Maxlab strives to create a research environment where artistic researchers have the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technology and collaborate with technological experts. This is done as much as possible on a transdisciplinary level, where artistic and technological researchers do not function as separate entities but work together towards a common goal, combining their knowledge, methods, and practices to generate new forms of knowledge, methods, and practices. Researchers from Maxlab and the Immersive Lab of AP University College actively seek common ground as a basis for this transdisciplinary collaboration.
In addition to facilitating such a research environment, Maxlab is, for the first time this year, inviting an artist-researcher for a short residency within the Maxlab/Immersive Lab ecosystem. This residency aims to inject new ideas regarding methods and practices into the further development of a transdisciplinary framework. The residency will focus on the human and social dimensions of technological advancements, such as artificial intelligence, media architecture, interactive technologies, new aesthetic forms of expression, and their impact on the future of society.
(image: illustration student project "Portals().Rebirth" by students Miks Vigni (Jewelry Design), Bavo Debraekeleer (Electronics-ICT), Sonia Gupta (Electronics-ICT), Andreas Baert (Graphic Design), George Kvartskhava (Journalism) and Paula Padilla (Journalism).)