create your world
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youtube:lab #4 – What do you expect from Youtube?
The youtube:lab has finished its last episode and tries to find answers of what the viewers of a YouTube channel actually expect.
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youtube:lab #3 – YouTube Genres
Which are the new forms of content on youtube, what are the genres, people watch? We asked the young youtubers and festival participants
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youtube:lab #2 – web-video vs TV
Will YouTube be the next television? The young youtubers are trying to find answers at the u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD festival.
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youtube:lab #1 – Create your world
The youtube:lab as part of u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD uses the medium film to asks questions of change.
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OpenFilmLab
Film is the focal-point theme of this year’s u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD, so one of the featured offerings will be an extensive film workshop staged right in downtown Linz.
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CyberArts 2014 – Jurystatements
No fewer than 2.703 projects were submitted for the Prix Ars Electronica 2014, one of the most popular awards for media art. In short statements jury members are talking about the projects of their respective categories.
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Femme Chanel – Emma Fenchel
With her found footage project the winner of the u19 – Create Your World category, Sarah Oos, accomplishes that novel narrative twists even have a way of occurring to those who’ve already seen this film several times.
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(e)motion-mirror: Reflected Feelings
Feelings are human. No computer in the world can outperform us when it comes to interpreting feelings and reacting to them. For this reason, Richard Sadek invented the (e)motion-mirror. It reflects the feelings of his viewer by detecting emotionally-charged facial movements and converts them into piano tones.
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u19 PRIX: A Look behind the Scenes
The jurors in the Prix Ars Electronica’s “u19 – Create Your World” category spent three days evaluating many entries by youngsters age 19 and under from Austria. We asked Ulrike Schweiger and Conny Lee about the difficult decision-making process.
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A Golden Nica for Young People
Once again this year, the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category cordially invites youngsters under age 19 to submit promising ideas for prize consideration. We recently had a chance to chat with Sirikit Amann, a juror in this category since 1998.
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Screenplays for the World of Tomorrow
Austrian actor Ferry Öllinger was already a familiar face to audiences in German-speaking Europe when his big breakthrough came playing Chief Inspector Kroisleitner in the popular TV cop show “SOKO Kitzbühel”. At the 2014 Prix Ars Electronica, he’s cast in quite a different role: juror in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category.
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Festivalralley – Part 3
During monday afternoon’s Festival rallye, we sighted Nora and Ilvy in the Brucknerhaus amidst an exhibition of brains in glass jars. They also listened in to recordings from all over the world emanating from a spherical sound storage medium rotating like a globe. At the Ars Electronica Center, the two girls improvised on the set…
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Make Your World the Way YOU Want It to Be!
This year’s u19 Create Your World Festival ran from September 5th to 9th. Young people (and the young at heart) enjoyed up-close-and-personal encounters with a wide array of projects, initiatives and design possibilities.
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Festivalralley – Part 2
Christina and Alina joined the Festival rallye today. In the Brucknerhaus, they contributed a picture of our world to Benjamin Pollach’s World Map Archive. Then, the curious duo observed how the Table of Gazes draws faces by following the subject’s eye movements. In the Campus exhibition featuring young Israeli artists, Christina and Alina focused on…
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Day 4: Discovery with All the Senses
Use all your senses to experience the u19 Festival! Here’s an overview of Day 4.
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Festivalralley – Part 1
Theo and Jonas kicked off the Festival rallye in the Brucknerhaus this afternoon. The two junior technologists did a cartographic rendering for the World Map Archive and helped the toy soldiers guard the computer’s data. At Linz Art University, they saw artwork from Israel. Their favorite was the robot that, in accordance with Jewish custom,…
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A Festival Dedicated to Social Welfare
Today, the accent is on various aspects of the community in which we live.
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A Sustainable Festival
It’s been a busy time, since the u19 awards ceremony was held today. Here we spotlight a few projects having to do with sustainability.
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From times past into future
First festival day.
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u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD – Zukunftsfestival der nächsten Generation
The u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD – Festivalstadt is almost ready, members of the press have already seen it, you can start exploring tomorrow, September 5th.
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A Festival Village Takes Shape
[:de]Die Fotoserie vom Aufbau der u19 Festivalstadt: Am Dienstag, 27. 8. um 7:00 kam der erste von 31 Containern am Maindeck des Ars Electronica Centers an. Inzwischen ist eine bunte Stadt daraus entstanden, die ab nächster Woche von den 40 ProjektpartnerInnen von u19 Create Your World bezogen wird. Am Donnerstag, 5. 9. um 10:00 öffnen…
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Séra Ildi Creates Her World
[:de]Zum u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival kommen jedes Jahr Künstler und Künstlerinnen von überall aus der Welt. Sie zeigen uns ihre Ideen, probieren sie hier aus und lassen sich selbst zu Neuen inspirieren. Séra Ildi aus der Schweiz arbeitet mit Erinnerungen, die in Menschen, Orten und Dingen gespeichert sind und spinnt sie weiter. Beim…
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CREATE YOUR WORLD – Highlights to Heighten the Anticipation
[:de]CREATE YOUR WORLD 2013 findet in 3 Wochen statt und geht damit in die 3. Runde. Seit 2011 ist es ist nicht nur ein Ort des kreativen Ausdrucks im Bereich der Medienkünste, sondern auch ein Ort der Zusammenkunft und des gemeinsamen Gestaltens: ein Ort, an dem Künstlerinnen, Wissenschaftler, Forscherinnen sowie wissbegierige und kreative Festivalbesucher gemeinsam…
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Rebecca Gischel Creates Her World
Every year artists from all over the world come to u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival to show us their ideas, try them and also get inspired to do new Projects. Interaction artist Rebecca Gischel shows the installation Global Sounds – here she writes about her works and the ideas behind them.
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GameLab – A Youth Meeting at u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD
It’s official! The EU’s Youth in Action program has agreed to sponsor GameLab, a European young people’s conclave developed and submitted for funding by Ars Electronica together with mb21 (Germany), bugnplay.ch (Switzerland) und C319 (Hungary). We’re thrilled; the participants will be too! But, like, what’s this GameLab all about, actually?
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Mónica Rikić Creates Her World
Every year artists from all over the world come to u19 CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival to show us their ideas, try them and also get inspired to do new Projects. One of them is Mónica Rikić, our guest from Spain and will be showing her project Buildasound. Here she tells us the tale of this…
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u19 – u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD 2013 – A Recall for Round 3
Since 1998, there’s been a Prix Ars Electronica category strictly for young people. Up through 2010, it was called u19 – freestyle computing. Youngsters could enter all sorts of digital projects for prize consideration; the sole submission criterion was working in a creative way with the computer. It quickly became clear that so-called new media…
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Do-it-Yourself World Design: The u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Manual
Here’s the story right from the beginning: u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD is Ars Electronica’s festival for kids, young people and anybody else interested in co-determining how the world works, today and tomorrow. The colorful festival village round about the Ars Electronica Center is a playground for ideas, concepts, experiments and solutions to fascinating problems.…