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NuForm

2021 - 2023ART+COM Studios and Museum für Naturkunde BerlinNuForm investigated innovative technologies enabling simultaneous physical and virtual presence in museum spaces through a two-year interdisciplinary research collaboration between Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and ART+COM Studios. The project developed prototypical solutions for hybrid museum visits that intertwine digital and physical aspects rather than treating them as parallel realities. Hybrid communication and interaction concepts allow visitors to engage, communicate, and discuss exhibits whether wandering through the museum building or participating from home on their computer.Using specific case studies, the project identified individual factors and mechanisms constituting different types of museum experience, analyzing these components to develop new formats of knowledge communication that work under Covid-19 restrictions while signifying lasting innovations in cultural encounter communication. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).



Qurator (AI-Powered Curatorial Technologies)

2018-2023
ART+COM Studios, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), multiple research and industry partners including DFKI, Fraunhofer FOKUS

The QURATOR project developed a sustainable and innovative technology platform providing services to support knowledge workers across various industries in addressing challenges they face when curating digital content. ART+COM developed AI-based tools including systems based on Named Entity Recognition to extract information from texts, mapping them to interactive Wikidata visualizations displaying entities and relations as knowledge graphs. The research produced Image Garden, an AI-based toolbox for curating collections and designing smart exhibitions that enables curators to process image collections according to different search criteria on visual levels while linking objects to real-world knowledge such as Wikidata.

Key innovations included Natural Language Processing and context-aware semantic-driven data visualization enriched with world knowledge, empowering knowledge workers in complex iterative research. The project outcomes directly led to AI-powered exhibits for future-themed national museums including Futurium, the Bauhaus Museum, and the Groote Museum in Amsterdam. With a consortium of ten partners from research and industry, the project established an ecosystem for content curation technologies.

Parametrische (T)Raumgestaltung — Parametric Dream-Room Design

2013
ART+COM Studios, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin , GRAFT Architects,  PhilipsThis intensive care unit redesign created two pilot-program intensive care rooms at Campus Virchow-Klinikum Charité where the visual environment can be adapted to patient conditions through a three-year collaborative research and development project. The central innovation is a large-format curved screen above the bed built with Philips using 4000 LEDs, including RGB and high-powered white LEDs with 20,000 lux illuminance approximating daylight brightness.
ART+COM developed parametric media content based on scientific findings to help patients reorient after surgery or coma, featuring natural phenomena that connect patients to the outside world. 


Key innovations included day-night rhythm simulation promoting natural sleep and protection against delirium, with screen colors simulating 24-hour light spectrum and incorporating weather patterns plus cognitive stimulation through moving birds and contrails. Variable visualizations based on natural processes can be parametrically adjusted by medical personnel through a tablet interface using patient data. 
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, winning first prize in Design & Health Management competition in 2012.