create your world

Play with Pixels

Anna Oelsch, Gerda Lechner und Maria Binder / students of the University of Art and Design Linz

It is impossible to imagine our hands without screens. We have come to appreciate the benefits of digital communication and its diversity, especially in the past year and a half of distance. While modern technology cannot replace the analog world with its haptic experience, it can complement it wonderfully.

I AM (NOT) A ROBOT

create your world (AT), mb21 (DE), <19 (HU), ArtechLAB Amsterdam (NL)

Homeschooling, distance learning and social distancing bring our society into close contact with Artificial Intelligences in everyday life. We use it, we rely on it, but most of the time, we don’t recognize it. This international challenge is aimed at experimenting with AI by exploring the limits of humanness and robotness.

Talent Talks

The “Talent Talks” offer the opportunity to gain in-depth insights into some of the artworks in the u19-create your world exhibition by this year's Prix Ars Electronica winners. In the course of short interviews, the artists will talk about the genesis of their projects and their ideas, about creativity and visions for the future.

Call to Action!

At the Call to Action! panel discussion, young artists and political activists will explore protest culture and forms of civil disobedience. The starting point for the discussion will be two film works that won awards in the Prix Ars Electronica's u19-create your world category.

Ideenwerkstatt

Submitters of the category „Young Creatives” of u19–create your world

The wonderful ideas and projects of kids and youngsters in the Prix Ars Electronica u19-create your world's "Young Creatives" category serve as inspiration for new, crazy ideas! In the “Ideenwerkstatt”, lots of materials are available for creating projects together with other tinkerers in the midst of the festival hustle and bustle, or for continuing to work on them. A craft workshop for creative minds!

Conducting Spaces / Ableton Open Lab

Ableton Live (DE), MiMU Gloves (UK), University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (AT), Ars Electronica Linz (AT), Adrián Artacho (ES/AT), Daniel Kohlmeigner (AT)

In this experimental open lab, festival visitors can discover and expand their skills in music programming. Conducting electronic components can be tried out with the MiMU Gloves. With the support of Ableton Certified Artist Daniel Kohlmeigner, simple and complex sound carpets can be woven.

Moving in VR!

Ariella Vidach - IT Claudio Prati - IT AIEP’s VR dance company – IT

Move in VR! is a performative workshop to propose to a group of 15 participants – from remote locations and through Oculus viewers - a virtual reality experience that will give them the opportunity to physically experience a new dimension, creating and dancing in a participatory choreography.

Prix Ars Electronica „u19–create your world“ Exhibition

Young Professionals, Young Creatives (AT)

This year’s exhibition of the 23 winning projects in the u19–create your world category once again shows a colorful mix of refreshing ideas, critical projects and research approaches by children and young people. The exhibition will be presented as an interactive platform at the festival by the young people themselves. The winners will get to know each other and can exchange new ideas.

Award Ceremony u19–create your world

The Award Ceremony will focus on the Prix Ars Electronica winners in the "u19 - create your world" category.