CyberArts 2019 Prix Ars ElectronicaPrix Ars Electronica · STARTS · STARTS Prize'19 Prize’17 ars.electronica.art/prixprixars.aec.at CyberArts 2019 CyberArts Prix ArsElectronica Prix ARS ELECTRONICA ARS Art, Technology &Society Art, Technology S+T+ARTS Prize'19 CyberArts 2019 Prix Ars Electronica S+T+ARTS Prize'19 ARS ELECTRONICA Art, Technology & Society Hannes Leopoldseder · Christine Schöpf · Gerfried Stocker CyberArts 2019 Prix Ars Electronica 2019 Computer Animation · Artificial Intelligence & Life Art Digital Musics & Sound Art · u19–create your world STARTS Prize'19 Grand Prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts Contents Prix Ars Electronica 2019 10 Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker – Prix Ars Electronica 2019 12 Hannes Leopoldseder – Turning Point: At the Dawn of a New World COMPUTER ANIMATION 20 Extending Screens: Extending Vision – Statement of the Computer Animation Jury 24 Kalina Bertin, Sandra Rodriguez, Nicolas S. Roy, Fred Casia – ManicVR · Golden Nica 28 Ruini Shi – Strings 30 Cindy Coutant – Undershoot, sensitive data: Cristiano 32 Studio Job, Joris & Marieke – A Double Life 34 Tomek Popakul – ACID RAIN 36 Siyeon Kim / ARTLab – City Rhythm 38 Martina Scarpelli – Egg 40 Universal Everything – Emergence 42 Sam Gainsborough – Facing It 44 Lilli Carré, David Sprecher – Huskies 46 Michael Frei, Mario von Rickenbach / Playables – KIDS 48 Theo Triantafyllidis – Nike 50 Réka Bucsi – Solar Walk 52 Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis / Fresnoy – Swatted 54 Romain Tardy – The Great Indecision Council ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & LIFE ART 58 Life’s Intelligence, beyond Human Cognition – Statement of the Artificial Intelligence & Life Art Jury 64 Paul Vanouse – Labor · Golden Nica 68 Špela Petrič – Confronting Vegetal Otherness 70 Adam Harvey – VFRAME: Visual Forensics and Metadata Extraction 72 Eduardo Reck Miranda – Biocomputer Rhythms 74 Anaïs Tondeur in collaboration with Rita van Dingenen and Jean-Philippe Putaud JRC, European Commission – Carbon Black 76 Nora Al-Badri, Jan Nikolai Nelles – Fossil Futures 78 Patrick Tresset – Human Study #4, La Classe 80 Adam Brown – [ir]reverent: Miracles on Demand 82 Anna Ridler – Mosaic Virus 84 Jiwon Woo – Mother’s Hand Taste (Son-mat) 86 Agnes Meyer-Brandis – One Tree ID – How To Become A Tree For Another Tree 88 Christina Agapakis of Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Sissel Tolaas, with support from IFF Inc. – Resurrecting the Sublime 90 Kris De Decker, Marie Otsuka, Roel Roscam Abbing, Lauren Traugott-Campbell Solar Powered Website 92 Mushon Zer-Aviv, Dan Stavy, Eran Weissenstern – The Normalizing Machine 96 Tagny Duff – Wastelands DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART 98 Immersive Experiences and (Political) Silence. What are the Sound Realities now? Statement of the Digital Musics & Sound Art Jury 104 Peter Kutin – TORSO #1 · Golden Nica 108 Samson Young – Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th 110 Tomomi Adachi, Andreas Dzialocha, Marcello Lussana Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation 112 Patrik Lechner – Anastrophe 114 Christian Skjødt – ÆTER 116 panGenerator – APPARATUM 118 Stine Janvin – fake synthetic music 120 Francisco López – MANTRAcks and Sonic Fields: A VirtuAural Duology 122 SHOJIKI – “Play Back” Curing Tapes 124 Speak Percussion, Philip Samartzis, Eugene Ughetti – Polar Force 126 Åsa Stjerna– Sky Brought Down 128 Evelina Rajca – Smart.ing Bodies 130 The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA – The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA stay 132 Alexander Schubert – Wiki-Piano.Net 134 Haein Kang – Wind from Nowhere u19–create your world 138 Every Day is Friday: Create your Future—Create your Present! Statement of the u19–create your world Jury Young Professionals 144 Alex Lazarov – DSCHUNGEL · Golden Nica 146 Tessa Aichelburg, Luis Hofmeister, Lukas Kaufmann, Paul Schreiber Rake – Minimize your Information 147 Students from HLW für Kommunikations- und Mediendesign der Kreuzschwestern Linz Gift of Nature 148 Antonia Beck, Tobias Gruber, Clemens Makoschitz, Tobias Micko, Sebastian Schreibmaier Tweakr.io – Drop your file, improve your work · netidee SPECIAL PRIZE 2019 150 Felix Nikolas Bauernfeind, Julian Josef Kienast – Augmented Reality Welding Assistant 151 Jaqueline Eder, Selina Maurovich, Kilian Mayer, Stephanie Stigler – Blue Moon 152 Katharina Maunz – ERROR_351 153 Students of the visual arts program at BORG Mistelbach – Fremdkörper #3 154 Sarah Reischenböck, Julia Schober – JUSA–HTL. A 3D Computer Game 155 Zoe Borzi, Johannes Fischer, Nicolas Glockner-Lösch, Nikolaus Heckel, Jonathan Steininger, Raphael Wohlgemuth – Kunst und Überleben 156 Thomas Speckhofer – LEGO Feuer und Wasser 157 Thomas Brych, Michael Franz Hitzker, Tim-Matthias Klecka, Markus Kurzmann – OpenDrone 158 Students from BORG Bad Leonfelden – Shape of you 159 Simon Mück – Surprise Me 160 Fabian Farkas, Jan Hofbauer, Hannah Koch, Tristan Nitzsche, Florian Weihs – Turenia Young Creatives 162 Students from NMS Hittisau’s CyberWerkstatt – Digitaler Mordversuch 163 Benjamin Aster – Plottegoino 164 3a class from NMS Liefering – Why war Rap 165 Film class of the SchülerInnenschule im WUK – Über Nacht – Eine neue Macht 166 Dungeon of Math – Simon Heppner 167 Katharina Landl, Mona Rathenböck– Nachhaltigkeit – Tagesablauf eines tierischen Vorbildes 168 Laurin Steinhuber, Amelie Steinhuber, Niklas Steinhuber – Der Gobi kommt 169 Mina Sophie Hackl – get_bullied! 170 Students of the “Grüne Familie” elementary school class, Europaschule Linz ABC-Coding (Activity Based Coding) 171 Prix Ars Electronica 2019—Jury Contents STARTS Prize'19 Innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology and the ARTS 180 STARTS—Science, Technology and the ARTS – Introduction 182 Poesis into Praxis: Hybrid Creative Activisms – Joint statement of the STARTS Prize Jury and the STARTS Prize Nomination Committee STARTS Prize'19 · GRAND PRIZE · Artistic Exploration 188 Bjørn Karmann, Tore Knudsen – Project Alias Rename your home assistant and make sure it never listens. STARTS Prize'19 · GRAND PRIZE · Innovative Collaboration 192 300.000 Km/s – Ciutat Vella’s Land-use Plan Big Data, KDD and Citizen Participation to Ensure Coexistence between Economic Activity and Citizens’ Quality of Life STARTS Prize'19 · HONORARY MENTIONS 198 Kate Crawford / AI Now Institute and Vladan Joler / SHARE Lab Anatomy of an AI System 200 Thydêwá – Arte Eletrônica Indígena 202 Eduardo Reck Miranda – Biocomputer Rhythms 204 BCL – Georg Tremmel and Shiho Fukuhara – BLP-2000 / Black List Printer 206 Fernando Bello, ICCESS & Salomé Bazin, Cellule studio – SimCath 208 Sabine Engelhardt – SLAP – See Like A Pony 210 Forensic Architecture – The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas 212 Jen Keane – This is grown. STARTS Prize'19 · NOMINATIONS 216 Mathias Foot, Janna Nikoleit, Franziska Rast, Stephan Schakulat – 30° 217 Alex Braga – A-MINT 218 Hakan Lidbo – Alterplex 219 United Visual Artists – Beholder 220 Tim Murray-Browne in collaboration with Dom Aversano, Susanna Garcia, Wallace Hobbes, Daniel Lopez, Tadeo Sendon, Panagiotis Tigas, Kacper Ziemianin – Cave of Sounds 221 Joon Moon – Hello, Shadow! 222 Institute for Sound & Music (ISM) – ISM Hexadome 223 Ayako Suwa, Evala, Yasuaki Kakehi – Journey on the Tongue 224 onformative, kling klang klong – Meandering River 225 Superflux – Mitigation of Shock 226 Jie Qi, Carol Lin, May Qi, Ira Winder – PatentPandas.org 227 Kris De Decker, Marie Otsuka, Roel Roscam Abbing, Lauren Traugott-Campbell Solar Powered Website 228 Studio Roosegaarde – SPACE WASTE LAB 229 Idalene Rapp, Natascha Unger– Stone Web – Expanding Space 230 Denny Koch, Johannes Schubert – Stop-Motion VR 231 CuteCircuit – SoundShirt 2.0 232 Thijs Biersteker – Voice of Nature 233 Tagny Duff – Wastelands 235 STARTS Prize'19—Jury 237 STARTS Prize'19—Nomination Committee 239 STARTS Prize'19—International Advisors PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2019 Prix Ars Electronica 2019 Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker These are the facts and figures of the 33rd edition ular interest, as are projects that critically reflect of Prix Ars Electronica: 3,256 entries from 82 the cultural and social significance of AI and life countries in the categories Computer Animation, sciences, their ethical and philosophical dimen- Digital Musics & Sound Art, u19–create your world sion as well as the role of policy makers, govern- for young people throughout Austria, and in the ments, and industry. new category Artificial Intelligence & Life Art, While in the early years the Prix Ars Electron- introduced for the first time in 2019. ica was largely a search for a place within the Established in 1987 and based on an idea by fledgling area of media/computer art, it has now Hannes Leopoldseder from the Austrian Broad- evolved into an annual international trend barom- casting Corporation (ORF), Prix Ars Electronica has eter for a wide variety of artistic approaches. It become the world’s largest continuously held brings together artists and scientists from various competition for digital art. countries and cultures as well as creative people The year 2019 saw a number of innovations in Prix from diverse fields: developers of new interfaces Ars Electronica, including the splitting of the youth and artist-scientists exploring the area of life art category u19–create your world into two indepen- and artificial intelligence are joined by activists dent categories: Young Creatives (up to age 14) experimenting with social networks and sound and Young Professionals (age 14 to 19). This artists whose designs provide us with new audi- change reflects the significant increase in profes-