Next Generation
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Inside & Between: Within Different Worlds
Gabriel Radwan is this year’s Golden Nica winner in the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category. The 19-year-old student’s prizewinning project is a stop-motion film entitled “Inside & Between”.
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When Are They Finally Going to Leave?
The kids attending the Kindergarten of the Future this year selected Ute Krause’s “Wann gehen die wieder?” [When Are They Finally Going to Leave?] for a project entitled Linz Picture Book Kindergartens and thus dealt with issues having to do with patchwork families.
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CREATE YOUR WORLD Goes on Tour!
Ars Electronica has come up with another highlight for young people: the CREATE YOUR WORLD Tour! Selected schools and other institutions will be hosting a lineup of workshops.
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This Isn’t a Matter of Technical Sophistication; Emotions Are What Counts!
The Prix Ars Electronica has staged a competition for young people ever since 1998. In the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category. Sirikit Amann has served as a juror in this category every year since its inception.
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Investigating, Discovering and Comprehending via Game Playing
Since 2003, Elisabeth Menasse-Wiesbauer has been director of the ZOOM Kindermuseum and we’re honored that she has agreed to serve as a Prix Ars Electronica juror this year in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category.
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Life Always Offers Alternatives
Erwin Wagenhofer is an Austrian author and filmmaker whose critical documentary films have won numerous awards and made a name for him worldwide. In conjunction with the 2015 Prix Ars Electronica, he is serving as a juror in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category for kids and young people.
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Research is Child’s Play
The Kids’ Research Laboratory that opened in mid-January 2015 is the Museum of the Future’s high-tech playground for youngsters age 4-8.
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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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Ars Electronica Center als (Volks-)Schule
Drei Volksschulklassen besuchen in diesem Schuljahr das Ars Electronica Center mehrmals und erleben es so besonders intensiv als ungewöhnlichen Lernort. Gerda Hörschläger von der VS Pöstlingberg und Andrea Fröhlich vom Team Bildung & Vermittlung berichten von Erfahrungen und Intention dieses Angebots.
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Kids experience Technology
Attentive observation, independent experiments and inquisitive research. Playful and without learning pressure children between 4 and 8 years explore scientific phenomena and technological applications at the exhibition “KET – Kids Experience Technology” of the KET-tour project 2012-2015.
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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.