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Tectonic Shift I
Sabine Laimer (AT/NZ), Annegret Richter (DE), Tobias Trebeljahr (DE)
Sabine Laimer is a digital compositor and compositing supervisor (Weta Digital) for feature film and episodic content. Annegret Richter is the executive manager of AG Animationsfilm, the German Animation Association and a founding member of the initiative Women in German Animation. Tobias Trebeljahr lives and works as a freelance Visual Development Artist in Leipzig, Germany, where he’s currently developing several animation projects.
Artist Position II
Nonny de la Peña (US), Peter Burr (US)
Nonny de la Peña is one of the of the most influential pioneers in developing virtual reality as a modern means of expression. Peter Burr is an artist from Brooklyn, NY, a master of computer animation with a gift for creating images and environments that hover on the boundary between abstraction and figuration.
Artist Position I
Imge Özbilge (TR), Sine Özbilge (TR) , Matthias Winckelmann (DE)
The sister directors duo Imge Özbilge and Sine Özbilge work together as each other’s mirrors. They experiment with the medium of animation, the 16:9 screen, digital installation art and the use of mixed media, exploring new connotations and stylistic forms. Matthias Winckelmann is a creative director and digital artist, currently based in Berlin, Germany. He is former creative director and managing partner of the creative ensemble foam Studio Berlin and former head of 3D of the internationally acclaimed design & branding studio ManvsMachine London. Since 2020, he has been working as an independent director and designer for leading brands around the world.
Expanded Animation 2021: Tectonic Shift
Ars Electronica (AT), Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg Campus (AT)
The 9th edition of the Expanded Animation symposium series will once again focus on current and future trends at the intersection of animation, art and technology during the Ars Electronica media art festival (September 8-12). On the first two days, international artists, researchers and developers will discuss current processes of change in the expanded field of animation under the motto Tectonic Shift. The central question is: What fundamental changes in conception, production and reception are discernible, and how does the Covid19 pandemic fit into this context?
Our lives tracked – meaning, risks and remedies
Stefano Rossetti (IT)
The Internet is characterised by the large-scale collection of our personal data via hidden digital trackers such as cookies. The workshop will describe this system, its risks and how the law can be used to fight unfair use of technology.
France Jobin & Markus Heckmann present “Entanglement”
France Jobin (CA) & Markus Heckmann (CA/DE)
“Entanglement” is basically an artistic project at the crossroads of scientific research inspired by the concept and properties of entanglement in quantum physics and quantum fields theory.
Priori & Jason Voltaire live A/V
Priori (CA) & Jason Voltaire (CA)
Armed with a deep respect for ever-shifting permutations of techno and IDM, Priori's productions morph and shift with every release, channelling murky acid lines, trance-influenced euphoria, and spacey, organic breakbeats.
Myriam Bleau presents “Unsculpt”
Myriam Bleau (CA)
“Unsculpt” is an audiovisual performance by Myriam Bleau, exploring and deconstructing new sounds from an upcoming release. It features hybrid electronic music, mixing modular synths with digital synthesis and algorithms in Supercollider.
AI x Music - The Question of Autonomy and Human Intention in Art & AI (Episode I)
Isabella Salas (MX/QC), Maya Indira Ganesh (IN/DE/UK), Yuri Suzuki (JP/UK), Ali Nikrang (AT)
In recent years, new AI technologies have increasingly been incorporated into fascinating artistic projects. The ability of AI to explore new, previously unknown perspectives of data certainly seems to enable new areas of artistic creation. But it also raises questions about possible forms of collaboration between AI and human artists. Intention plays a great role in the creative process. But how can artistic intention be communicated with an AI system? How does the degree of autonomy of an AI system affect human-AI collaboration? Are less autonomous AI systems better suited for artistic tasks because they give humans more freedom?
ALMA presents “Fragments : The Shape of Things”
ALMA : Marc-André Cossette (CA) & Alexandre Saunier (CA/FR).
“Fragments: The Shape of Things” questions how automated data processing systems impact the perception of social relations and global conflicts, notably in terms of their anonymization and aestheticization.
