at the Ars Electronica Festival 2023
Every year since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has spotlighted media artworks from all over the world and served as a trend barometer offering inspiring, current and forward-looking insights into the interface between art, technology and society.
The Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, which showcases the works of the Prix Ars Electronica winners, is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the Ars Electronica Festival and will take place at POSTCITY, the festival’s main venue.
The Ars Electronica Awards Ceremony, featuring the Golden Nica winners in all categories, will take place on September 7 at the POSTCITY Train Hall (by invitation only).
The Ars Electronica Animation Festival with a selection from the Prix Ars Electronica 2023 – New Animation Art category and the Expanded Animation Symposium, which includes Prix Forum: New Animation Art, will be held September 8-10 at the Ars Electronica Center.
The Prix Forum, artist talks and discussion with the winners of each category, will be held on September 10 in the POSTCITY Conference Hall.
Other performances by the winners will be held at the Opening Event and at the Prix Ars Electronica exhibition. Don’t miss the schedule!
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A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America’s Andean Plains
Atractor Estudio (CO) + Semantica Productions (INT)
A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America’s Andean Plains is a sound installation that explores the expansion of the current technical agro-industrial colonization in Latin America. The work uses subterranean and surface recordings of the soil and recordings of electrical conductivity in the soy and amaranth plants to present a sonic…
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Animation Festival Special Night
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.
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Animation Festival: AI & Human. Who Owns the Truth?
Nikita Diakur (DE), Operator (US/DE), Theresa Reiwer (DE), Ruini Shi (CN), Antanas Skučas (LT) & Julius Zubavičius (LT)
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.
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Animation Festival: Austrian Panorama
Reinhold Bidner (AT), Daniel Denzer (AT/DE), Siegfried A. Fruhauf (AT), Claudia Larcher (AT), Marius Oelsch (AT), Anna Mutschlechner-Dean (AT), Herwig Scherabon (AT/DE), Rita Weiss (AT), Alessa Wolfram (AT)
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.
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Animation Festival: Data, Bodies, Space
Jonathan Armour (IE), Ina Conradi (US/SG) and Mark Chavez (US), Maxime Chudeau (FR) Jieyuan Huang (CN/AT/DE), Bassam Issa (IE), Junha Kim (KR), Dorian Rigal Minuit (FR), Ryotaro Sato (JP), Wang & Söderström (SE)
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.
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Animation Festival: Electronic Theatre
Alice Brygo (FR), Ayoung Kim (KR), Bassam Issa (IE), Rebecca Merlic (HR/AT), Laen Sanches (FR), Ruini Shi (CN), Sven Windzus (DE)
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.
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Animation Festival: transmediale Guest Program
Alice Bucknell (US/UK), Anna Engelhardt (RU/UK), Mark Cinkevich (BY/PL), Sahej Rahal (IN), Natasha Tontey (ID)
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.
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Animation Festival: Young Animations
A collaboration between Ars Electronica and OeAD, curated by Sirikit Amann (AT)
A collaboration between Ars Electronica and OeAD, curated by Sirikit Amann (AT). Like every year, the work of talented filmmakers up to the age of nineteen is celebrated in the category Young Animation. The program is a selection of short films created by young artists across Austria.
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Award Ceremony (with invitation only)
The spotlight is on the artists and initiatives, prizewinners of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica, S+T+ARTS Prize’23 and the winners of the great new prizes from the European Union and our cooperation partners.
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Award Ceremony u19–create your world
Ars Electronica (AT)
This Award Ceremony brings together all the winners of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica u19-create your world category. Not only will the young winners’ projects be presented and they will receive their prizes, but they will also be able to share their own enthusiasm in short interviews.
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Delivery Dancer’s Sphere
Golden Nica for New Animation Art
The algorithm-centric, hypervigilant economy of platform labour urges delivery drivers to defy space and time to meet the demands of fastest deliveries. Ernst Mo rushes with the speed of light through a labyrinth of endlessly shifting paths in techno-futuristic Seoul.
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Expanded Animation Symposium
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus (AT) and the Ars Electronica Festival in cooperation with the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham (UK)
The 11th edition of the Expanded Animation Symposium is a three-day event featuring several international artists, researchers, and developers who will discuss—in a live setting—topics related to this year’s theme, “The Art of Performance.” This year’s symposium features several programs: the panels Art & Industry, Artist Position, Performative Acts, and Virtual Stages, the Synaesthetic Syntax…
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Expanded Animation: Art & Industry
Vladimír Kudělka (CZ), Immerea OG (AT), Christopher Salter (US/CH)
The Art & Industry panel features exciting perspectives on animated shorts, VR experiences, games and interactive installations. XR developers Flavia Mazzanti (IT/BR/AT) & Manuel Bonell (IT/BR) from media company Immerea will discuss interdisciplinary approaches in the Creative Industries, Christopher Salter will focus on mixed reality-based experiences in his theatre project Animate, and Vladimír Kudělka (CZ)…
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Expanded Animation: Artist Position
Miwa Matreyek (US/CA), Akiko Nakayama (JP), Helen Starr (UK)
Canada-based media artist Miwa Matreyek (US/CA), winner of the Golden Nica in the Prix category Computer Animation in 2020, and Japanese artist Akiko Nakayama (JP) will present and discuss their works, spanning from live drawing to merging live performance, sculpture and animation. Helen Starr (UK), one of the jury members of the new category “New…
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Expanded Animation: ASIFA Austria Forum
Fanni Fazakas (HU/NZ), Pedro Harres (BR/DE), Kris Hofmann (AT)
Pedro Harres (BR/DE) will give an overview of the lessons he learned over the four years of making his 2D animated, interactive VR-piece “From the Main Square.” Fanni Fazakas discusses the potential of XR to elevate the stories of underprivileged or underrepresented people and to work as a tool for social change.
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Expanded Animation: Performative Acts
Stefan Schwingeler (DE), gold extra (AT), ANIMA PLUS (AT)
The Performative Acts Panel will start with a talk about counter-gaming and artistic performance in video arts by media theorist and game scholar Stephan Schwingeler. After that, artist collective gold extra will offer their insights into creative processes – from metaverse experiences to digital theatre. The panel concludes with the introduction of ANIMA PLUS, a…
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Expanded Animation: Virtual Stages
Rebecca Merlic (HR/AT), PlayOn! (UK), minus.eins (DE)
Rebecca Merlic will introduce and discuss her works, in particular the experimental game GLITCHBODIES, awarded with an Honorary Mention. Artist collective minus.eins and Lucy Hammond and Dirk Neldner, both actively involved in the EU-funded project PlayOn! New Storytelling with Immersive Technologies, will delve further into the possibilities of digital theatre and offer insights from their…
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klimaton ARCTIC≈2020: Sound of the data from the Arctic
Adnan Softić and Nina Softić (feat. Thies Mynther & MOSAiC Expedition Team) (INT)
klimaton ARCTIC≈2020 addresses the problem of communicability of scientific facts in the context of climate change in the form of a generative sound object.
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Meet the Artist: Rebecca Merlic
GLITCHBODIES (Honorary Mention for New Animation Art 2023) is an interactive game and multiplatform project encompassing new forms of feminism, LGBTQ+ and Drag transformations. While playing the game, participants become part of an interactive digital space.
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Opening of Ars Electronica and IDSA FOUNDING LAB
On the evening of the first day of the festival, the return to POSTCITY will be duly celebrated with live performances in POSTCITY’s train hall.
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OSZILOT
Luc Gut (CH), Rolf Hellat (CH)
OSZILOT is a hybrid of sound installation and performance. Everyday objects suspended from strings are transformed into oscillating sound objects via movement sensors.
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Prix Forum – Artificial Intelligence & Life Art
Winnie Soon (HK/UK), Oron Catts (AU), Adam Brown (US), Manuela Naveau (AT)
Artificial Intelligence & Life Art will feature Winnie Soon (HK/UK) of the Unerasable Characters Series, winner of the Golden Nica. Adam Brown (US), Award of Distinction for Shadows from the Walls of Death and Oron Catts (AU) and Steve Berrick (AU) of the 3SDC project (Sunlight, Soil & Shit (De)Cycle) will follow as speakers.
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Prix Forum – Digital Musics & Sound Art
Juan Cortés (CO), Julia Jasmin Rommel (DE), Alba Triana (CO), Asher Remy-Toledo (CO/US)
In Digital Musics & Sound Art, Juan Cortés from Atractor Estudio, winner of the Golden Nica for A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America’s Andean Plains, will speak. Alba Triana of Harmonic Motion, winner of the Award of Distinction and Julia Jasmin Rommel of zwischenraum – interspace – acoustic cartography will…
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Prix Forum – New Animation Art
Ayoung Kim (KR), Bassam Issa (IE), SANGHEE (KR), Nóra Ó Murchú (IE), Helen Starr (UK)
Prix Forum New Animation Art will feature Golden Nica winner Ayoung Kim (KR), Award of Distinction Bassam Issa (IE) and SANGHEE (KR) as speakers. The panel will be moderated by Jury members Nóra Ó Murchú (IE) and Helen Starr (UK)
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Shadows From the Walls of Death: Bioremediating Green Performance
Adam Brown (US)
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Shadows from the Walls of Death: Green Synthesis
Adam Brown (US)
Shadows from the Walls of Death is a long-term artwork that investigates the historical, chemical, and material agency of Paris Green, one of the most toxic pigments ever produced. This series explores the industrial overuse of heavy metals that resulted in the contamination of human and non-human ecologies. Paris Green, a copper arsenic pigment, revolutionized…
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Shadows from the Walls of Death: Remediating Green Shadows
Adam Brown (US)
Shadows from the Walls of Death is a long-term artwork that investigates the historical, chemical, and material agency of Paris Green, one of the most toxic pigments ever produced. This series explores the industrial overuse of heavy metals that resulted in the contamination of human and non-human ecologies. Paris Green, a copper arsenic pigment, revolutionized…
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Spotlight Tour: Prix Ars Electronica
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The tour explores the Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, a showcase of this year’s award-winning media art.
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Sunlight: YES (3SDC Documentary Preview Screening)
Kenta McGrath (AU), Joseph London (AU)
A preview screening of a documentary about the Sunlight, Soil and Shit (De)Cycle (or 3SDC) project by Oron Catts (AU), Steve Berrick (AU) and Dr. Ionat Zurr (AU) – winner of the Award of Distinction for Artificial Intelligence & Life Art at Prix Ars Electronica.
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Synaesthetic Syntax Conference
Camille Baker (UK) | Ghislaine Boddington (UK) | Louis-Philippe Demers (CA/QA) | Johannes DeYoung (US) | Juergen Hagler (AT) | Max Hattler (DE/HK) | Birgitta Hosea (SE/UK) | Friedrich Kirschner (DE) | Rameshnath Krishnasamy (DK) | Julian Salhofer (AT) | Tomo Sone (JP) | Lana Tankosa Nikolic (DK) | Varvara & Mar Creative Studio – Varvara Guljajeva (EE/HK) & Mar Canet Sola (ES/EE) | Leoni Voegelin (DE) | Bill Vorn (CA) | Darren Woodland (US)
The fourth edition of Synaesthetic Syntax will feature several perspectives on haptic bodies, agency, the “live element” and process in the context of performance, closing with a keynote talk by Ghislaine Boddington.
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TRIPTYCH
Robin Fox (AU)
Triptych is a fulcrum between past and future, which uses the present as a catapult.