Ars Electronica Center, Seminar Room

Electronic Theatre is the annual best-of program, a compilation of outstanding animations chosen by the Prix jury from the submitted works in the “New Animation Art” category. It is a diverse showcase, blending video, performance, game simulations and AI-generated imagery engaging new ways of thinking about how we experience the digital-virtual-real world we live in.

AI & Human. Who Owns the Truth? is a unique showcase approaching topical disputes of our time, from data ownership and ethics of data harvesting to authorship in the age of AI, love in time of crypto, deepfakes and image credibility.

Data, Bodies, Space shows an intriguing mix of different animation art practices, dealing with the “glitches” of our digitality-virtuality-reality condition. From nightmarish dystopian scenarios to speculative more-than-human ecologies, you are transported into a sensuous imaginary cyberspace, filled with hybrid beings, ambiguous heroes, data bodies and networked selves.

Austrian Panorama highlights recent animation works of local artists. The selected shorts offer a meditative-poetic, inquisitive, and sometimes even humorous glimpse at more than human worlds, in which the organic and the digital are inseparably intertwined.

transmediale festival Berlin presents a series of video works developed by the festival’s artists-in-residence. examining the legacy of technocolonial violence and the blurred lines between reality and digital worlds. Onset depicts a demon’s exploration of synthetic environments created from satellite images of military bases.

Animation Festival Special Night is an entertaining mix-match showcase blending shorts from the different screening programs of this year’s Animation Festival. The screenings will run in parallel with Futurelab Night Performances. The night will continue with a joint celebration by Ars Electronica Futurelab & Ars Electronica Animation Festival at Stadtwerkstatt Linz.