Animation Festival 2019

Animation Festival Screenings
The seventeen programs of this year’s Ars Electronica Animation Festival are once again an international showcase of excellence in current digital filmmaking. Visitors can experience these programs in several screening rooms at the POSTCITY, Art Thinking House.

Electronic Theatre
The program shows the prize-winning works selected by the jury and showcases current productions from an artistic, substantial, cultural, and cutting-edge technological perspective.

Animation Festival @ Deep Space 8K - Part 2
Serial Parallels | Influencers | In Trance It | Beauty = Function

Animation Festival @ Deep Space 8K - Part 1
Boy transcoded from phosphene | Promenade (excerpt) | WHERE DO WE GO | Seven Experiments in Procedural Animation | tx-reverse

Expanded Animation – OUT OF THE BOX
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg Campus (AT), Ars Electronica (AT)
In collaboration with the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus, the 7th Expanded Animation symposium carries on a process launched in 2013 — mapping the wide-ranging domain of animated worlds of imagery beyond the well-trodden paths. 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.

Immersify
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PL), Spin Digital Video Technologies GmbH (DE), Ars Electronica Futurelab (AT), Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes (FR), Visualization Center C (SE)
Immersify is a European Research & Development consortium funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 program, connecting the Ars Electronica Futurelab with four other European partners to research the next generation of immersive media. At the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival, Immersify presents selected works at Deep Space 8K.

Why are we creative?
Hermann Vaske (DE)
Why are we creative? Does it run in our blood? Do we create in order to make ourselves immortal? Is it a reckless compulsion? Or is it simply a way to make a buck?

JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2019
The Japan Media Arts Festival honors outstanding works in a wide variety of media in four categories: art, entertainment, animation and manga. This program consists of various excellent films singled out for recognition by the 2019 Japan Media Arts Festival.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CREATIVE AWARD
ISCA (International Students Creative Award) is an international arts and information media competition for universities, graduate schools and vocational schools, sponsored by the Knowledge Capital Association. It is an international competition open to students from Japan and around the globe.

ANIMATIONSINSTITUT OF THE FILM ACADAMY BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG
Animationsinstitut, part of Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg, is one of the world’s leading film schools, offering the areas of study “Animation Artist,” “Effects Artist,” “Animation/Effects Producing,” “Technical Directing,” and “Interactive Media.” This screening features some of the latest and greatest student projects realized at Animationsinstitut.