Animation Festival 2019
DIGITAL MEDIA, HAGENBERG CAMPUS
A behind-the-times fisherman leaves the safe harbor and sets outs to the open sea, two mail carriers deliver a huge eccentric package, a figure with an old-fashioned monitor plays a special version of the game rock-paper-scissors, a woman gets lost in a roundabout, and a gorilla eavesdrops on the conversation of two meerkats. This program features a selection of recent student works, ranging from narrative shorts to experimental animations, from the Digital Media Department at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Hagenberg.
Deep Space 8K
The Ars Electronica Center offers its visitors something that cannot be found anywhere else in the world: 16 x 9 meters of wall and another 16 x 9 meters of floor projection, laser tracking and 3D-animations make the Deep Space 8K something very special indeed.
VR SHOWCASE
This program features a special selection of VR works that have been submitted to the Computer Animation category of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica. Visitors can emerge themselves into several presented projects.
Immersify 8K Live Streaming Demo
The Immersify 8K Live Streaming Demo will premiere a real-time transmission of 8K content in the immersive environment that is Deep Space 8K. The encoder and decoder functionalities that are necessary for such an ambitious streaming demonstration have been developed in the context of the European research project Immersify. Immersify partner Spin Digital is providing flexible and high-performance software 8K playback on PC platforms with the software player Spin Player, while the Advantech VEGA encoder platform and streaming via public internet complete the setup. Lastly, Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center provides an impressive media environment for the pioneering demonstration. In collaboration with NHK Technologies, a live stream will be demonstrated from Japan to Linz, and with PSNC, an 8K stream from Poznan in Poland to Deep Space 8K, each with special content.
VH AWARD
by Hyundai Motor Group (KR)
The VH AWARD’s purpose is to uncover promising Korean artists creating media art. It seeks to support the art-making process of these young media artists but to also help them gain international recognition. To guarantee a fair evaluation, award winners will be selected by highly celebrated curators from all around the world. In addition, the winners will have the opportunity to display their works of art through the 24.4-meter-long media wall, located at the Hyundai Motor Group University.
ANIFILM PRESENTS: CZECH ANIMATION NOW
In this selection of short films, you can discover brand new Czech creations. It is a very diverse portfolio of contemporary Czech production offering shorts by students, films by experienced authors, and experimental works. Since one of the main goals of Anifilm is to cover all domestic creations, the Czech Horizon (Český obzor) competition category was established recently. All of the films presented here took part in that national contest.
YOUNG ANIMATIONS
Gifted young filmmakers annually submit their weird, subtle, witty, utopian, critical and dystopian works for consideration to the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 — CREATE YOUR WORLD category (AT), bugnplay.ch (CH), mb21 (DE) and C3<19 (HU). The greatest hits are featured in Young Animations.
STUDIO FEATURE: PLATIGE IMAGE
Platige Image is an award-winning film production, VFX, animation and post-production company based in Warsaw, Poland. They work for the biggest brands in the world, the best video game publishers and some of the finest film directors. They started out as a studio composed of a dozen or so people producing mainly commercials and music videos. Gradually, they developed their team and expanded their portfolio with short films, cinematics, 3D live theatre sets, VFX for live action movies and special projects, such as museum installations.
tx-reverse 360°
Virgil Widrich (AT), Martin Reinhart (AT)
20 years after Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich used this film technique for the first time in a short film (tx-transform, 1998), they again deal with the question of what previously unseen world arises when space and time are interchanged, in a cinema at full 360°.
LSI Project
Franz Fischnaller (IT)
LSI is an immersive experimental digital narrative and virtual storytelling in 8K, based on The Last Supper (Italian: L'Ultima Cena), a late 15th century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci located in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
