The Click
Caroline Bär (AT), Zara Dineva (AT), Julia Scheiwein (AT), Anna Zoglauer (AT); Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | The Click is an animatic short film that takes up various current social debates such as gender roles, parent-child relationships, adoption ethics and racism and processes them both humorously and critically.

The 2020 Rise Up
Gregor Franz (AT), Johannes Rass (AT), Julian Pixel Schmiederer (AT)

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | The documentary film The 2020 Rise Up deals with global protest movements: from local offshoots of the worldwide climate protests to rallies about the inhumane conditions in Greek refugee camps and anti-government mass protests in Hong Kong.

Sprechende Teslaspule
Nikolaus Juch (AT)

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | The Talking Tesla Coil can play back any audio sequence without pre-processing. For example, it can play human speech or music directly from a smartphone in real time. During playback, the power of the Tesla coil becomes sensually perceptible: visually, it offers an impressive spectacle of colored flashes, and the ozone produced in small quantities can be smelled.

smartLantern – die smarte Straßenlaterne
Christoph Steiner (AT), Moritz Vögl (AT), Simon Schmidmayr (AT), Jan Reinsperger (AT); HTL Rennweg

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | smartLantern is a newly developed type of street lighting that is more resource-efficient than conventional lanterns and offers additional functions. Thanks to built-in brightness and radar sensors, the smartLantern only lights up at full intensity when it is really needed.

Silence
Felix Zorn-Pauli (AT)

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | The animated short film Silence is an interpretation of the poem "Today and Tomorrow" by Paul Celan. In a few scenes Felix Zorn-Pauli reproduces the atmospheric mood of the poem in an abstract staging. It was important to the artist to express his personal interpretation and his own feelings about the text.

Realitätsverlust
Fabian Ahammer / Wenzelhumer (AT)

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | “Realitätsverlust” is an expressive creative work that addresses a variety of socially relevant issues and leaves room for the artist's own associations. The pencil drawings deal with the relationship between man and technology, with surveillance, pressure to perform, the feeling of alienation and loss of freedom.

Liebe ist kein Spielfilm
Sabine Wimmer (AT)

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | In the short film “Liebe ist kein Spielfilm” (Love is not a feature film), Sabine Wimmer humorously points out the differences between cinematically staged romance and reality. Using talking film posters, she interweaves parodies of love movie classics with her own narrative.

Future / just a dream?
Leonhard Gaigg (AT)

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | The project “Future / just a dream?” is a cross-genre piece of music conceived and composed by Leonhard Gaigg. Using various instruments such as alto, bass and contrabass clarinet, guzheng and synthesizer, and on the basis of the processing and alienation of the sounds, he creates versatile sound worlds.

Durch den Wind
Jasmin Schlögl (AT)

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | The audio work “Durch den Wind” (Through the Wind) deals with the topic of caring for people suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia. This care work is often taken over by relatives, who face enormous challenges as a result of this task. In her project, multimedia artist Jasmin Schlögl lets her 70-year-old grandmother Maria Schlögl recount her experiences when, at the age of 36, she devoted herself to caring for her dementia-stricken father-in-law.

dine.
Tariel Immler (AT), Alexander Fetz (AT), Daniel Hiebeler (AT), Jakob Defranceschi (AT), Mathias Johannsen (AT), David Graf (AT); HTL Dornbirn

Young Professionals recognition, Prix Ars Electronica 2021 | With “dine.” the young developers of HTL Dornbirn have developed a delivery service app to promote sustainable and healthy nutrition among students*. The app works via a unique system of collective orders, in which all order requests from a school or company are collected virtually and sent to the suppliers.