Animation Festival 2019
DATA NARRATION
This program seeks to raise some sociological and ecological questions. Visualizations of air pollution, maritime data, artistic research into diabetes, and an analysis of group dynamics are among the topics. It also asks what happens when humans and AI mutate into a single consciousness.
MUSIC & VISUALS
A dance performance by a group of snails on the wing of an airplane, an indecisive woman sitting in front of her letter of resignation, a car ride through a dreamy desert landscape, aesthetically staged growth processes of organic forms, or dancing mochis. This program contains music videos and various experimental forms of picture-sound synthesis in different animation techniques.
NOLANDX
Ulf Langheinrich (DE)
*NOLANDX* is an audiovisual composition. The aesthetic nucleus of the work are the image planes, algorithmically generated noise and lines as well as recordings of sea waves. This referential source material is transformed by slit-scan and other interventions on the time level. The result is a pulsating, stereoscopically black and white space: immersion in the interworld.
LSF-500 – Project
Franz Fischnaller (IT)
Immersive digital exhibit showcasing Gigapixel images in 8K, up to 28350x40160 px, made of over fourteen of Leonardo da Vinci’s works comprising, among others: the universally renowned Portrait of an Old Man, the Head of a Young Woman, also known as the “Mona Lisa of drawings,” the notable Codex on the Flight of Birds, donated by Theodor Sabachnikov to King Humbert I in 1893, containing Leonardo’s drawings of flying machines and the Hidden Portrait, Leonardo da Vinci's alleged self-portrait discovered in the Codex on the Flight of Birds.
Liquidus
Roman Divotkey (AT), Nora Loimayr (AT), Christoph Schaufler (AT), Wolfram Weingartner (AT)
*Liquidus* is an interactive, physics-based fluid simulation that turns Deep Space into a playful laboratory to experiment with various properties of liquids and gases. Data for the physics calculations are processed and visualized in real-time and are also utilized to create a soundscape that supports the overall visual experience.
Eruptions
Suyang Kim (KR), Dieter Stemmer (AT), Marlene Reischl (AT), Christian Philip Berger (AT)
Emotional outbursts and eruptive climaxes dominate this program both musically and visually.
Deep Quiz
Andrea Aschauer (AT), Jeremiah Diephuis (US), Jürgen Hagler (AT), Wolfgang Hochleitner (AT), Georgi Kostov (BG), Gabriel Mittermair (AT)
*Deep Quiz* transforms the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space into an interactive TV-like game show. The application combines physical exercise, group dynamics and learning as an exciting, playful assessment performance that entertains the audience with one central question: just how much do you know?
Che si può fare?
Monica Vlad (RO) with guest Johanna Falkinger (AT)
The theme of this performance is based on feelings of melancholy, sadness, fear of loss, meditation and anger and how music can be used to express and release these emotions.
384
Valentina Cinquini (IT), Andrea Ummarino (IT), Federico Perinelli (IT), Raphael Schuster (AT), derkleinstePrinz (ES)
384 is a project that combines live music with interactive visual projections. The concept is built upon extemporization, using live improvisation – both musical and graphical. Nobody, not even the artists, can tell what is going to happen. Every performance is unique and unrepeatable. A tribute to being part of a unique, creative artistic experience.
subassemblies
Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP)
Audiovisual concert, 2019 subassemblies is a project that pursues the relationship between natural and human-made structures through a perspective of architectural scale. It consists of several different presentation formats such as concert, installation, prints (sculptures) and screening.
