animation

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.

Undershoot, sensitive data: Cristiano

Cindy Coutant (FR)

In Undershoot, sensitive data: Cristiano, soccer star Cristian Ronaldo is the center of attention. Using text commands, Cindy Coutant interacts with a virtual Ronaldo. She remotely feeds the character (input), who then acts and transforms the submitted text (output). With this supposedly interactive project, the artist addresses the deeply human need to feel connected to someone with all our senses – be it real or just virtual.

Manic VR

Kalina Bertin (CA), Sandra Rodriguez (CA), Nicolas S. Roy (CA), Fred Casia (CA)

ManicVR is an impressive narrative about the complex world of people with bipolar disorder. The two siblings Felicia and François Bertin are themselves affected by the mental illness. They have been using the voicemail of their sister, filmmaker Kalina Bertin, as a personal diary for three years now.

Animation Festival @ Deep Space 8K - Part 2

Serial Parallels | Influencers | In Trance It | Beauty = Function

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Tromarama – Febie Babyrose (ID), Herbert Hans (ID), Ruddy Hatumena (ID)

This video is about reunion; there are three mugs, which always appear in the video that represents the three of us. We can see all the tableware run away through the fence and play around in the park, but at the end of the day they must go back into the cupboard and be ordinary tableware again. This video expresses how we felt at that time, when our daily routine at the office occupied our playing time.

Animation Festival @ Deep Space 8K - Part 1

Boy transcoded from phosphene | Promenade (excerpt) | WHERE DO WE GO | Seven Experiments in Procedural Animation | tx-reverse

Ars Electronica ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2019

As every year, Ars Electronica Animation Festival is a condensed best-of of current productions in digital filmmaking, selected from the entries of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica, the international competition for cyber arts in the computer animation category. Trends of the last few years are continuing with further growth in AI-related themes, VR productions, installative works, large scale mappings, and interactive elements.

Hyperscreen [Testpattern]

Dawid Liftinger (AT)

A search for the limit of the technical boundaries of the media façade at the threshold of human perception; redeeming their promise as fast, colorful pictures. Every “pixel” always changes every frame. Flicker, no pause, high-contrast: everything is always on. This is noise for the eyes.

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.

Symmetry

Lee Sooyeun (KR)

An animation that considers the reflections of the media façade in the Danube. Simple shapes, sinus waves, mandala patterns that double in the water.