My residency at The Cube concluded last month with the opening of my piece The Changing Room. How would you like to feel? What if you could make it happen with a touch of a screen? What would you do with complete control over your own emotions and…
Q&A with Lauren McCarthy: Provoking ‘fellow feelings’ in her own way
Ars Electronica Q&A with Lauren McCarthy about her Transmit³-Residency: The Changing Room. Designer, artist and programmer Lauren McCarthy explores the structures and systems of social interaction, identity as well as self-presentation and the potential of technology of how it can influence the dynamics between those traits. During her Transmit³-Residency…
The Cube as a smart social environment
Hi, Lauren here. I’m wrapping up my two month TRANSMIT3 Residency at The Cube and next Thursday 11 August will be the official opening of the new piece I’ve been working on with the team. The event will feature an interactive performance installation in which we dine together…
Turning The Cube into an emotion machine
It’s been a busy few weeks at The Cube. I started with a few workshops with kids thinking about ‘homes of the future’. Participants imagined the toys they’d play with, clothes they’d wear, rules they’d follow, and robots that would serve as caretakers. They learned to code using…
Happy 3rd Birthday
It’s our 3rd birthday and as with most birthdays, it got some of our staff thinking about the year that was. This week we’ll hear from Cube Studio Manager Sean Druitt about some of the team’s highlights from 2015. – The Cube team created and released The Arcade…
The Cube hits Linz for ARS Electronica Festival
Building on The Cube’s ongoing partnership with ARS Electronica, and to celebrate the success of the Soul of the Cube project collaboration, a number of the Cube team were invited to attend this year’s ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. The Cube’s Studio Manager, Sean Druitt, reflects on his awe-inspiring experience at the festival. Sean:…
Introducing Friedrich Kirschner and the Society for Cultural Optimism
The Cube is excited to welcome its newest Ars Electronica Futurelab TRANSMIT³ resident, Friedrich Kirschner, who will be teaming up with the Society for Cultural Optimism to simulate an alternate reality through social interventions, performances and interactive content on The Cube. The Society for Cultural Optimism develops situated social…
TRANSMIT³ Residency: ARS Electronica interview with Zachary Lieberman and Lubi Thomas (Part 3)
In December last year, Zachary Lieberman returned to The Cube to continue work on his project as part of his TRANSMIT³ residency. In this project he aims to present scientific content on the enormous canvas of The Cube, where visitors can use a particular mechanism to zoom the image on the virtual…
Exploring STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics)
A group of teachers from Kelvin Grove State College joined our Public Programs Curator to explore STEAM and we heard from Cube Resident Zach Lieberman.
TRANSMIT³ Residency: ARS Electronica Interview with Lubi Thomas and Zachary Lieberman (Part 1)
Zachary Lieberman, Cube Resident and Lubi Thomas, QUT Senior Curator – digital media, talk to ARS Electronica about what inspired them about this project. Lubi, what do you think is special about TRANSMIT³, the joint residency Program of QUT and Ars Electronica? What is your perspective on it?…