Computer Animation

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

In this journey, the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Alchemists of the Future invite you to embark on a tour through their vision and ideas for the future, which are distributed throughout the Ars Electronica Center. Take a peek inside the black box of the technologies of the future to uncover what is behind them. Gain in-depth knowledge about contemporary trends and how they are being applied in broad areas of our daily lives. Let yourself be taken into the future through Guided Journeys by our info trainers, Special Guided Journeys by artists and researchers from the Ars Electronica Futurelab or online.

Alchemists of the Future: Online Video Journey

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

With this Online Video Journey, Hideaki Ogawa, Director at the Ars Electronica Futurelab invites you to become part of a shared mission. Find out what you can expect on your way through the ideas and visions from 25 years of the past, present and future of the Alchemists of the Future in this video tour that takes you through the exhibits in the Ars Electronica Center.

Animated Tour

Chun-Chieh Lien (TW), Po-Han Lee (TW), Vick Wang (TW), Wu-Ching Chang (TW), Yu-Ting Hsueh (TW)

Imagination is a superpower. When imaging ourselves in the world of animation, every one of us has become a superhero. In the Animated Tour, viewers can devote themselves to the characters via different programs, abstract or figurative in terms of visual style, to experience anxiety and frustration all the way to happiness and growth. Getting rid of this disappointing reality, viewers shall continue the “Taiwan Grand Tour” through their imagination.

Animating Public Spaces

Anibar (XK), Flaka Kokolli (XK), Urtina Hoxha (XK)

This program will explore the power of animation and 360 video in representation of the past as tools in educating the new generations and giving a wider perspective on different narratives to wider audiences.

Expanded Animation Symposium 2021

The symposium stays the course originally set at its inception and presents theoretical positions and perspectives from the art world, the R&D field and the industrial sector.

The project 127715: Art created in The Sims 4

Diana Artemeva (RU), Kate Umnova (RU), Irina Rusakova (RU)

The project 127715: Art created in The Sims 4 consists of an in-game exhibition and a catalogue of works within it. The project suggests relocating sim paintings into the physical world and transferring game currency to dollars in order to create an experience of a simulated auction.

Bal Masqué: EMAP Closing Party at Ars Electronica, organized by IMPAKT

European Media Art Platform (EMAP), IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture]

The Bal Masqué is a virtual club night: a corona-proof merger of an online dance battle, a digital masked ball and a multitude of VJ-sets. We will have many international partners and guests, since it is the closing party of the EMAP 2018-2021 program. You are all invited to wear your craziest digital masks and party with us.

Chajnantor

Elise Guillaume (BE/GB) and Samuel Domínguez (CL/GB)

Through the use of footage, courtesy of ALMA and ESO, filmmaker Elise Guillaume (BE) and artist Samuel Domínguez (CL) collaborated on a new video about the Chajnantor Plateau, where ALMA Observatory is located, in the Atacama Desert. The video uses the music created by Olaff Peña Pastene (CL/ES), using sounds recorded at the observatory and digital data.

EVA London

Terry Trickett (GB), Dr Jon Weinel (GB), Dr Sean Clark (GB)

At the EVA (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts) conferences, ‘music’ as an international language, is taking an ever-increasing role in promoting the exchange of ideas across the worldwide community. EVA London acts as a focal point for this, promoting new adventures into the music visualisations of the future.

Expansion of a Critical Mind 

Bryan J. Romero García  (CU)

The artist sets out his projects like Narcissus contemplating his reflection. Through the use of digital tools, the artist has created, analyzed, questioned, and rehearsed a universe that reveals his ethical and existentialist concerns.

IMPAKT Workshop: Face and body filters

Yun Lee and Jonathan Reus, from iii, instrumentinventors.org, The Hague (NL)

Use filters like a pro and get ready for the Bal Masqué. With the use of software like Zoom, OBS and Snap Camera, we can create our own virtual backgrounds, digital masks, video compilations and even perform live coding and VJ sets. In this workshop we delve into the colorful world of filters, guided by performing artists Yun Lee and Jonathan Reus from iii.

Artistic Journalism Tour led by Karen Palmer

Karen Palmer (UK)

The information and surveillance society, climate change, human rights issues… Artists are addressing social questions in an artistic way and asking us questions in the form of their artworks. It can be called artistic journalism. In this tour, we will take a look at some of the prize-winning works from the Prix Ars Electronica 2021 that address journalism from an artistic perspective and method, and talk to the artists about their work.

Journey – NETWORKED

ALMA Observatory and Fundación Mustakis (CL)

By considering the extreme weather conditions in the Atacama Desert alongside ALMA Observatory, located at more than 5000 metres above sea level, the garden uses the notion of ‘landscape’ in the context of the digital world to rethink how we understand the concept under the influence of the digital revolution.

Journey to Pristina

Anibar (XK), Lapsi360 (XK), University of Prishtina (XK) Bournemouth University (UK)

This program explores the power of the 360 video in representation of the past as tools in educating the new generations and giving a wider perspective on different narratives to wider audiences.

Journey – Fair Tech and Virtual Fun

IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (NL)

Welcome to the Fair Tech and Virtual Fun: the Utrecht Garden by IMPAKT. In a time in which the digital world has become our habitat, where we live, meet, work, celebrate and breathe online, this year’s Utrecht Garden will focus on two topics.

Mardhë

Flaka Kokolli (XK)

Beti, a woman in her late forties, together with her family, is deported by Serbian security forces from her home in the capital of Kosovo to the border village of Bllacë. With war breaking out in 1999, her story of survival is stitched together as the world she knew disintegrates. The seemingly endless cycle of cruelty Beti endures on her journey to a safe haven becomes a collective story of survival.

Synaesthetic Syntax: Sounding Animation / Visualising Audio

Coming together as a series of online events, this year’s Expanded Animation symposium continues a dialogue about relationships between the senses, in particular the auditory and the visual. What are the rules, principles, and processes that govern correlations between sound and animation? How might these embodied sensations be explored, unpacked and reassembled in our age of virtual communication intensified by COVID-19?

Synaesthetic Syntax: Panel I

Juergen Hagler (AT), Birgitta Hosea (UK), Harry Whalley (UK), Dirk de Bruyn (AU), Alberto Novello (IT) , Lilly Husbands (US/UK)

In an age of digital synthesis and screen-based connections, is there a craving for a return to the material? Do we long for haptic feedback and analogue experience: the touch of guitar strings, the feel of charcoal smearing under the fingers, banging a drum, painting on film? Is this simply a form of nostalgia, or might it be thought through in new ways? How can it be brought together in the audio-visual?

Talking About Landscape in the 21st Century

Samuel Domínguez (CL), Leonor Merín (ES), Alicia Pedroso (CL), Valeria Foncea (CL), Diego Lara Koenig (CL), Sergio Martín (ES)

We are presenting a web-learning platform that gathers more than 50 references about our contemporary understanding of landscape. At the behest of Fundación Mustakis, this project was co-curated by Diego Lara Koenig (CL), with Sergio Martín (ES), invited by ALMA Observatory. The live video, with digital modelling and animation by Ming Rang Bai, will be broadcast during the festival.

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?

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.

Art & Industry

Casasola Merkle (DE), Moritz Schwind (DE), Christopher Bahry (CA), Ivelle Jargalyn (CA), Mary Anne Ledesma (CA), Alexandre Torres (CA)

Manuel Casasola Merkle and Moritz Schwind form the creative tech duo Entagma. After having worked commercially for clients like Nike, Audi, IBM or BMW, both decided to pursue their interest in generative design, algorithmic art, proceduralism and teaching. Tendril is a design-driven animation, vfx, and digital innovation studio, creating beautiful and thoughtful visuals across all mediums. They believe that smart, beautiful stories should inspire new ways of looking at the world.

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.

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.

Tectonic Shift Panel Discussion

Casasola Merkle (DE), Moritz Schwind (DE), Ivelle Jargalyn (CA) – Tendril

Prix Forum: The Re-enchantment of Humanism

Guangli Liu (CN), Veneta Androva (BG), Erick Oh (KR/US), Helen Starr (TT)

The Prix Forum – Computer Animation is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2021 and the jury.

Those Who Drown Cling to Foam

Urtina Hoxha (XK)

Through stark, intricate animation, Those Who Drown Cling to Foam illustrates the devastating personal account of a family forced to flee their home during the 1999 NATO bombings of Kosovo.

IMPAKT Workshop: VJ-ing in Zoom

Jeroen Witjes (IMPAKT), Sabrina Verhage (Creative Coding Amsterdam)

Want to shine during the Bal Masqué on 11 September? This workshop is about VJ-ing and focuses on creating video backgrounds and other video effects to use in your performance. We learn how to create and use virtual backgrounds, visualizations and gifs and looping videos to create a vibrant, fun presentation.

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Chun-Chieh Lien (TW), Po-Han Lee (TW), Vick Wang (TW), Wu-Ching Chang (TW), Yu-Ting Hsueh (TW)

Anibar (XK), Flaka Kokolli (XK), Urtina Hoxha (XK)

Diana Artemeva (RU), Kate Umnova (RU), Irina Rusakova (RU)

European Media Art Platform (EMAP), IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture]

Elise Guillaume (BE/GB) and Samuel Domínguez (CL/GB)

Terry Trickett (GB), Dr Jon Weinel (GB), Dr Sean Clark (GB)

Bryan J. Romero García  (CU)

Yun Lee and Jonathan Reus, from iii, instrumentinventors.org, The Hague (NL)

Karen Palmer (UK)

ALMA Observatory and Fundación Mustakis (CL)

Anibar (XK), Lapsi360 (XK), University of Prishtina (XK) Bournemouth University (UK)

IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (NL)

Flaka Kokolli (XK)

Juergen Hagler (AT), Birgitta Hosea (UK), Harry Whalley (UK), Dirk de Bruyn (AU), Alberto Novello (IT) , Lilly Husbands (US/UK)

Samuel Domínguez (CL), Leonor Merín (ES), Alicia Pedroso (CL), Valeria Foncea (CL), Diego Lara Koenig (CL), Sergio Martín (ES)

Ars Electronica (AT), Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg Campus (AT)

Sabine Laimer (AT/NZ), Annegret Richter (DE), Tobias Trebeljahr (DE)

Casasola Merkle (DE), Moritz Schwind (DE), Christopher Bahry (CA), Ivelle Jargalyn (CA), Mary Anne Ledesma (CA), Alexandre Torres (CA)

Imge Özbilge (TR), Sine Özbilge (TR) , Matthias Winckelmann (DE)

Nonny de la Peña (US), Peter Burr (US)

Casasola Merkle (DE), Moritz Schwind (DE), Ivelle Jargalyn (CA) – Tendril

Guangli Liu (CN), Veneta Androva (BG), Erick Oh (KR/US), Helen Starr (TT)

Urtina Hoxha (XK)

Jeroen Witjes (IMPAKT), Sabrina Verhage (Creative Coding Amsterdam)

A NEW DIGITAL DEAL

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Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT)

Chun-Chieh Lien (TW), Po-Han Lee (TW), Vick Wang (TW), Wu-Ching Chang (TW), Yu-Ting Hsueh (TW)

Anibar (XK), Flaka Kokolli (XK), Urtina Hoxha (XK)

Diana Artemeva (RU), Kate Umnova (RU), Irina Rusakova (RU)

European Media Art Platform (EMAP), IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture]

Elise Guillaume (BE/GB) and Samuel Domínguez (CL/GB)

Terry Trickett (GB), Dr Jon Weinel (GB), Dr Sean Clark (GB)

Bryan J. Romero García (CU)

Yun Lee and Jonathan Reus, from iii, instrumentinventors.org, The Hague (NL)

Karen Palmer (UK)

ALMA Observatory and Fundación Mustakis (CL)

Anibar (XK), Lapsi360 (XK), University of Prishtina (XK) Bournemouth University (UK)

IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (NL)

Flaka Kokolli (XK)

Juergen Hagler (AT), Birgitta Hosea (UK), Harry Whalley (UK), Dirk de Bruyn (AU), Alberto Novello (IT) , Lilly Husbands (US/UK)

Samuel Domínguez (CL), Leonor Merín (ES), Alicia Pedroso (CL), Valeria Foncea (CL), Diego Lara Koenig (CL), Sergio Martín (ES)

Ars Electronica (AT), Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg Campus (AT)

Sabine Laimer (AT/NZ), Annegret Richter (DE), Tobias Trebeljahr (DE)

Casasola Merkle (DE), Moritz Schwind (DE), Christopher Bahry (CA), Ivelle Jargalyn (CA), Mary Anne Ledesma (CA), Alexandre Torres (CA)

Imge Özbilge (TR), Sine Özbilge (TR) , Matthias Winckelmann (DE)

Nonny de la Peña (US), Peter Burr (US)

Casasola Merkle (DE), Moritz Schwind (DE), Ivelle Jargalyn (CA) – Tendril

Guangli Liu (CN), Veneta Androva (BG), Erick Oh (KR/US), Helen Starr (TT)

Urtina Hoxha (XK)

Jeroen Witjes (IMPAKT), Sabrina Verhage (Creative Coding Amsterdam)

A NEW DIGITAL DEAL

#arselectronica21#newdigitaldeal

Bryan J. Romero García  (CU)

Imge Özbilge (TR), Sine Özbilge (TR) , Matthias Winckelmann (DE)

#arselectronica21
#newdigitaldeal