Nikkei Innovation Lab to Showcase 3D Immersive

Newspaper of the Future at World's Largest MediaArt Festival

September 5, 2022 �Nikkei Innovation Lab, the research and development arm of Nikkei Inc.,

will participate in the Ars Electronica Festival 2022 (September 7-11, 2022), the world's largest
media arts festival. This year, as usual, the event will be held in Linz, Austria. At the festival, Nikkei
Innovation Lab will exhibit DATASPACE, its experiential immersive future newspaper. The work

was produced in collaboration with Ars Electronica Futurelab, the research and development

team of Ars Electronica. The DATASPACE presentation will represent the impact of Russia's

invasion of Ukraine in February of this year in a novel way. A 3D visual representation will beprojected on a large space, 16 meters wide and 9 meters high, based on data such as resourceand stock prices as well as the number of refugees. The presentation will also provide an
opportunity for the public to share their feelings and thoughts about the future.

The DATASPACE presentation can be viewed by following the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNj7XvWyHpA

Working together, Nikkei Innovation Lab and the Ars Electronica Futurelab have been attempting

to envision the newspaper of the future, using their "Art Thinking" method of creative

exploration. They have been tackling questions such as: "What can art and journalism
contribute?�One issue of particular focus has been the ways art and journalism can contributeto the crisis of the Ukraine invasion, which has had an enormous impact on Europe and the world.
DATASPACE invites participants into a unique world of information created entirely from data. It
communicates news through artistic expressions based on data, and it encourages a series ofactions: "feeling," "thinking," "questioning," and "dialogue.�This approach has been called"artistic journalism," and it is being presented as a new form of media expression.

For more information on this year's Ars Electronica Festival, please visit the official website.
DATASPACE will be accessible there on September 7 and 8.
https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/en/
About Ars Electronica

Ars Electronica is a collective name for the Ars Electronica Festival, an international media arts
festival; the Ars Electronica Center, a cultural and educational facility; and the Ars ElectronicaFuturelab, a research and development division. It is run by a public corporation funded by thecity of Linz, Austria's third largest municipality, as an institution tasked with envisioning thefuture under the theme of "Art, Technology, and Society.�The media art festival is held every

September in Linz, where it explores the transversal expression of art, technology, and science.

The festival also honors individuals, works, and projects that have been innovative in media art

each year, and its highest award, the Golden Nica Award, is also known as the "Oscar of thecomputer world".

About Nikkei Innovation Lab

Nikkei Innovation Lab is a research and development organization of Nikkei Inc. Its objective isto lead the Nikkei Group into the future with various types of knowledge and creative ideas
concerning the most advance technologies, and to generate innovations that contribute tosociety at large. It will continue to conduct research and development covering a wide range ofareas, including artificial intelligence research applying the latest academic theories, VR, and themetaverse domain.

About Nikkei

Nikkei Inc. is a world-renowned media brand for Asian news, respected for quality journalism and for being a trusted

provider of business news and information. Founded as a market news provider in Japan in 1876, Nikkei has grown into
one of the world�
s largest media corporations, with 37 foreign editorial bureaus and approximately 1,500 journalists

worldwide. Nikkei acquired the UK-based Financial Times in 2015. Our combined digital and print circulation totals over
2.5 million, and we are continually deploying new technologies to increase our readership.
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