on the city. They are seen as the engines of economy, of emancipation, of the ultimate “lifestyle”. Since “Delirious New York” (1978), I have probably been associated […]
Interview with Elif Ayiter
Elif Ayiter, aka. Alpha Auer. I was trained as a graphic designer, and worked for many years in the graphic design industry as an art director; after which I switched to academia. Nowadays, I teach full time at Sabancı University, Istanbul. My areas of instruction are graphic design, art and computing, theory of creative practice, […]
Bringing Portraits to Life
Abstract We present a technique to automatically animate a still portrait, making it possible for the subject in the photo to come to life and express various emotions. We use a driving video (of a different subject) and develop means to transfer the expressiveness of the subject in the driving video to the target portrait. […]
Predicting the Future and Exponential Growth
“How many times would I have to fold a sheet of paper for the height of the folded paper to reach the moon?” Human beings have terrible intuition for exponential growth. If I asked you how many times you would have to fold a single sheet of US Letter paper to reach the moon, it […]
Interview with Luis Miguel Girão
Luis Miguel Girão founder of Artshare, the NATO Art Expert, is a researcher generating support for EU and Transatlantic policy making in the field of the crossings of art, science and technology. He is a transdisciplinary artist developing applications of technology as tools for artistic expression focusing at the moment on bioelectromagnetism. He is […]
e-Residency
Estonia is the first country in the world to offer an ‘e-Residency‘ to people of any nationality. If you become an e-resident, you get a governmentally issued digital identity like other Estonians, that you can use to set up your own company in Estonia — completely remotely. The program has steadily gained popularity since its […]
A Biodegradable Car
A concept car in the Netherlands is constructed almost entirely of materials the grow in the soil. Called “Lina,” the biodegradable car is the work of students at Eindhoven University of Technology and is composed mainly of sugar beet resin and flax. It weighs in at under 700 pounds and can reach a top speed of […]
Recensione di art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 / Review of art*science 2017/Leonardo 50
[ITA] E’ uscita una bella recensione di art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 di Elena Giulia Rossi su Il Sole 24 Ore del 6 Agosto, che proponiamo di seguito. fivewordsforthefuture era media partner dell’evento. [ENG] Here enclosed a beautiful review of art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 by Elena Giulia Rossi on Il Sole 24 Ore, August 6, which we propose below (in Italian). fivewordsforthefuture […]
Interview with Roberta Buiani
Roberta Buiani is an interdisciplinary artist, media scholar and curator based in Toronto. She is the co-founder of the ArtSci Salon at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Toronto) and a co-organizer of LASER Toronto. Her work explores how scientific and technological mechanisms translate, encode and transform the natural and human world, and […]
Living Light – plants become an energy system
We create a world in which plants become part of our energy system and where technology and nature will merge. ‘Living Light’, a lamp which harvests its energy by the electrons released through bacteria in the soil during the photosynthetic process of the plant. Softly stroking the leafs transforms this ordinary plant into a Living […]
AI Creates Fake Obama
Artificial intelligence software could generate highly realistic fake videos of former president Barack Obama using existing audio and video clips of him, a new study [PDF] finds. Such work could one day help generate digital models of a person for virtual reality or augmented reality applications, researchers say. Computer scientists at the University of Washington previously […]
Interview with Bill Seaman
Seaman’s work often employs an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means— Recombinant Poetics. Such works often explore the combination and recombination of media elements and processes in interactive and generative works of art. Seaman enfolds image/music/text relations in these works, often creating all of the media elements and articulating the operative media-processes involved. […]
The Robotic Kitchen
Moley has created the world’s first robotic kitchen. Featuring an advanced, fully functional robot integrated into a beautifully designed, professional kitchen, it cooks with the skill and flair of a master chef. The prototype was premiered to widespread acclaim at Hanover Messe, the international robotics show. The consumer version set for launch in 2018 will […]
How DNA could store all the world’s data
For Nick Goldman, the idea of encoding data in DNA started out as a joke. It was Wednesday 16 February 2011, and Goldman was at a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, talking with some of his fellow bioinformaticists about how they could afford to store the reams of genome sequences and other data the world was […]
Interview with Roger Malina
Roger Malina is an art-science researcher, astronomer and editor. Distinguished Professor of Arts and Technology and Professor of Physics at the University of Texas, Dallas. He directs the ArtScilab which develops art-science collaborations that lead both to scientific discoveries and intense contemporary art works. The Lab runs initiatives in Experimental Publishing with MIT press […]
fivewordsforthefuture è media partner di art*science 2017 / fivewordsforthefuture is media partner of art*science 2017
Italiano [English below] art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 – Il Nuovo e la Storia / The New and History Bologna, 3-5 Luglio 2017 Factory, via Castiglione, 26 Sala conferenze “Marco Biagi”, Baraccano, via S.Stefano, 119 https://artscience.online https://www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=22 art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 ha il patrocinio di: Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MIBACT), Leonardo/ISAST, […]
Human & Machine: The Next Great Creative Partnership
Artificial Intelligence is embedding itself in every industry across the globe. If the last ten years were about building AI to help automate analytical and process-driven tasks, the next ten will be about building AI to augment creative workers across all disciplines. The field of computational creativity, or creative AI, is growing at a rapid […]
Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Exceed Human Performance
Artificial intelligence is changing the world and doing it at breakneck speed. The promise is that intelligent machines will be able to do every task better and more cheaply than humans. Rightly or wrongly, one industry after another is falling under its spell, even though few have benefited significantly so far. And that raises an […]
Network Earth
The world is a complicated place. Our planet is made up of millions of networks from microscopic ecosystems to global migration. How can we ever hope to understand and predict the complexity of our mulit-networked world? New research may have the answer…
Researchers develop stretchable transparent touchpad
Researchers have developed a highly stretchable touchpad that can be worn on the arm and be used to write words and play electronic games. Scientists from Seoul National University in South Korea published their findings in the latest issue of the journal Science. While various types of conductors such as carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires […]
fivewordsforthefuture è media partner di / fivewordsforthefuture is a media partner of LuminousBees
“[ITA] Dal 20 al 22 Febbraio all’Università di Genova c’è “Interactive Micro Aerial Robots Swarm I-MARS 2017”, conferenze e workshop transdisciplinari con artisti, designer, scienziati, tecnologi. fivewordsforthefuture è partner dell’evento. [ENG] From February 20 to22 will take place at the University of Genoa “Interactive Micro Aerial Robots Swarm I-MARS 2017”, transdisciplinary lectures and workshops involving artists, designers, scientists, technologists. […]
Interview with Pavel Smetana
Pavel Smetana was born in Ústí nad Labem, Bohemia. From 1979-1982 he studied at the Arts and Crafts School in the Prague Žižkov neighborhood. He was not accepted to the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague because of political reasons, which was one of the reasons why he decided to leave for France […]
Dressing inner nature through art
Often, we look at slides under a microscope as a way to observe something that will produce data and support a hypothesis. However, as a person passionate about science and art, I am equally awestruck by the colors, patterns, textures, and sense of order that can be observed on such a small scale. Cerebella Design™ began […]
Ambio, bacterial lamp
Ocean waves glowing blue in the dark of night, anyone who has ever experienced this knows how magical it looks. The phenomenon is caused by bioluminescent micro-organisms in seawater that emit light when provided with oxygen every time a wave turnes. This principle inspired me to combine my passion for design and biology in a […]
CERN-Inspired Outfits Using 3D Printing And Magnets
Fashion designer Iris Van Herpen’s Spring 2015 ready-to-wear collection, Magnetic Motion, looks like it could have been ripped from the pages of a science fiction fantasy. Having previously explored the ideas of synesthesia and living technology, the designer now looks to the power of magnetic fields for inspiration. And not just any magnetic fields, either— van Herpen’s first inklings of the […]
Beyond a shadow of a doubt: Heirloom / AE 16
One of the most impressive Artwork seen at the Ars Electronica Festival 2016 is – beyond a shadow of a doubt – Heirloom by Gina Czarnecki. Pier Luigi Capucci on Nblog, in his article “Alla fine, l’arte / In the end, art” already presented Heirloom between the festival most valuable works. A project that can […]
Il Progetto
FiveWordsForTheFuture nasce per aiutare a riconoscere e capire l'innovazione, a immaginare il futuro nel senso di pensarsi in un tempo possibile, prossimo e concreto.
The Project
FiveWordsForTheFuture has been realized to help people in identifying and understanding innovation. Its aim is to imagine Our Future, through an inquiry into its concrete possibilities and by looking forward to those next, near realities that are going to come.-
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