Prix Ars Electronica
Der Vogel mit dem coolen Hut
23 students from class 3c at GTVS Kolonitzgasse, Vienna 3 (AT)
The creative and unusual ideas and the self-designed world with which the young artists confront us in this project are as outlandish as the execution itself.
Artist Talk: Sissel Marie Tonn (DK)
Artist Talk by Sissel Marie Tonn (DK) about her project ‘The Intimate Earthquake Archive’ which got the Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Das Würfelhaus
Dominik Pichler (AT)
Das Würfelhaus is a work that one does not fully comprehend at first glance—but when one looks more closely, one understands: what we have here is a product of pure imagination.
Artist Talk: Dasha Ilina (RU)
Artist Talk by Dasha Ilina (RU) about her project 'Center for Technological Pain' which got the Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Das Verschwinden der Trolle
Luis Schweighofer (AT)
The project Das Verschwinden der Trolle (The Disappearance of the Trolls) is a short film that was recorded in one take with a smartphone, using primarily Lego and Schleich figures and pictures. In order to change the “actors” and backdrops between the individual scenes, the recording was simply paused.
Schule der Zukunft
Matilde Irene Abarca Hernandez (AT)
Faced with the question “How could the school of the future look,” I suddenly had thousands of images in my head; super modern buildings, floating personalized touchscreens, digital textbooks ... But then I thought, regardless of how modern and cool a school like that would be, there will always be someone who just doesn’t like school. Perhaps this is because every person is different and therefore needs a different kind of learning.
Lury
Laurin Steinhuber (AT), Amelie Steinhuber (AT), Niklas Steinhuber (AT)
Lury is an animated film featuring 20-cm-tall figures and elaborate stage sets consisting of some 5,000 individual photographs. The main character is Lury, a fisherman who has lost interest in fishing and wonders what other kind of occupation he could pursue. When a knock comes at the door and he opens it to find a demon, nothing is as it once was.
Artist Talk: Miwa Matreyek (US)
Artist Talk by Miwa Matreyek (US) about her project 'Infinitely Yours' which won the Golden Nica in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Artist Talk: Mario Klingemann (DE)
Artist Talk by Mario Klingemann (DE) about his project 'Appropriate Response' which got the Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Artist Talk: Lynn Hershman Leeson (US)
Artist Talk by Lynn Hershman Leeson (US) about her project 'Shadow Stalker' which won the Award of Distinction in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Artist Talk: Simon Weckert (DE)
Artist Talk by Simon Weckert (DE) about his project 'Google Maps Hacks' which won the Award of Distinction in the Interactive Art + category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Die Zukunft liegt in unseren Händen
Students from BG & BRG III Boerhaavegasse (*2005, 2006) (AT)
Together, we reflected on what we would wish for our future.
Zwischentöne
Students from class 4e at Musisches Gymnasium, Salzburg (AT)
Our audio mystery is concerned with the topic of copyright in the music industry, Internet piracy, and intellectual property.
Coded Art Gallery
Michael Zaminer (AT)
The Coded Art Gallery is a collection of nine different programs that offer a graphic representation and usually function in interaction with the observer. They can be executed with the computer only with the Processing IDE.
The Truth Part 2
Students from NMS Lehen, Creative Media Design (AT)
The Truth Part 2 is a mixed-reality game that takes players to the abysses of modern cities.
WWW.VIRUS
Ria Kathan (AT), Florian Sigl (AT)
Mankind’s most revolutionary invention has spread throughout society like a virus. The smartphone has infiltrated our everyday life quietly and inconspicuously and exerted an enormous influence on it. The price we pay for the convenience these devices offer us has a different significance for each of us, but its sum remains the same. Every one of us is responsible for oneself; one must decide whether one places the services provided by Google Maps, Instagram, Amazon, and WhatsApp above one’s own privacy. But these devices impact nearly every other area of our lives as well—in the case of young people, it is particularly their health that is affected.
Querdenker
Mirjam Fladenhofer, Clemens Pfeiffer, Nora Puntigam, Gergely Varecza, Max Wolfmajer / HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule (AT)
The short film Querdenker (Lateral Thinkers) looks at our modern social-media society as well as at lateral thinkers in society and how they are perceived. In a world that lives in an entrenched portrait mode, the young Mo defies these societal standards and films his videos in landscape or “lateral” orientation. One day in a park, three boys who, like Mo, are making a live stream, but in portrait mode, notice his unusual camera position and confront him about his alternative perspective.
Nomster
Students from class 7c and 8a at BORG Bad Leonfelden (AT)
One of our school’s focal points is a special focus on arts with a strong emphasis on media. In our computer science class, we studied various ways of developing apps and in the process discovered the program Adobe Animate. We learned the programming language it uses, Actionscript, and began creating small applications that incremented variables or told stories in which the user could periodically decide how they would continue.
Musik zum Mitnehmen
Magdalena Schiesser / HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule (AT)
The two rings I designed are dedicated to the theme of Styria and the traditional “Klapotetz.” The special thing about the rings is that together, they make music. One ring looks like a small cog wheel, while the other is made out of steel resonating strips from an accordion. The cog-wheel ring is for the ring finger and the other ring for the middle finger. When one wears both rings on one hand, the movement of the cog wheel against the steel strips can produce a tone. The rings can also be worn separately, of course. I made both pieces of jewelry out of silver, using various silversmithing techniques.
Meine Welt, Deine Welt
Zoe Borzi (AT), Nikolaus Heckel (AT), Jonathan Steininger (AT)
How different are we really? This is the question that the documentary film Meine Welt, Deine Welt (My World, Your World) asks a drag queen, a monk, a female farmer, and an animal-rights activist—four people who could not be more different but who nevertheless have much in common. Four life stories about tolerance, decisions, and clichés.
