What will our future look like? This bold question formed the basis of this year’s digital conference “Interactive Cologne.” The organizers of the festival asked us to develop an interactive event, as an entertaining yet thought provoking item on the agenda, that would highlight this year’s topic in diverse ways. With “Beats and Bytes“ we’ve explored how the party of the future might look like. Our focus: data. With the help of Dr. Daniel S. Margulies, who examines "Flow" conditions, we took live data from the brain of the DJ and the heartbeats of his dancing audience to visualize in real time the mental state they were creating.