Creative Future Lab

Ulrich Formann (b. 1996) is an award winning multidisciplinary conceptual media artist from Vienna, Austria. Currently, he’s completing his PhD in Computational Media & Art at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou.

In his research projects and installations, he digitally explores the interconnections between economy, society and climate and translates these topics into physical space. His diploma project "Slotmachine - Tracking Europe's Ghost Flights" at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he previously also has been a lecturer, was honoured with the Austrian State Prize.

His projects are developed in close collaboration with researchers from institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena or the University of Vienna. His projects have been shown internationally from Portugal to China at numerous festivals such as Ars Electronica, in art centres like the Vienna Secession or the Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, in whose collection he is also represented.

Through coding, reverse engineering and hardware hacking, he seeks to explore the limits and flip sides of modern technologies and their impact on societies on a finite planet.