ArtLab

Data-driven app brings 'voice of the visitor' to museum experiences

Published:17.09.20 — EPFL’s Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), led by Sarah Kenderdine, has received support from Engagement Migros to produce muse, a pioneering audience evaluation app, in collaboration with over 20 Swiss museums. The tool provides visitors with an engaging way to communicate their experiences, while helping museums to consider this feedback when developing exhibits and other attractions.

ArtLab to host four nights of open-air cinema

Published:11.09.20 — Following a time of cultural scarcity, ArtLab is celebrating the start of the new academic year with GIFF PLUG x EPFL ARTLAB: an open-air cinema at the heart of the EPFL campus. Four evenings of screenings under the stars will be presented, with a customized program prepared by the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF). These screenings are free and open to all, but registration is required.

A photographic exhibition captures ‘Hope' at ArtLab

Published:01.09.20 — From September 4th-October 4th, EPFL’s ArtLab will host a photographic exhibition devoted to finalists of the coveted, international 2019 Prix Pictet in photography and sustainability.

"We want to create a narrative out of all the heterogeneous data"

Published:04.08.20 — Summer series: A calling for research. Sarah Kenderdine, head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology in the College of Humanities, has spent the last four years tracing, photographing, and digitally reconstructing the seldom-told story of Buddhism’s maritime spread across Asia.

Photos, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Published:10.06.20 — Culture returns at ArtLab: a glimmer of hope

Creating cultural experiences for a post-pandemic society

Published:19.05.20 — A new interdisciplinary project, hosted by the UNIL-EPFL Center for Digital Humanities (dhCenter), aims to develop digital tools and practices to help museums, music festivals, and theaters continue to operate – and even thrive – in an age of social distancing.

CDH welcomes visiting professor Jeffrey Shaw

Published:21.04.20 — EPFL’s College of Humanities (CDH) is pleased to collaborate with renowned new media artist Jeffrey Shaw, who will adapt his visiting professorship to accommodate confinement measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Delving into self-consciousness at EPFL

Published:21.02.20 — What if the key to conveying complex scientific concepts like self-consciousness was to bring art and science together? From 25 February to 1 March, EPFL ArtLab will play host to the Immersive Lab, which offers visitors an interactive, multisensory experience.

A conversation with EPFL's artist-in-residence, Nora Al-Badri

Published:19.11.19 — Nora Al-Badri talks about her unique work at the intersection of art, artificial intelligence, and cultural heritage. She is the first artist in a new residency program administered by the College of Humanities (CDH), and operationalized by ArtLab, which will host an exhibition of Al-Badri’s work next year.

Infinity Room 2: EPFL's 50 years in eight installations

Published:14.11.19 — Infinity Room 2 is the second chapter of a two-part exhibition at ArtLab in honor of EPFL’s 50th anniversary this year. Eight installations, ranging from the photographic to the augmented, provide an interactive experience of the school’s academic, cultural, and architectural evolution, and bring a new dimension to institutional archives.