ARS ELECTRONICA Festival 2019

THU September 5 – MON September 9 POSTCITY , Art Thinking House ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2019

The Animation Festival has been a mainstay of Ars Electronica since 2005. Offerings include an extensive lineup of screenings and diverse events related to animation. The Expanded Animation symposium explores current artistic and theoretical positions. Rounding out the program are various exhibits and installations in the CyberArts exhibition in OÖ Kulturquartier and Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center.

For the first time, the Animation Festival is situated in the POSTCITY Festival Area. The unique location of the “Art Thinking House” building provides a special atmosphere for the screening settings this year.

SCREENING PROGRAM ELECTRONIC THEATRE → Sommerkino, Movie 1 and OÖ Kulturquartier...... 3 ANIMATION FESTIVAL SCREENING → POSTCITY, Art Thinking House ...... 4 DEEP SPACE 8K → Ars Electronica Center ...... 13

SYMPOSIUM EXPANDED ANIMATION AND PRIX FORUM → POSTCITY, Art Thinking Stage . . . . 14

EXHIBITION CYBERARTS → OÖ Kulturquartier ...... 19

Curation and Texts by Christine Schöpf, Juergen Hagler and Nana Thurner Trailer & Graphics by Elmar Glaubauf and Victoria Wolfersberger Layout by Stefan Eibelwimmer, www.sege.at SCREENING PROGRAM

The seventeen programs of this year’s Ars Electronica Animation Festival are once again an international showcase of excellence in current digital . Visitors can experience these programs in several screening rooms at the POSTCITY, Art Thinking House. The Electronic Theatre is a special screening at Moviemento of the Prix Ars Electronica prize-winners. Another highlight is the screening program in Deep Space 8K.

In 1987, which was also the year of the first ELECTRONIC Prix Ars Electronica, the Electronic Theatre was established as an open-air show. The program shows THEATRE the prize-winning works selected by the jury and showcases current productions from an artistic, SAT 7.9. 20:00 – 22:00 substantial, cultural, and cutting-edge technological →→Moviemento Sommerkino (Cinema on the roof top) perspective.

SAT 7.9. 22:00 – 24:00 →→Moviemento Movie 1 Manic VR Acid Rain 01:41 | Kalina Bertin, Sandra 26:00 | Tomek Popakul (PL) Rodriguez, Nicolas S . Roy, Also available in the CyberArts exhibition Fred Casia (CA) City Rhythm in OÖ Kulturquartier. 05:40 | Siyeon Kim (KR) KIDS THU 5.9. – MON 9.9. 10:00 – 19.30 09:00 | Michael Frei (CH), Egg SAT 7.9. 10:00 – 21:30 Mario von Rickenbach (CH) / 12:07 | Martina Scarpelli (FR Playables / IT) The exhibition is open until 15.9. →→OÖ Kulturquartier Strings Huskies 05:12 | Ruini Shi (CN) 06:49 | Lilli Carré (US), David Sprecher (US) Solar Walk 20:53| Réka Bucsi (HU) Swatted 21:14 | Ismaël Joffroy Facing It Chandoutis (FR) 07:32| Sam Gainsborough (GB) A Double Life 02:43| Studio Job, Joris & Marieke (NL) Roy (CA) S . Roy Casia, Nicolas Rodriguez, Sandra Bertin, Fred Manic VR, Kalina

3 ANIMATION FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

THU 5.9. 10:00 – 23:30 FRI 6.9. 10:00 – 23:30 SAT 7.9. 10:00 – 19:30

SUN 8.9. 10:00 – 19:30 VR Showcase MON 9.9. 10:00 – 18:00

→→POSTCITY, Art Thinking House – Animation Festival Music & Visuals Expanded Animation Interface Mental States Late Night Narration Statement Gender ENTRANCE Digital Media, Hagenberg Campus Young ISCA (International Students Creative Award) Anifilm Třeboň Media Arts Festival 2019 Animations- institut of the Acadamy Baden- Württemberg Data Narration World Machines Studio Feature: Platige Image Experimental ARS ELECTRONICA ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2019 FESTIVAL ANIMATION ARS ELECTRONICA THU 5.9. – MON 9.9. FESTIVAL THINKING HOUSE – ANIMATION ART POSTCITY, PLAN FLOOR

4 VISUALS MUSIC & 03:40 Erebeta 02:52 Could BeBetter Homeshake –Nothing 03:14 Nakamura Fly –imai ft.79,Kaho 04:04 Kittone! Kaho Nakamura – 03:36 Lea Porcelain –TheLove 04:45 Platonic 04:40 Strange Jealousy different animation techniques. experimental forms of synthesis picture-sound in This program contains musicvideosandvarious processes of organic forms, ordancingmochis. dreamy landscape, desert aesthetically staged growth front of herletter of resignation, acarridethrough a wing of anairplane, anindecisive woman sitting in A dance performance by agroup of snailsonthe music by Cooper(IE) Max (GR) |Francois Vogel (FR) |Steve Smith(US) |Baku Hashimoto (JP) |Sivan Kidron (IL) |Jakob Schmidt(DE) |Páraic McGloughlin, |Georgios Cherouvim 02:48 Manifold 02:15 Matter andMotion 02:31 Mitski –APearl 04:45 Powder –New Tribe 02:33 FJAAK –Snow 08:37 1 Meter/Hour 04:24 window I canseefrom the music by Robot Koch Camp (US) music by ManamiKakudo (JP) |Mickael Le Goff (FR) Hattler |Max (HK/DE) |SaadMoosajee&Art |AC-bu (JP) |Raman Djafari(DE) |Nicolas Deveaux (FR) |Issei Yamagata (JP),

Powder - New Tribe, AC-bu (JP) NARRATION DATA Hidden Layer 05:12 Strings into asingleconsciousness. also asks what happenswhenhumansandAImutate analysis of group dynamicsare amongthetopics. It artistic researchmaritime data, into diabetes, andan ecological questions. Visualizations of airpollution, This program seeks to raise somesociologicaland 03:24 Spectrum 07:53 Universe A Mayfly intheVast 09:00 KIDS 03:10 CUSP 02:54 Playables Mario von Rickenbach (CH)/ |Jeroen Cluckers (BE) |ZhangXiaotao(CN) |MichaelFrei (CH), |AUJIK (JP) |FIELD(UK/DE) |RuiniShi(CN) 01:25 Emergence 04:07 Quantum Superpositions 05:37 Documentary World inaCell – 08:10 project World inaCell –VR 02:37 30° Everything (GB) Institute Media Lab andUSCBridge Institute Media Lab andUSCBridge Stephan Schakulat (DE) Nikoleit, Franziska Rast, |Universal |Markos Kay (GB) |USCWorldbuilding |USCWorldbuilding Foot, |Mathias Janna

5 KIDS | Michael Frei (CH), Mario von Rickenbach (CH) / Playables 6 NARRATION examples of thisprogram. people suddenly losetheirself-control –just afew deceased father, what will happenwhenagroup of randomly found film footage casting new lightona A little girldreaming of becoming anastronaut, in images, what wouldn’t bepossible withwords. dimension inthedigitalrealm andshows laconically Narration intheclassical senseacquires anew 07:40 One Small Step 05:59 Mamoon 06:57 Contents Les ÉléphantsSeront 02:22 Enough Alice Lepoutre (FR) Vincent Labis, AdrienLannoy, Charlotte Brun,Loïc Frimat, Zhang (US,CN) Bobby Pontillas, Shaofu |BenSteer (UK) |Lucas Roussel, (SE) |AnnaMantzaris |Andrew Chesworth, 41:04 Interface 13:38 Tapes My DeadDad'sPorno 06:59 Desire Line 06:40 Pulse (FR) Wambre, Kevin DeGaridel Juliette Gales, Thibaut PaulineFloucat, Javelot, |Justin Tomchuk (CA) |CharlieTyrell (CA) | RuiniShi(CN) |Sarah Forest, Cécile

One Small Step, Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas, Shaofu Zhang (US, CN) ANIMATION EXPANDED 01:36 Hello, Shadow ! projects. Elbphilharmonie andexperimental VR dance performance, amulti-media façadefor the an installation combining animated images witha interactive shadow installation, animated MRrooms, usual normandshows, amongother things, an new forms of animated visualworlds farfrom the This compilation assembles works that explore 02:02 (Un)Balance 05:22 Render Ghost 4.0 03:59 VRwandlung 06:02 Passage 06:11 Nike 04:34 Council The Great Indecision (GR) |Elyne Legarnisson (FR) Corp |NAXS |Mika Johnson(US) |Theoriz(FR) |TheoTriantafyllidis |Romain Tardy (FR) |JoonMoon(KR) .(TW) 02:11 Myrinx 05:08 Meandering River 01:47 KAPSARC: VisionWall 02:10 Dökk 07:10 the Aerobanquets RMX Art Claus Friede*Contemporary Wienemann (DE),Courtesy (DE), Coordination Susanne recording Gerigk Martin (ITA/US) |Till Nowak (DE) |onformative (DE) |FIELD(UK/DE) |fuse* (IT) |Mattia Casalegno

Dökk, fuse* (IT) EXPERIMENTAL 02:37 Influencers 05:00 Procedural Animation Seven Experimentsin 09:02 DIRTSCRAPER 02:32 + 10:45 Grands Canons 01:30 Arena 13:43 Flow frame-by-frame animated sequences. procedural structures to trailblazing examples of contemporary positions, from computer-generated of andscience art andbringstogether works with within current cinematography at theintersection This program presents new innovative trajectories sound by Antfood (NL) (IE) |Foam (DE), Studio |Karl Sims(US) |Peter Burr (US) Hattler |Max |(DE/HK) |AlainBiet(FR) |Páraic McGloughlin |AdriaanLokman (NL) 04:49 Beauty =Function 05:02 tx-reverse 02:07 phosphene Boy transcoded from 06:19 In Trance It by Antfood Salfity,Fizah, Martin sound Vojir, OhJiaHao, Ando& Alman, f°amStudio, Lukas Ben Fearnley, Bureu Klaus Wannerstedt, Alexa Sirbu, 3D Animators: Andreas Stefan Sagmeister (AT), Widrich (AT) |Jessica Walsh (US)& Reinhart, Virgil |Martin | Rodrigo Faustini (BR) |Reinhold Bidner(AT)

Boy transcoded from phosphine, Rodrigo Faustini (BR) STATEMENT staged images intherefugee crisis. censorship inSaudiArabia oraskquestions about take a stand onvarious politicalissues suchas society that buriesitsheadinthesand.Filmmakers Manhattan, agame of pretended emergencies, a of thecitythrough awar zone inthemiddleof A group of soldierssetoff onapeaceful exploration 06:49 Huskies 03:25 Itself A FilmCrew Censors 21:14 Swatted Sprecher (US) Chandoutis (FR) |Lilli Carré (US),David |Bentley Brown (US) |IsmaëlJoffroy 28:41 The Migrating Image 06:25 The Ostrich Politic 16:14 Operation JaneWalk (FR) Leonhard Müllner (AT) |StefanKruse (DK) |MohammadHouhou |Robin Klengel,

7 The Ostrich Politic, Mohamad Houhou (FR) 8 GENDER GENDER MACHINES WORLD 01:50 Same butDifferent 10.000 Moving Cities– 20:53 Solar Walk 07:41 Seoul CityMachine portrait of young peopleandtheirpersonaldata. and narrated by anAIchatbot. Ormaybe acity city symphony of anurbanspace of tomorrow, written Machineisa inhabitants of Japan.SeoulCity Northern traditional patterns of theAinupeople, thenative example. Another oneisamovie portraying various Urbanization andglobalization inthedigitalage isone 09:55 Reneepoptosis 12:00 III 09:41 Bloeistraat 11 towards gender norms. black comedy aboutacouple withdiffering attitudes as itsmainelements. Ananalysis of anorexia anda about gender andsexuality withvagina andpenis attraction andrejection. Anexperimental animation yet at thesametimeprovocative situation between A manandawoman meeteachother –anunpleasant This program portrays fairly diverse gender positions: (BE / NL) (BE /NL) |LiamYoung (GB/AU) | Marta Pajek (PL) |Marta |Nienke Deutz |Marc Lee (CH) |Réka Bucsi(HU) |Renee Zhan(US) 02:43 A DoubleLife 12:07 Egg 04:17 Flora 05:40 City Rhythm 02:13 Kaparamip Marieke (NL) / IT) | Studio Job, |Studio Joris & Scarpelli (FR |Martina |ChaerinIm(KR) |Siyeon Kim(KR) |BorisLabbé (FR)

Solar Walk, Réka Bucsi (HU) STATES STATES MENTAL 07:32 Facing It 26:00 Acid Rain societal constructions. therapy session with animals, andaboy trapped in journey. Astory aboutoutsidersinapub, agroup free of hereveryday life andembarks onanuncertain undercurrent of thisprogram. Ayoung woman breaks Mental confusion, states fears anddead-end form the 05:20 Per tutta lavita (IT /FR) |SamGainsborough (GB) |Roberto Catani |Tomek Popakul (PL) 14:00 Animal Behaviour 19:04 OOFFEE Snowden (CA) (GR) |David Fine, Alison |Alexandros Vounatsos

Egg, Martina Scarpelli (IT) ACID RAIN, Tomek Popakul (PL) LATENITE 09:32 tunnel… still lost Iguess, here’s a 13:02 Under theRibCage 04:08 MIAZMAT even after thorough reflection. format, andsomeof thefilmswill remain a mystery memes andInternet humorthematized inthepixel processed incolorful andbrutalcartoon aesthetic, trashy humorontheother. Mourningandloss are are full of philosophicalapproaches ononeside, and between deadseriousness andbitingsatire; they indecent. InLate Nite, thefilms walk thethinline The late nightprogram: irreverent, satirical andlittle by Diego Navarro (SP) (PL) |DaríoAlva (SP),sound |BrunoTondeur (FR) |Klaudiusz Wesołowski 13:35 cigarettes Je sorsacheter des 06:33 Animals 09:55 COYOTE 03:34 .MP4 Sohn (FR) | Osman Cerfon (FR) |OsmanCerfon |Tue Sanggaard (DK) |Lorenz Wunderle (CH) |François Grumelin-

still lost I guess, here’s a tunnel…*, Darío Alva (SP), sound by Diego Navarro (SP) IMAGE PLATIGE FEATURE: STUDIO museum installations. for live actionmovies andspecialprojects, suchas ,with short cinematics, 3Dlive theatre sets, VFX developed theirteam andexpanded theirportfolio mainly commercials andmusicvideos. Gradually, they a studio composed of adozen orsopeopleproducing some of thefinest filmdirectors. They startedoutas in theworld, thebest videogame publishersand in Warsaw, . They work for thebiggest brands animation andpost-productionVFX, company based Platige Image isanaward-winning filmproduction, 12:03 2009 The Kinematograph 08:54 2004 Fallen Art 06:40 2003 The Cathedral

|Tomasz Baginski(PL) |Tomasz Baginski(PL) |Tomasz Baginski(PL) 04:09 2018 MIAZMAT 10:39 2010 Paths of Hate (PL) |Klaudiusz Wesolowski |DamianNenow (PL)

9 MIAZMAT, Klaudiusz Wesołowski (PL) 10 ANIMATIONS YOUNG 16 years /u19 01:47 Shape of you 16 years /C3 01:38 Movie) 56 (Hungarian Lego 17 years /u19 02:44 I was not built for this 18 years /u19 07:12 Blue Moon THE COUNTDOWN STARTS… Curated by SirikitAmann(KulturKontakt ) are featured inYoung Animations. (CH), mb21(DE)andC3<19(HU).Thegreatest hits CREATE YOUR WORLD category (AT), bugnplay.ch for consideration to thePrix ArsElectronica’s u19— subtle, witty, utopian, criticalanddystopian works Gifted young filmmakers annually submittheir weird, 10 years /mb21 02:53 Zum Glückfaul gewesen 20 years /BnP 04:12 eines Animationsfilms Promise –Entstehung 18 years /C3 04:08 The Last Sunrise 18 years /u19 02:27 MASKS 17 years /C3 02:38 Logic BEHIND THESCENES Leonfelden (AT) Maurovich (AT) Eder, StephanieStigler, Selina |DenizKöseoglu (CH) |ÁgnesKirály (HU) |AnnaHaderer |ErikSmit(HU) BORG |Students Bad |DánielPapp (HU) |Felix Weidenholzer (AT) |KilianMayer, Jaqueline |MinouKropp (DE) 18 years /u19 07:57 LEGO: Feuer und Wasser 19 years /BnP 02:27 Pilatusdrachen mit PILU, dem Die GoldeneRundfahrt 11 years /mb21 02:53 Alien Schreck 03:30 chambreLa claire 22 years /mb21 04:58 Aye! Aye, 01:15 Misunderstood 18 years /u19 04:41 my Birthday The Nightmare before AND OTHER SCARY THINGS BEAUTIFUL NIGHTMARES 3. Klasse /mb21 03:18 Routes Fluchtwege/Escape Alexander Yamaguchi (DE) Yasmin-Melody Winge, Schneider, RudolfSeidl, Mistelbach (AT) | Maier, MajdaSehovic (DE) Koncz | am Eliashof (DE) |ThomasSpeckhofer (AT) |CelinaNiederhuber(AT) |Yanik Schwab (CH) Clara |HeleneRietig, BORG |Students |ArunaGallas, Julia |Máté Koncz,András Grundschule |Students 14 years /C3 16 years /u19 NOW NOW ANIMATION CZECH PRESENTS: ANIFILM Pavel Horáček, program director took inthat national contest. part established recently. All of thefilmspresented here Horizon (Český obzor) competition category was Anifilm is to cover all domestic creations, theCzech experimental works. Since oneof themaingoals of by students, films by experienced authors, and of contemporary Czech production offering shorts new Czech creations. diverse Itisavery portfolio In thisselectionof films, short you candiscover brand 08:00 Fleeting Autumn 09:52 Apart 01:34 Nothing the Mindof aBeliever of Three Messages from 09:10 Rudolf Bělohoubek) Neighbours (story of (CZ) |Vojtěch (CZ) Domlátil |DianaCamVan Nguyen Lee Oz(CZ) |Eliška Oz, Búřil(CZ) |Martin 05:44 Cut P. McGreevy’s VLF Radio –Stephen Advertising the Earth 01:52 Skinpompom: Episode8 Dingbongs HerTiny The XXXLPlumberJack 03:28 Gambler 05:46 Woman's Day Studený (CZ) ‑ |Zbyšek Semelka (CZ) |Vojtěch Kočí (CZ) |MichaelaRežová, Ivan |Evgeny Terpugov (CZ) outs

Advertising the Earth Radio – Stephen P . McGreevy’s VLF Cut-outs, Zbyšek Semelka (CZ) CAMPUS CAMPUS HAGENBERG MEDIA, DIGITAL 05:13 Namen trägt Ein Paket, daskeinen 08:31 Iruh 01:25 Pink Elephant 07:56 In Sensu Sciences UpperAustria inHagenberg. at theUniversityDigital MediaDepartment of Applied narrative to shorts experimental animations, from the a selectionof recent student works, ranging from conversation of two meerkats. Thisprogram features in aroundabout, andagorilla eavesdrops onthe the game rock-paper-scissors, awoman gets lost old-fashioned monitor plays aspecialversion of deliver ahuge eccentric package, afigure withan twoand setsoutsto mailcarriers theopensea, fishermanleavesA behind-the-times thesafe harbor (AT/DE) Lendenfeld, DorisRastinger Markus Hadinger, Christoph Rührlinger (AT) Alexander Gassner, Moritz Zankl (AT) Christoph Lendenfeld, Bianca Treml (AT) Wendelin Schwarzer, Lisa Kyra von Baeckmann, |Niko Frenkenberger, |Kerstin Blätterbinder, |Alexander Köpplmayr, 04:23 Obscure 08:04 Fish for Life 06:40 Café Dialog 05:30 Gorilla Thrilla 02:18 Insignis Pölz (AT) Victoria Wolfersberger (AT) Lisa Gierlinger, Lucas Mathä, Joanna Skorupinska (AT/DE) (AT) Jens Cherukad, SabrinaKainz Victoria Wolfersberger (AT) |ElmarGlaubauf, Philipp |Kerstin Blätterbinder, |MichaelAblinger, |DorisBlätterbinder, |ElmarGlaubauf,

Obscura, Elmar Glaubauf (AT) WÜRTTEMBERG WÜRTTEMBERG BADEN- ACADAMY OF THEFILM INSTITUT ANIMATIONS- student projects realized at Animationsinstitut. screening features someof thelatest andgreatest “Technical Directing,” and“Interactive Media.” This “Effects Artist,” “Animation/Effects Producing,” schools, offering theareas of study “Animation Artist,” Württemberg, isoneof theworld’s leadingfilm Animationsinstitut, of part Filmakademie Baden- 06:49 The Steppes of Khazar 06:34 Family Bonds 03:15 One Pair Coat 0:37 Einstein –HumanBeing Digital Actor: Albert 09:35 Blieschow 07:15 Song of aToad |Leszek Plichta (DE) |Sofiia Melnyk (DE) |MariaSchmidt(DE) |Yi Luo (DE) |Christoph Sarow (DE) |Kariem Saleh(DE) 10:30 Gravedad 00:58 Breakdown Einstein –VFX Digital Actor: Albert 05:00 Fussel 01:00 Tears inHeaven 00:56 Formula Einstein –World Digital Actor: Albert |Matisse Gonzalez (DE) |Leszek Plichta(DE) |Alex (DE) Berweck |BerndFaass (DE) |Leszek Plichta (DE)

11 Blieschow, Christoph Sarow (DE) 12 AWARD AWARD CREATIVE STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL students from Japanandaround theglobe. Association. Itisaninternational competition opento schools, sponsored by theKnowledge Capital for universities, graduate schoolsandvocational international andinformation arts mediacompetition ISCA (International Students Creative Award) isan 04:05 INTERFERENCE 06:13 Battle for ASunny Day 06:55 Anywhere 08:46 Adventure Tashikas Strange (JP) |SyuheiFujii (JP) |Lyota Takahashi (JP) |NaoSakamoto, Airi Sato |Kazuma Nakaichi (JP) 04:38 Floating Field 04:06 Sound 02:30 17 Tours 07:27 ONCE AGAIN 04:46 LOVE MONSTER Shigeaki Takashiro (JP) |Wu, Yi-Hsien (TW) |Hugo Caby (FR) |JasmijnCedee(BE) |WASABI MELON / |Reiya Hashimoto (JP)

Tashikas Strange Adventure, Nao Sakamoto, Airi Sato (JP)

2019 2019 ARTS FESTIVAL JAPAN MEDIA Animation, Excellence Award 01:30 (Trailer inEnglish) Penguin Highway Animation, New Face Award 05:31 The Little Ship Festival. out for recognition by the2019JapanMediaArts program consists of various excellent filmssingled This entertainment, animation andmanga. art, works inawidevariety of mediainfour categories: FestivalThe JapanMediaArts honorsoutstanding Art, ExcellenceArt, Award 03:00 (excerpt) discrete figures Animation, Excellence Award 1:25 English subtitle) (Trailer inJapanesewith Hisone&Masotan - DORAGON PILOT - Animation, Excellence Award 01:30 (Trailer inEnglish) OKKO’S Inn ELEVENPLAY (JP) Motoi Ishibashi/ MIKIKO / |ShinjiHiguchi (JP) |Anastasia Makhlina(RU) |Daito Manabe/ |Kitaro Kosaka (JP) |Hiroyasu Ishida(JP) Animation, Grand Prize 14:22 ChuteLa Animation, New Face Award 13:14 Invisible Animation, New Face Award 08:13 Am Iawolf? ExcellenceArt, Award 01:17 (excerpt) datum Animation, Excellence Award 01:30 English subtitle) (Trailer inJapanesewith The GirlWithoutHands (IR) (FR) |NorimichiHirakawa (JP) |BorisLabbé (FR) |Akihiko Yamashita (JP) |AmirHoushangMoein |Sébastien Laudenbach

La Chute, Boris Labbé (FR) VR SHOWCASE Film Board of Canada(CA) Paul and National Studios A production from Felix & GYMNASIA Google SpotlightStories (US) Age of Sail projects. can emerge themselves into several presented category of thisyear’s Prix Visitors ArsElectronica. that have beensubmitted to theComputer Animation This program features aspecialselectionof VRworks Maderthoner, Malte Stehr(DE) Stockhausen, Nikolai Carl Krause, Dominik Mindpalace Naturkunde (DE) cooperation withMuseumfür with Artificial Rome co-created and Filmtank, Interactive MediaFoundation Inside Tumucumaque .In

Inside Tumucumaque | Interactive Media Foundation → DEEP SPACE 8K new, unprecedented level. projected in8Kresolution andraised to acompletely meters of floorprojection. Here, image worlds are the world: 16x9meters of wall andanother 16x9 something that cannot befound anywhere elsein The ArsElectronica Center offers itsvisitors 04:01 WHERE DOWEGO 10:00 Promenade (excerpt) 02:07 phosphene Boy transcoded from 06:19 In Trance It 02:37 Influencers 09:00 Serial Parallels Music: Jörg Mikula (AT) sound by Antfood (NL) → Ars Electronica Center @ DEEPSPACE 8K–PART 2 ANIMATION FESTIVAL FRI 6.9. THU 5.9. @ DEEPSPACE 8K–PART 1 ANIMATION FESTIVAL MON 9.9. SAT 7.9. BEEPLE –MIKE WINKELMANN(US) MON 9.9. SUN 8.9. |SiegfriedA |Reinhold Bidner(AT) |Foam (DE), Studio Hattler |Max (HK/DE) |Quayola (GB) |Rodrigo Faustini (BR) .Fruhauf (AT) 12:00 –12:30 16:30 –17:00 10:30 –11:00 18:30 –19:00(+ Artist Talk) 15:30 –16:00 16:30 –17:00

04:49 Beauty =Function 05:02 tx-reverse 05:00 Procedural Animation Seven Experimentsin by Antfood Salfity,Fizah, Martin sound Vojir, OhJiaHao, Ando& Alman, f°amStudio, Lukas Ben Fearnley, Bureu Klaus Wannerstedt, Alexa Sirbu, 3D Animators: Andreas Stefan Sagmeister (AT), Widrich (AT) |Jessica Walsh (US)& Reinhart, Virgil |Martin |Karl Sims(US) 13 Serial Parallels, Max Hattler (HK/DE) SYMPOSIUM

EXPANDED ANIMATION – OUT OF THE BOX

In collaboration with the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus, the 7th Expanded Animation symposium carries on a process launched in 2013 — mapping the wide–ranging domain of animated worlds of imagery beyond the well-trodden paths. The symposium stays the course originally set at its , and presents theoretical positions and perspectives from the art world, the R&D field and the industrial sector. The mission: to function as a driving force advancing an interdisciplinary discourse. This year’s symposium takes the festival motto Out of the Box – the Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution and offers several panel discussions of current trends in the extended field of computer animation. Out of the Box in the sense of “thinking against all conventions” captures the basic essence of the Expanded Cinema movement, widely regarded as at the vanguard of media art.

FRI 6.9. – SAT 7.9. →→POSTCITY, Art Thinking Stage

FRI 6.9. SAT 7.9.

12:00 – 12:15 Welcome 12:00 – 14:15 Expanded Games Gerfried Stocker (AT), 12:00 – 12:45 Michael Frei (CH) Juergen Hagler (AT), 12:45 – 13:30 Miguel Sicart (DK) Alexander Wilhelm (AT) 13:30 – 14:15 Andreas Suika (DE)

12:15 – 13:45 Prix Forum I – Computer Animation 14:15 – 14:45 Break Kalina Bertin (CA), Golden Nica Ruini Shi (CN), Award of Distinction 14:45 – 17:00 Art & Industry Cindy Coutant (FR), Award of Distinction 14:45 – 15:30 Julius Steinhauser Birgitta Hosea (SW/UK), Moderation/Jury (AT/DE) 15:30 – 16:15 Nidia Dias (PT) 13:45 – 14:00 Break 16:15 – 17:00 Beeple – Mike Winkelmann (US) 14:00 – 14:30 Book Presentation Editors + Contributors

14:30 – 16:00 Out of the Box I 14:30 – 15:15 Jakob Schuh (DE) 15:15 – 16:00 Klaudiusz Wesolowski (PL) Expanded Animation is produced jointly by the Upper Austria 16:00 – 16:15 Break University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus and the Festival Ars Electronica, organized by Jeremiah Diephuis, Juergen Hagler, 16:15 – 17:45 Out of the Box II Michael Lankes, Alexander Wilhelm / Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus / Department Digital Media. 16:15 – 17:00 Mark Chavez (US) 17:00 – 17:45 Pak (TR) www.expandedanimation.com

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PRIX FORUM SPEAKERS

Kalina Bertin (CA) (Prix Ars Electronica 2019 / Computer Animation / Golden Nica) After completing her degree in filmmaking in Montreal, Kalina Bertin quickly realized that if she didn’t set out to understand the mental illness in her family it would destroy her . This process gave birth to her award-winning documentary film Manic (2017), which explores the legacy of Cindy Coutant (FR) bipolar disorder in her family . Manic was nominated for two (Prix Ars Electronica 2019 / Computer Animation / Award of Distinction) Canadian Screen Awards and won an Iris Award for best editing Cindy Coutant (FR) is an artist and researcher, in 2018 . Highlighting the power of her voice within the industry, currently resident at Le Fresnoy . Her work Kalina is a recipient of the Don Haig Pay it Forward Award at mainly questions the desire of the living to Hot Docs . She has been an invited speaker at the MIT Open connect with beings and things, coevolution Doc Lab, the Busan Int . Film Festival and the London Open between species or techno-species, and the City Doc Fest . Her new virtual reality experience, ManicVR, human need to manage and attach a meaning to the incoming premiered at the prestigious Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2018 and is information of the world . Her installations and augmented now being shown in festivals around the world . readings are close to science-fiction and unfold into writing processes that explore different issues such as love in the time of technological espionage, affective economics, grammar of Ruini Shi (CN) anxiety, or alternative Genesis creation narrative . (Prix Ars Electronica 2019 / Computer Animation / Award of Distinction) Ruini Shi (CN) is an artist and designer currently based in London . She explores Birgitta Hosea (SW/UK) virtual intimacy by combining film language (Juror 2019, Moderator) and technological aesthetics, creating Birgitta Hosea is a London-based artist, narratives that interrogate the compatibility who works in expanded animation creating between humanity and emerging technologies . She holds a artworks through installation, animated BA in Interaction and Moving Images from London College performance art and experimental drawing on of Communication and an MA in Animation from the Royal paper . She did a PhD in animation as a form College of Art in 2018 . Strings is the first in a series of stories of performance at Central Saint Martins . Her work is exhibited exploring digitally mediated sites and events as a locus to in galleries internationally and she has written a number develop relationship diversity . Her previous film, Desire Line, of publications on experimental animation, digital art and was her MA project and took a different perspective on human- animated installation . She is currently Reader in Moving Image AI relationships through a murder mystery . Recently, she has at the University for the Creative Arts where she is engaged on investigated queering blockchain as an emotional-interactional StoryFutures, an AHRC Creative Clusters research project into autonomous region . immersive technologies .

15 with based sci-art producer and developer Bianka EXPANDED Hofmann and Vienna based science communicator Bob Kastner, to form the art-sci collective Quantum Travelers . ANIMATION The collective aim is to use cultural metaphors to artistically describe ambitious and crucial scientific concepts with an SPEAKERS emphasis on describing scientific insights in Quantum theory that have a real and substantial effect on society and culture . The artwork resulting from this collaboration will premier in Beeple – Mike Winkelmann (US) the Deep Space during this year's Ars Electronica festival . Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, a graphic The art-sci interactive experience Quantum Logos explores designer from Charleston, SC, USA who does a how the basics of quantum-theory expressed with cultural variety of digital artwork including short films, archetypes could shed new insights into natural phenomena, Creative Commons VJ loops, everydays and questioning what is the nature of existence through scientific VR / AR work . After he began releasing a set observation . Besides the process behind the artwork, the talk of widely used Creative Commons VJ loops he has worked on will highlight preliminary experiments into the integration of concert visuals for Justin Bieber, One Direction, Katy Perry, Nicki art-sci with the teaching curriculum in Nanyang Technological Minaj, Eminem, Zedd, deadmau5 and many more . One of the University Singapore . The goal is to create a new awareness in originators of the current “everyday” movement in 3D graphics, the interconnection between the realm of art and science for he has been creating a picture everyday from start to finish and an innovative media art education . posting it online for over ten years without missing a single day .

PRESENTATION Nidia Dias (PT) Beeple: Everydays Nidia Dias is a Freelance Art Director and Beeple will be doing an everyday live for the audience Designer from Portugal currently based while showcasing work from the last 12 years of everydays . in Porto . Her work is focused mainly on Beforehand he will talking about lessons learned over this styleframes and look development for time . Attendees will learn how to start their own everydays, motion . With a background in graphic the reasoning behind doing a project like this, and what can be design, combined with motion expertise she creates gained from working everyday . visually compelling images that tell a story . Her colorful and experimental style is characteristic of a great sense of abstraction and visual attractiveness . With over 8 years of Mark Chavez (US) experience, she had the pleasure to work with some great Mark Chavez is an animation industry studios around the world, such as FutureDeluxe, Tendril, veteran (DreamWorks Animation, Rhythm Analog, Blur, Territory . Her clients include names such as & Hues Studios) . He worked on more Microsoft, HP, Adobe and Nike . than 15 award-winning feature films and innovative interactive titles . Most recently PRESENTATION he received a prestigious 2018 Lumiere Award by Advanced Storytelling through abstraction Imaging Society (AIS) Hollywood and 2017 Lumiere Award In the era of extreme visual stimulation and short attention by Stereopsia . Founding faculty of the ADM at the span, the line between real and digital it’s increasingly fading Nanyang Technological University Singapore 2005-2015, he away . In this context, some advertising solutions come from successfully integrated research by winning National Research telling a story through abstract forms to communicate a clear Foundation Grant for Singapore's Interactive Digital Media message . Based on some personal and commercial projects Research & Development Program . we will explore how can a story still be told when we simplify its form . How does the design process look like? And how PRESENTATION simple design decisions can have an impact on the story . A Quantum Logos visual without a story is just another experiment, but if you Quantum theory challenges our fundamental assumptions are trying to sell a product or an experience, stories help us to about reality . Whether it is believing that gravity warps time connect . and space, or that the world does not exist independently of our observations of it, quantum physics is a challenge now as it was for Einstein and scientists of his day . Since the surrealism, Michael Frei (CH) artists have been engaging with the theory of relativity and Michael Frei, born in (1987), is a quantum mechanics for creating mind-expanding digital filmmaker and artist who studied animation performances . Art is continuing in helping us in understanding at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences counterintuitive concepts of space, relativity, and dissonances and Arts and the Estonian Academy of Arts of the physical world . The and Singapore based in Tallinn . His animated films won numerous media artists duo Mark Chavez and Ina Conradi teamed up awards at international festivals . In 2014 he was invited

16 to participate in the Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo Jakob Schuh (DE) programme . His interactive projects “Plug & Play” (2015) and Jakob Schuh cofounded German animation “KIDS” (2019) became internet phenomena . He co-founded outfit Studio Soi in 2003 where he co-directed Playables, a production company in Zurich . some of the studio's bigger successes including “The Gruffalo”, nominated for both PRESENTATION a BAFTA and an Academy Award in 2010/11 . They taste differently Jakob left Studio Soi in 2014 and went on to co-direct Roald As someone with a background in animated filmmaking who Dahl's “Revolting Rhymes” Part1 & Part 2 . The project was is getting into designing video games, I'm often asked about recently awarded with an Annie, a BAFTA and garnered Jakob the difference between the two . There is a difference in form, his second Academy Award nomination in last year . Jakob is in the process of creating it, in how it is presented and in how a senior lecturer at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg the audience is involved . The best answer I came across so where he also studied . far was: “They taste differently ”. When talking to filmmakers about interactivity, they often make the following conclusion: PRESENTATION film is linear while games are non-linear . We might imagine serious/fun: Making „Revolting Rhymes“ and staying an “interactive films” as having a branching structure and the adult in Children’s Entertainment interaction itself as the act of making decisions . It can be By the example of the 2018 Academy-Award-nominated rather unsatisfying to just make a story decision - because „Revolting Rhymes“ Jakob talks about the ways in which he’s every decision for something turns out to be a decision found the confines of Children’s entertainment to be nurturing against its alternative . What I find much more satisfying, is innovation . From nine months of scriptwriting without changing the intangible, tactile sensation experienced when interacting . a single word of dialogue from the original text to the close How the materiality of a virtual world reveals itself only collaboration with Siberian Illustrator Nadya Mira, Jakob through the interactions of a player . If animation gives you will give an insight into the peculiar process of honoring a the illusion of life, interactivity gives you the illusion of choice . Children’s book classic by creating something entirely new . “Interactive Animation” combines the two .

Julius Steinhauser (AT/DE) PAK (TR) Julius Steinhauser (1988) is a 3D generalist, Pak is an omniscient designer/developer/ technical director and director at ZEITGUISED wizard, one of the leads in the earlier era und foam Studio . He completed his bachelor global motion design community as the studies in Information Design in 2012 at the founder of Undream, one of the pilgrims of FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences the experimental Web as the founder of the in Graz, where he also regularly teaches the workshop “Story hack-lab Machinu, and a founder of the government-funded and Visualization” to graduate students in the Communication, AI and Media Technologies company called Dogma . Pak Media, Sound and Interaction Design program . He has been has presented at major design events such as FITC, Mad in a member of ZEITGUISED since 2011, starting as an intern , Plug and Play, Resonate, Motion+, Internet and Mobile and continuously developing his skills from 3D generalist to World with works that represent a wide range of skills for technical director . In 2017, he made his directorial debut at clients such as Samsung, Gucci, Vodafone, Warner Bros, foam Studio with the film “AUTO NOM” . HBO, Avolution, Playboy, Blur Studios, Philips, Prologue Films,

PostPanic and others . Pak’s work has been showcased and PRESENTATION featured in leading design communities such as Vimeo, IDN, Bubbling Foam OFFF, Motionographer, GraphicDesign, Fubiz, Designcollector, foam Studio is the commercial layer of the Berlin based studio Shots, Stash, Computerarts and Ars Electronica – in addition Zeitguised . The conglomerate of unique and established to numerous magazines, festivals, publications, installations directors and artists develops key visual design, concepts, and interviews . Pak is currently exploring uncharted animation and stories shaping contemporary brand image space, experimenting with new forms of creation and culture beyond conventional tropes . Julius Steinhauser will communication, discovering, learning and teaching along the give a glimpse behind the scenes of foam Studio’s work . A bit of journey . show and tell mixed with some making of .

PRESENTATION Undefined Miguel Sicart (DK) Undefined Miguel Sicart is an associate professor at the Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen, where he researches and teaches about digital play and game design . He is the author of The Ethics of Computer Games, Beyond Choices: The Design of Ethical

17 Gameplay, and Play Matters (The MIT Press, 2009, 2013, Klaudiusz Wesołowski (PL) 2014) . His current research is focused on understanding why Director/Modelling Artist Born in 1983 . From people play with computers . the beginning of High School until college graduation deeply involved in classical PRESENTATION sculpture, drawing and . In 2011 he More than a feeling: an inquiry on game feel graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in What makes videogames unique art forms? This perennial Warsaw . In 2007 started developing skills in 3D graphics . In question is usually answered appealing to the nature of 2013 started working as a modeler and 3D scanning specialist videogames as multimedia works, or invoking their interactive at Platige Image studio . Participated in the creation of “The nature . In this talk I propose an alternative approach . The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” ,“The Division 2”, „Crossfire HD” and unique aesthetics of videogames should be found in the „Metro Exodus Artyom’s Nightmare” and many cinematic way they feel . Following research on phenomenology and trailers for industry leading game developers and publishers . Interaction Design, and echoing the work of scholars like www .imdb com/name/nm8458191. Brendan Keogh, in this talk I will argue that game feel is the

unique aesthetic characteristic of videogames, what makes PRESENTATION them a different art form, separate from other interactive Artistic theory and technical execution: behind the scenes digital media . In the talk I will provide a definition of game feel, of the short film Miazmat by Platige Image showing examples ranging from videogames to interactive art In this presentation, Klaudiusz Wesołowski will offer insight to digital services and developing a vocabulary and a design into the production of the animated short “Miazmat” . The approach for the aesthetics of game feel . starting point for creating this four-minute animation was the art of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, especially his Pure Form theory . The idea was born when the director, being a Andreas Suika (DE) fan of Witkacy, was admiring one of the artist’s masterpieces, As Unreal Engine Evangelist at Epic Games, “Kompozycja” . He decided to present the picture and the Andreas helps developers create successful process of creating it in animated form . “Miazmat” tells a story games and applications with Unreal Engine about putting the particular elements – shapes, colors and 4 . Having 19+ years of experience in different fantastic creatures – into one, coherent whole . The animation, roles, he wore many hats . At Ubisoft Blue full of colors and various forms, resembles the vision, or the Byte he worked as Level-, and Game Designer and Creative dream, of the artist . This project arose out of curiosity – the Director on titles like „The Settlers“ and „Anno“ . He co-founded curiosity of what might happen when the image comes to life the mobile game publisher Flaregames and later created the and the Pure Form aesthetics, born 100 hundred years ago, space exploration game „The Long Journey Home“ with a small are revitalised . The talk will address both artistic theories team at Daedalic . He was working as a game scout, managed that inspired the author to create the animation “Miazmat” in the Indie Arena Booth at gamescom in 2018 and lectures addition to technical aspects of the production . at various schools and universities . He loves tinkering on prototypes and streaming on Twitch .

PRESENTATION How to apply Game Engines in Creative and Classic Industries Tools used for game developement have always been at the forefront of technological innovations . Since the democratization of product resources for game creators ten years ago, game engines have evolved into real-time development platforms for a wide range of application possibilites beyond their original areas . They improve workflows and productivity for many creative and classic industries: Film and Animation, XR, Automotive, Architecture, EdTech, Art or Tourism . Real-time engines ar boosting the possiblilities for XR production (cinematic VR, mobile AR, 360 video), accelerating data visualization and integration in architecture and interactivate and immerse learning and training . The knowledge from game development, for example, creates advanced human-machine interfaces such as those used in virtual environments for autonomous driving tests . The expert will explain these and other current application areas and gives an outlook on the future of game technologies .

18 EXHIBITION

CYBERARTS IN OÖ KULTURQUARTIER

Experience digital arts! CyberArts presents the most outstanding entries from the Prix Ars Electronica, the international competition of computer art, this year for the 22nd time in OÖ Kulturquartier. The Computer Animation works shown there are following:

Manic VR KIDS CYBERARTS Kalina Bertin, Sandra Michael Frei, Mario von Rodriguez, Nicolas S . Roy, Rickenbach (CH) Playables THU 5.9. – MON 9.9. 10:00 – 19.30 Fred Casia (CA) Prix Ars Electronica 2019 / SAT 7.9. 10:00 – 21:30 Prix Ars Electronica 2019 / Honorary Mention Golden Nica The exhibition is open until 15.9. Solar Walk →→OÖ Kulturquartier Strings Reka Bucsi (HU) Ruini Shi (CN) Prix Ars Electronica 2019 / Prix Ars Electronica 2019 / Honorary Mention Award of Distinction

Undershoot: sensitive data, Cristiano Cindy Coutant (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2019 / Award of Distinction

Emergence Universal Everything (GB) Prix Ars Electronica 2019 / Honorary Mention The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA (JP): The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA stay ORCHESTRA (JP): The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA The SINE WAVE Photo by Kazuomi Furuya, Courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts for and Media [YCAM] Center Yamaguchi of Courtesy Furuya, Kazuomi by Photo

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Ars Electronica Animation Festival is a collaboration between the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus, the Ars Electronica Festival, OK im OÖ Kulturquartier and Moviemento.

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