Landscapes of Memory. Landscapes of Imagination
Alongside the rich and diverse screening program of Ars Electronica Animation Festival, we are thrilled to announce that several artists awarded at Prix Ars Electronica 2024 will be joining us at medSPACE and Deep Space 8K to present their work in person.
The two Awards of Distinction at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica—New Animation Art went to Timothy Thomasson and Jeremy Kamal for two projects which spark insight into the powerful interplay between environment, technology and human experience. While I’m Feeling Lucky uses historical references (the 19th-century panorama) to address this topic, Stained employs futuristic scenarios and technologically-transformed environments.
Despite their distinct styles and approaches, both projects engage with a common theme, which we will explore further during a 20-minute discussion with the artists that follows the screenings.
Stained, photo: Jeremy Kamal
I’m Feeling Lucky, photo: Timothy Thomasson
Bio
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Photo: Mohamed Rezk, @m0rezkJeremy Kamal
US
Jeremy Kamal is a film and game maker creating landscape mythologies through animation, sound, and video games. His geomyths explore the rituals, technologies, and ecologies that emerge when overlooked cultural values shape landscapes. Leveraging the design methods of landscape architecture and the accessibility of pop culture and music, his 3D environments host speculative narratives that include broader audiences in landscape-related discourse.
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Photo: Milo ReinhardtTimothy Thomasson
CA
Timothy Thomasson is a Montréal-based artist. His work interrogates the ways in which moving images are produced and consumed in historical and contemporary contexts, looking particularly at the effects of computer-generated images and emerging technologies on society, culture, aesthetics and perception. His work has been exhibited at galleries and media festivals internationally.