Based on the computer animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica international competition, animated pictorial worlds have been a cornerstone of the Ars Electronica Festival and have been discussed and presented in various forms ever since. Since 2005, the Ars Electronica Animation Festival has been bringing together a multifaceted program at the intersections of animation, art and technology. A selection of works can be explored through the Animation Festival 2022 Tour program.
The Electronic Theatre features a selection of the works honored by the jury in the Prix Ars Electronica category Computer Animation. For the first time, one screening program will take up the festival theme Welcome to Planet B. The program Austrian Panorama highlights current works of local artists. The Young Animations program is lineup featuring films from the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19-create your world category for young people under 19 years of age in Austria.
The 2022 Ars Electronica Animation Festival is a highly diversified showcase that invites spectators to take an exciting journey through current artistic productions in the expanded field of digital animation.
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The Electronic Theatre is the annual best-of program, a compilation of outstanding animated films, chosen by the jury from the submitted works in the category Computer Animation. The selection showcases current productions in terms of artistic content, as well as cultural and technological innovation.
Anxious Body, credit: Yoriko Mizushiri
Featuring:
Anxious Body
Yoriko Mizushiri (JP)
05:49 min
AWARD OF DISTINCTION / Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Tartarus
Mariano Ferández Russo (AR)
02:38 min
HONORARY MENTION – Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Radicalization Pipeline, 2021
Theoklitos Triantafyllidis (GR)
03:09 min
HONORARY MENTION – Prix Ars Electronica 2022
The Crow
Glenn Marshall (UK)
03:00
HONORARY MENTION – Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Very, Very, Tremendously
Guangli LIU (CN)
12:12 min
HONORARY MENTION – Prix Ars Electronica 2022
When fox and rabbit say goodnight
Finn Stevenhagen (NL)
20:29 min
HONORARY MENTION – Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Change is an inevitable condition of reality for both living and non-living things. Movement, development, evolution, and dissolution is part of the scheme. But is change anthropocentric? What exactly could we expect from it in the future? Change can mean resolution, embrace, or reconnection; it can be ironic, dreamy, climate-related, abstract, or destructive. In one way or another, there is potential, possibility, and variety. We understand the need for change as individuals, society, and humanity, but also as minimal parts of the bigger existence of reality.
Featuring:
Tech For Democracy
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm (DK)
06:33 min
Patrick and the Buttons
Francois Heiser (FR)
02:57 min
Borrowed Limbs
Lisa-Marleen Mantel (DE) and Laura Wagner (DE)
03:27 min
Intersect
Dirk Koy (SZ)
18:23 min
mormúrō
Stefan Larsson (JP)
08:43 min
Models for Environmental Literacy
Tivon Rice (US)
36:40 min
Curated by Juergen Hagler, Maria-Nefeli Panetsos
What does it mean to commit suicide in a digital world? Can we exist as fragmented digital identities? What happens when we do not play by the rules of in-game environments? Why do unicorns like water games? Does the earth revolve around me? This program features a selection of Austrian film directors. The spectrum ranges from dystopian visions of the future to humorous introspections. A wide range of styles and techniques are used: Game Engines, Motion Capture, 3D Animation and Pixilation.
O, credit: Paul Wenninger
Featuring:
Klimax
Bea Höller (AT)
03:20 min
The Subject Changes
Depart (AT)
08:54 min
Hellbrunn — History Refreshingly New
Simon Wendler (AT)
03:39 min
O
Paul Wenninger (AT)
05:36 min
How to Disappear
Total Refusal (AT)
21:06 min
HONORARY MENTION – Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Wenn die Welt zu Ende geht, werde ich dich geliebt haben
Gloria Gammer (AT)
15:03 min
Curated by Juergen Hagler
Every year young, gifted filmmakers from Austria submit their weird, subtle, witty, utopian, critical and dystopian works for the Prix Ars Electronica’s category of u19—create your world. They show us their strong imagination, their deep understanding of certain topics, all expressed through their abilities within one medium. This program is a selection of Animations coming from young creatives and young professionals from different age groups (17-19) and skill sets.
Featuring:
Family Time
A Very Special Photo
Anna Wingelmaier (AT), Alexie Khan (AT), Melek Bel Haj Salah(AT), Giulianna Cuc (AT)
02:58 min
BONGOS
Sabrina Koller (AT), Martina Janjic (AT), Barbara Mendez Mendez (AT), Johanna Stefanic (AT)
02:33 min
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS-HONORARY MENTION – Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Mochi
Emily Faderbauer (AT), Kerstin Helmlinger (AT), Elli Semmler (AT), Katja Senn (AT)
05:10 min
Endless expanses …?
171
Fabian Wenzelhumer (AT)
02:02 min
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS-AWARD OF DISTINCTION – Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Space Garden
Rosemarie Haider (AT), Laura Huber (AT), Felix Korn (AT), Lara Pipus (AT)
02:59 min
trois ballons couleur Rouge
Loric Demander (AT)
02:23 min
Clunky – a clumsy robot
Bianca Amberger (AT)
01:1 min
Soda Pop
Melek Bel Haj Salah (AT), Sofija Lenhart (AT), Alena Fodor (AT), Leonie Ettinger (AT), Anna Mikysek (AT)
02:08 min
Nature and other Things
Mothernature – Life goes on
John Lim (AT)
02:00 min
Flow of Time
Tristan Hill (AT)
00:46 min
Raccoons
Kristina Jimendez (AT), Lisa-Marie Koller (AT), Klaudia Mróz (AT), Stocker Belana (AT)
02:39 min
Curated by Sirikit Amann (OeAD)
Ars Electronica Animation Festival on Tour 2022
| January 15, 2023 | Padova Digital Sounds | Padova, Italy |
| February 13, 2023 | Berlin University of the Arts – Fakultät für Gestaltung | Berlin, Germany |
| March 3, 2023 | Cultural Center Cacak Film & Video Program | Cacak, Serbia |
| March 10–12, 2023 | CerModern presents the Electronica Animation Festival 2022 | Ankara, Turkey |
| March 14, 2023 | Hagenberg Campus: Ars Electronica Animation Festival on Tour 2022 | Hagenberg, Austria |
| March 17–25, 2023 | French Film Festival 2023 in Bucharest | Bucharest, Romania |
| April 19 – May 1, 2023 | BAFICI Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| May 9 – 30, 2023 | Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2022 en Mexico | Xalapa, México |
| May 27, 2023 | Animation Festival 2022 on Tour at Cinema Elvire Popesco | Bucharest, Romania |
| June 14, 2023 | medienfrische 23 | Bschlabs, Austria |
| June 15 – July 5, 2023 | Post-Digital Intersections | Timișoara, Romania |
| July 19, 2023 | Waterpieces Festival at Art Centre Noass | Riga, Latvia |
| September 22, 2023 | ANIMANIA 2023 | Cacak, Serbia |
| September 30, 2023 | An Evening with Ars Electronica @ HEI House of European Institutes | Timișoara, Romania |
| September 23 – October 21, 2023 | Locust Projects Fall Line Up | Miami, US |
| October 6 – 26, 2023 | Recode – Art and Technology in a Transhumanist Context @ Baia Turceassca (Turkish Bath) | Iasi, Romania |
| October 7, 2023 | Beyond Animation 2023 in collaboration with Alliance Franaise de Chiang Mai | Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| October 12 – 14, 2023 | 27. International New Media Art Festival | Novi Sad, Serbia |
| October 16 – 22, 2023 | INTERSECCION. Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival | A Coruña, Spain |
| October 21 – 22, 2023 | Patchlab Digital Art Festival 2023 SPACE/S | Krakow, Poland |
| October 22 – 28, 2023 | Kuandu International Animation Festival | Taipei, Taiwan |
| October 26 – 27, 2023 | Digital Art Festival Sofia | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 1 – 30, 2023 | Microwave International New Media Arts Festival | Hong Kong |
| November 19, 2023 | Studio International Theater Festival | Targu Mures, Romania |
| November 25 – 26, 2023 | Digital Journey | Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
| November 28 – December 3, 2023 | Anilogue IAF | Budapest, Hungary |
| December 12 – 15, 2023 | SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 | Sydney, Australia |
| December 14, 2023 | 5 Animation Film Festival Warsaw | Warsaw, Poland |
Credits
The Prix Ars Electronica, organized by Ars Electronica Linz GmbH & Co KG, is made possible by support from the City of Linz. Special thanks for additional support go to Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and OeAD.
The Ars Electronica ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2022 is organized by Ars Electronica in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus.The Ars Electronica ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2022 on Tour was produced in collaboration and with special thanks to the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.
More About Animation Festival 2022 on Tour
For many years, the screening program of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival has shown the best of current productions, compiled from the submissions to the Prix Ars Electronica’s category Computer Animation. This year, 657 submissions were sent to this category and the jury convened in April for three days of deliberations in Linz. This selection was the basis for the on-site jury session and the programs of the 2022 Ars Electronica Animation Festival.
Many of the works being shown can be categorized as expanded animation, such as various VR experiences, hybrids between games and animations, site-specific installations, or experiments with new technology such as artificial intelligence or machine learning. The spectrum of formats ranges from animated shorts to animated documentaries, from experimental-abstract works to interactive animated audio-visual environments.
