New Animation Art
Artificial Life & Intelligence
Digital Musics & Sound Art
u19–create your world
New Animation Art
Boris Eldagsen
Boris Eldagsen (DE) is a Berlin-based photomedia artist, he studied intermedia arts and philosophy. Being one of the internationally acclaimed experts on AI-generated images, his refusal of the Sony World Photo Awards in 2023 kicked-off a global debate about AI-generated images. His AI-image “The Electrician” became “the picture that stopped the world” (The Guardian). He exhibited at ELEKTRA Montréal, EMAF Osnabrück, New Media Scotland, BEAP Perth, Expanded.Art Berlin, MAK Wien and others. He was a lecturer at VCA Melbourne and Filmakademie Ludwigsburg, and invited for talks by over 30 universities and 20 festivals.
www.eldagsen.com
Ayoung Kim
Ayoung Kim (KR) weaves reality anew through a tapestry of hybrid narratives, integrating geopolitics, mythology, technology, and futuristic iconography in her moving image, video, VR, game simulation and performance projects. Kim has received the ACC Future Prize, National Asian Culture Center, Korea (2024), Golden Nica Award, Prix Ars Electronica (New Animation Art Category), Austria (2023), and Terayama Shuji Prize, Image Forum Festival, Japan (2023) and was a supported artist for the Korea Artist Prize, Korea (2019).
Ari Melenciano
Ari Melenciano (US) is an artist, technologist, researcher, and theorist whose work reveals the synergy between computation, cultural metacognition, and transcendental expression. She is a frequent public speaker and guest lecturer at universities around the world, sharing her research on creative and societally inquisitive uses of emerging technologies. She occasionally designs and teaches courses at universities around NYC including New York University and The Pratt Institute’s Design School. Her work has been supported and published by Sundance, The New York Times, The Studio Museum of Harlem, MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative, The Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and more.
ariciano.earth
Everardo Reyes
Everardo Reyes (FR/MX) is a Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. He directs the Master’s program in Digital Humanities, an interdisciplinary course offering specializations in creative computing, data analysis, digital archives, and hybrid environments. His research interests include digital culture, visual information, media art, and the interrelations between art, science, technology, and the humanities. He is a board member of ISEA International and has served as a program chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH conference (Art Papers 2019, Special Projects 2024, Art Gallery 2026). He is the author of The Image-Interface (Wiley, 2017) and has edited and translated several books on digital topics.
ereyes.net
Liz Rosenthal
Liz Rosenthal (UK) is Curator of the Venice Biennale’s, Venice Immersive, the Official Selection and Competition programme of Venice International Film Festival. She is an Executive Producer of award-winning immersive content and helped found and lead the CreativeXR programme. Her credits include Soul Paint (2024), Maya: The Birth of a Superhero (2024) Goliath: Playing With Reality (2021), Child of Empire (2022), (Hi)story of a Painting (2022). Liz is CEO & Founder of trail-blazing innovation company Power to the Pixel which was the first organisation to create international development, finance and exhibition programmes for immersive and interactive works. She is based out of London and is a regular keynote speaker and juror for international events and organisations.
Artificial Life & Intelligence
Clemens Apprich
Clemens Apprich (AT) is head of the Department of Media Theory as well as the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he holds the Professorship for Media Theory and History since 2021. Since fall 2023 he has been Vice-Rector for Research & Digitality. Apprich is, among other things, a member of the Assembly of Delegates of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as well as the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University.
medientheorie.uni-ak.ac.at
Charlotte Jarvis
Charlotte Jarvis’ (GB) practice explores the future of reproduction and the body as a liminal space – a site for transformation, hybridisation and magic. She is currently making “female” sperm with scientists in Leiden, a “collaborative uterus” with a team in Argentina and an artificial embryo model “parented” by an artificial intelligence in Denmark. Charlotte has exhibited her work in twelve international solo shows and over two hundred group exhibitions. Her work is on permanent display at the MIT museum in Boston and the ARS Electronica Centre in Linz. Charlotte has won the BioArt and Design Award, The Alternate Realities Commission, The EMAP EMARE residency and the European Digital Deal residency. Charlotte has published in Leonardo journal and is a research tutor at The Royal College of Art in London.
cjarvis.com
Špela Petrič
Špela Petrič (SI) is a Slovenian hybrid media artist with a background in the natural sciences. Her artistic research and practice combines biomedia and performativity to enact strange relations between bodies that question the underpinnings of our (bio)technological societies. Recently she has been busy with looking closely at automation of care in agriculture and medicine.
Simon Weckert
Simon Weckert (DE), a modern-day digital wizard and mischievous tinkerer, revels in sharing his insights on everything from generative design to physical computing – think of it as tech wizardry with a dash of social commentary. His playground? The digital world, where code and circuits aren’t just tools but ironic statements. Forget tech’s practical value; Simon’s focus is on what future generations will make of our button-pressing, app-refreshing selves. His creations are part tech, part art, and part cheeky social critique, aiming to unravel complex issues in a way that makes people laugh, think, or maybe just scratch their heads.
Raul Zbengheci
Raul Zbengheci (US) is a Romanian-American producer, organizer and director. He is currently the Deputy Director at NEW INC where he leads programming and strategy for the renowned art, design and technology program, including organizing NEW INC’s first festival, DEMO, which took place June 2023 and 2024. He specializes in live and time-based art, ranging from performance and dance to multi-media installations. Artistically, he is inspired by the passage of time, conservation, and futures many thousands of years away. He continues to explore these themes through his own works while also striving to produce and present the work of artists working in the same field. He currently lives in New York.
raulzbengheci.net
Digital Musics & Sound Art
Miriam Akkermann
Miriam Akkermann (DE) is musicologist and sound artist. Her research areas include music of the 20th and 21st century, computer music and music technology, digital musicology, musical performance practices and archiving music, as well as the effect of music on sleep. As a musician and sound artist, she is showing her compositions, sound installations, and performances internationally at festivals and concerts, most recently at the ICMC in Seoul and at PHONOS in Barcelona. Since April 2024, she holds the Ernst-von-Siemens endowed professorship for new music at FU Berlin.
Dietmar Lupfer
Dietmar Lupfer (DE) conceptualizes and curates art projects in public spaces and designs media art spaces, as well as exhibitions in the fields of robotics, bioart and new media. His works include the EU project Crash Test Dummy and Urban Mutations, blending architecture, new technologies, and media art. He co-created the mobile studio Cocobello, showcased at Venice’s 9th Architecture Biennale, and a hemisphere for Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau. He developed Sensefactory, an immersive installation, and directed performances like Skate14_14 in Berlin. As co-founder and Artistic Director of Muffatwerk and the Muffathalle Betriebs GmbH, Lupfer oversees interdisciplinary programs merging art, technology, and science, collaborating with leading artists in music, media, performance, and hybrid arts.
Ali Nikrang
Ali Nikrang (AT/IR) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher at the intersection of music and AI. He serves as a professor of AI and musical creation at the University of Music and Theatre Arts in Munich, while simultaneously working as an AI researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. He studied Computer Science at Johannes Kepler University as well as Composition and Piano at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. As a musician and AI researcher, he has carried out numerous projects that connect AI and music. His work explores the artistic possibilities of AI in music, particularly through the development of the compositional software “Ricercar”, an AI system that addresses the specific artistic demands at this intersection. His works have been showcased at a wide range of conferences and exhibitions such as the Biennale Musica in Venice (2024), the Misalignment Museum in San Francisco (2023), and the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg (2023).
Nao Tokui
Nao Tokui (JP) ist ein in Tokio ansässiger Künstler/DJ und Forscher. Er hat einen Doktortitel in Ingenieurwissenschaften und ist der CEO von Qosmo und Neutone. Die Arbeiten von Nao und seinem Team wurden bereits an renommierten Orten wie dem New Yorker MoMA und dem Barbican Centre in London ausgestellt. Ihre Performances wurden auch auf verschiedenen Musikfestivals, darunter MUTEK und Sonar, präsentiert. Außerdem leitet er die Entwicklung von KI-basierten Instrumenten in seinem neu gegründeten Unternehmen Neutone. Im Jahr 2021 erhielt Nao den Okawa Publishing Award für sein Buch über Kunst, Kreativität und KI. Das Werk wurde ins Englische übersetzt und 2023 als „Surfing human creativity with AI – A user’s guide“ veröffentlicht.
u19–create your world
Vivian Bausch
Vivian Bausch (AT) is studying Editing at HFF Munich and simultaneously pursuing a Master’s degree in Directing at the Film Academy Vienna. Her films explore identity, memory, and interpersonal dynamics. At home with my mothers examines family and motherhood, Dreaming bodies takes an experimental approach, and Ivana wants to become an actress closely examines the struggle for recognition. A part of me follows a young woman (Julia Windischbauer) confronting repressed memories of her abusive ex-stepfather, while Fallling into each other explores the fleeting yet intense connection between two grieving individuals. In 2024, Vivian Bausch and Fabian Rausch received the Carl Mayer Screenplay Award for their feature film project Soldier, which is currently in development with the production company Freibeuter as part of the ÖFI Talents Lab. In addition to her film work, she creates video installations and live performances, which have been exhibited internationally.
Clara Donat
Clara Donat (AT) studies saxophone at the Anton Bruckner Private University. She is, alongside other musicians from the independent scene, part of the working group of Minciospace, where she advocates for networking and change in the art world. As the leader of the young ensemble ‘Synergia’ and together with her duo partner Leo Gaigg, she composes and organizes interdisciplinary concerts that always address socially relevant topics. In her texts, she tries to present rarely discussed subjects in a simple way and, above all, to evoke emotions in the audience.
instagram.com/_claradonat_/
Jan G. Grünwald
Prof. Dr. Jan G. Grünwald (DE) is Professor of Didactics for Visual Arts Education at the University Mozarteum Salzburg (Innsbruck site) and Head of the Institute for Equality and Gender Studies. He is also a member of the working groups for sustainability, digitality, inclusion and diversity. His main areas of work are: Visual education, visual and everyday cultures, critical art education, gender studies, post-digitality. He is the author of Der Zweifel als produktive Möglichkeit in der kunstpädagogischen Praxis and Male Spaces – Bildinszenierungen archaischer Männlichkeiten im Black Metal. Co-author of Flickernde Jugend – Rauschende Bilder. Netzkulturen im Web 2.0. Co-editor of the forthcoming volumes Dank Images – Dank Images, Tiktok and Apokalypse. Bildhandeln im Internet and Cringe or worthy? Art and music pedagogical reflections on popular youth cultures.
Katharina Hof
Katharina Hof (AT) studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. As an art and cultural mediator, she deals with art as a tool for experiencing the world, as a method of experiencing, reflecting and relating. She sees artistic exploration as a powerful foundation for forming an independent point of view and making responsible decisions. She has worked for Ars Electronica and Kunst Haus Wien, among others. She currently works for the OeAD, the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalization, in the field of cultural mediation with schools, where she advises on digital media, film, visual arts, photography, design and architecture.
kulturvermittlung.oead.at
Conny Lee
Conny Lee (AT) works with words and feelings at the FM4 radio station, where the one is closely linked to the other. She hosts the midday show there, co-hosts the FM4 morning show, is on the road at various music festivals with special broadcasts and deals editorially with analog and digital gaming culture. In addition to her radio work, she also hosts live events, award ceremonies and congresses. Conny Lee is part of the core team on the u19–create your world jury.
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