Computer Animation

Prix Forum: Interactive Art +

José-Carlos Mariategui (PE/GB), Cristhian Avila (PE), Jung Hsu (TW), Natalia Rivera (CO), Sam Lavigne (US), Tega Brain (AU)

The Prix Forum – Interactive Art + is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2022 and a jury member.

Prix Forum: Computer Animation

Isabelle Avers (FR), Marc Héricher (FR), Rashaad Newsome (US), Yoriko Mizushiri (JP)

The Prix Forum – Computer Animation is an open discussion between the top three winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2022 and a jury member. Rashaad Newsome (Golden Nica / Being), Marc Hericher (Award of Distinction / Absence), and Yoriko Mizushiri (Awards of Distincion/ Anxious Body) will be on the panel, while juror Isabelle Arvers will chair the session.

Expanded Animation Symposium

Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (AT)

Hosted by the Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, the Expanded Animation Symposium will be examining the vast and constantly evolving field of animation and its myriad connections to other disciplines.

FRUIT ART... REAL Vs.-VIRTUAL LIFE (FA-RVsVR)

Franz Fischnaller (IT)

Exploring How Nature Makes Fiction Come Alive – 8K 3D Stereo Gigapixel immersive fruit art-based experience, gravitating around the invisible world of fruits. Visitors are virtually transferred “inside”.

Cooperative Aesthetics

Carlotta Borcherding (DE), Axel Bräuer (AT), Ariathney Coyne (AT), Joann Lee (KR), Katherine Romero (CO), Emilia Vogt (DE), Friederike Weber (DE)

The interactive artworks under the title „Cooperative Aesthetics“ were created at the Art University of Linz by students of Timebased and Interactive Media Arts and Interface Culture under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Gerhard Funk and Sen.Artist Holunder Heiß. Using the lasertracking system of the Ars Electronica Deep Space they enable visitors to have a collective, audiovisual, aesthetic experience.

un ctrl

Daniel Kohlmeigner (AT), Martin Retschitzegger (AT), Cat Jimenez (AT) 

un ctrl is an intertwining performance between a musician, a dancer and a visual artist.

Ars Electronica ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2022

After two very challenging years, the Ars Electronica Animation Festival returns to its physical space. The screening programs and presentations will be shown at the JKU Campus and the Ars Electronica Center Deep Space 8K. The Expanded Animation Symposium and the Synaesthetic Syntax conference, organized with the UCA since 2020, will take place at the Ars Electronica Center.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival: Being

Rashaad Newsome (US)

Being (2022) is a nonbinary, non-race AI created by combining animation game engines, scripted responses, generative grammars and unique machine-learning models.