Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2016

ARS ELECTRONICA animation festival 2016 expanded animation symposium CENTRAL Linz

The Ars Electronica Animation Festival is one of the mainstays of the Ars Electronica Festival. The accent is on diversity with respect to both content and style here. The programming delivers impressive testimony to how quickly (computer) animation is growing and how strongly it influences our everyday life. The lineup is a double-feature. CENTRAL, a former first-run cinema on Landstraße in downtown Linz, will be screening works of animation submitted for prize consideration to the 2016 Prix Ars Electronica, the prize for creativity and pioneering spirit in digital media arts, as well as several guest programs. And Expanded Animation, a series of workshops, seminars and speeches, will once again offer plenty of possibilities to go deeper into the art of animation.

Screening Programs: This year’s Screening programs are: Deconstructed Realities, Visuals & Sound, Statement, Abstract, Expanded & Experimental, Narration, Comedy & Black Humor, Late Nite, Young Animations, In Persona: Mihai Grecu, Anniversary Screening Filmakademie BadenWürttemberg, Student Animation Showcase: Digital Media, Hagenberg Campus, Tsinghua University, Japan Media Arts Festival, Campus Genius Award and The International Students Creative Award (ISCA).

Expanded Animation: The fourth annual Expanded Animation symposium is entitled The Alchemy of Animation in keeping with the 2016 Festival theme, RADICAL ATOMS and the alchemists of our time.

The focus is once again on the fringes of the computer animation field as well as on the reciprocal interaction of animation and technology. This year’s three featured topics are science, society and industry, which will be discussed from a variety of perspectives by three panels made up of animation filmmakers, curators, scientists, VFX artists and prizewinners in the Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation/Film/VFX category.

Curated by Christine Schöpf and Jürgen Hagler Sponsored by MAXON Computer GmbH Trailer & graphics by Johannes Poell

Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2016

Expanded Animation 2016

• Central Linz, Landstraße 36, 4020 Linz

Thu 8. Sep.

Fri 9. Sep.

Sat 10. Sep.

Sun 11. Sep.

Mon 12. Sep.

12:00 – 20:00

13:00 – 23:00

10:00 – 23:00

12:00 – 23:00

12:00 – 23:00

Animation Showcase: Digital Media, Hagenberg Campus

10:00 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:00 12:00 – 13:00

Narration

Comedy & Black Humor

Young Animations

13:00 – 14:00

Comedy & Black Humor

14:00 – 15:00

Young Animations

Young Animations

Campus Genius Award

Narration

ISCA

15:00 – 16:00

Visuals & Sound

Campus Genius Award

Japan Media Arts Festival

16:00 – 17:00

Tsinghua University

ISCA

Narration

17:00 – 18:00

Anniversary Screening Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Japan Media Arts Festival

Tsinghua University

18:00 – 19:00

Expanded Animation 2016

Expanded Animation 2016

Abstract

Deconstructed Realities

19:00 – 20:00

Deconstructed Realities

Expanded & Experimental

20:00 – 21:00

Statement

Deconstructed Realities

21:00 – 22:00

Late Nite

22:00 – 23:00

Expanded & Experimental

Electronic Theatre Showcase for the Winning Projects of Prix Ars Electronica 2016.

Anniversary Screening Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

The Alchemy of Animation September FRI 9th – SAT 10th, 2016 A two day’s symposium presented by the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Hagenberg Campus, MAXON Computer GmbH & Ars Electronica.

Fri 9. Sep. 13:00 – 13:15

Introduction and Welcome

13:15 – 14:45

Boris Labbé (FR) Rhizome (Golden Nica) Yuya Hanai (JP) Nosaj Thing / Cold Stares ft. Chance The Prix Forum I – Computer Rapper + The O’My’s Animation / Film / VFX (Award of Distinction) Johannes Schiehsl (AT) (Juror 2016) Mari-Liis Rebane (EE) (Moderator)

In Persona: Mihai Grecu

In Persona: Mihai Grecu

In Persona: Mihai Grecu

Abstract

14:45 – 15:15

Coffee Break

Statement

Expanded & Experimental

Abstract

Visuals & Sound

15:15 – 17:30

Art & Society

Late Nite

Visuals & Sound

Late Nite

Comedy & Black Humor

15:15 – 16:00

Under the Centipede Sun

Mihai Grecu (RO)

16:00 – 16:45

Animation and Artistic Diversity

Reinhold Bidner (AT)

16:45 – 17:30

No Frame

Jonas Hansen (DE)

20:00 – 21:45 Moviemento Sommerkino (Höhenrausch) 22:00 – 23:45 Movie 2 in Moviemento Cinema (OK Platz 1, basement)

13:00 – 16:15

Art & Science

13:00 – 14:00

Silent Signal: Exploring Visionary Science through Experimental Animation

Abigail Addison (UK)

14:00 – 14:45

Wizards of Data: Embodied Cognition and Animated Visualizations

Erwin Feyersinger (AT/DE)

14:45 – 15:30

The Other Face of Character Animation

Diana Arellano (ES/DE)

15:30 – 16:15

Visualisation and Simulation in Art & Science

Markos Kay (UK)

16:15 – 16:40

Coffee Break

16:40 – 18:30

Art & Industry

16:40 – 17:35

Planting Seeds of Surreality

Manuel Casasola Merkle & Moritz Schwind (DE) (Aixsponza)

17:35 – 18:30

Animals vs Machines – When Creativity Goes Uncontrollable

Matthias Winckelmann (ManvsMachine) (DE)

Jürgen Hagler (AT), Gerfried Stocker (AT)

Statement

Sat 10. Sep.

Sat 10. Sep.

Organized by: Jeremiah Diephuis, Juergen Hagler, Michael Lankes, Patrick Proier, Christoph Schaufler, Alexander Wilhelm

http://www.expandedanimation.com/

Prix Forum Speakers Boris Labbé (FR) After obtaining a DNAP (National Diploma in Visual Arts) at l’Ecole supérieure d’art et de céramique de Tarbes, Boris Labbé continued his studies at the EMCA of Angoulême (Ecole des métiers du cinema d’animation). At the EMCA, he produced Kyrielle, his final film project, which was awarded the Special Jury’s prize for Graduation Films at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2012. Simultaneously, he developed an artistic work that is both visual and plastic. He spent a year at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. RHIZOME is his first professional film. www.borislabbe.com/ Yuya Hanai (JP) B. 1986. Software engineering.

Rhizomatiks co., ltd. Hanai studied at School of Integrated Design Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University. After his engineer career in R&D department at Sony Corporation, he started working at Rhizomatiks. By using computer vision skills, Hanai took part in various projects such as “Perfume at SXSW”, Nosaj Thing’s mucis video “Cold Stares ft.

Chance The Rapper + The O’My’s” and NHK (a statesponsored channel) “NEXT WORLD LIVE”. He won “Craft Award” in 2015 55th ACC CM FESTIVAL as an engineer.

Johannes Schiehsl (AT) (Juror 2016) Johannes Schiehsl started studying traditional animation in Czech Republic, and continued his studies at the prestigious Filmakademie BadenWuerttemberg. There he created a couple of award winning short films that also aired on several television channels. His autobiographically inspired graduation short film „366 Days“ was selected by more than 70 international film festivals and received numerous awards. Among others the film was selected to the official competitions in Annecy and Stuttgart and became the first animated film ever to be nominated for an Austrian Movie Award.

Johannes Schiehsl founded the animation company „Neuer Österreichischer Trickfilm“ together with Conrad Tambour and Benjamin Swiczinsky in 2011.

Mari-Liis Rebane (EE) (Moderator) Mari-Liis Rebane, (Tallinn, Estonia), is an artist and director working in the fields of audiovisual production and moving image. Since 2011 Mari-Liis is working for International Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams, the oldest and biggest animation festivals in the Baltics, currently she is in charge as the Festival Director. She is also occasionally involved as an animation expert in Estonian Film Fund financing committee and collaborates as a programme curator for international festivals and as an independent journalist for culture magazines. Promoting visual culture and expanding the definition of animation has become her main mission. Mari-Liis Rebane has graduated from the animation department at Estonian Academy of Arts and currently focusing on interactive and emerging technologies in her MA studies in New Media.

Expanded Animation Speakers Abigail Addison (UK) Abigail Addison co-directs Animate Projects, a UK-based arts agency that champions creative animation practice, and produces ambitious interdisciplinary projects, such as Silent Signal, with a range of partners. As a freelance producer she works with cultural organizations and individual artists on developing, producing and exhibiting experimental moving image projects. Abigail is a Trustee of film and photography charity Four Corners, and an advisor to Underwire Festival.

Presentation Silent Signal: Exploring Visionary Science through Experimental Animation Producer Abigail Addison will present on Silent Signal, a project that connects six artists working with animation and six biomedical scientists.

Together the collaborators have created experimental animated artworks that elicit new ways of thinking about the human body. These works explore the signals that enable our bodies to operate and to adapt to fight disease, and raise questions around how our immune system functions, the use of our genetic code, and how disease is spread. The presentation will explore how each project provides a creative response to cutting-edge research in order to bring to life the science. It will examine the different

ways the artists and scientists have worked together to find a common language, and how each artist has engaged with their collaborating scientists’ data, tools and processes. www.silentsignal.org Diana Arellano (ES/DE) Diana Arellano is a researcher and software developer at the Research and Development department at the Institute of Animation, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

Her research topics are mainly focused on affective facial animation and its creative use in fields other than entertainment. In addition to this, she supports the Technical Director students on their research projects. Diana Arellano has also collaborated in the organization and as scientific committee member of international conferences (e.g. FMX, AMDO, ICAART, Interacción, SIGGRAPH as a student volunteer). She is currently Co-Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee (IRC).

Presentation The Other Face of Character Animation Animated or virtual characters have belonged for a long time to the film or games industry. But what happens when one wants to use animated characters in a different field than entertainment? Specifically, where and how can we use facial animation in a way that produces a bigger impact and supports other disciplines? These questions will be answered by presenting a number of interdisciplinary projects realized at the Institute of Animation, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg like The Muses of Poetry and SARA—Stylized Animation for Research in Autism, which have been mostly focused on real time facial animation.

Reinhold Bidner (AT) Reinhold studied Animation and Electronic Media in Salzburg (AT), Dundee (Scotland/UK) and in Berlin (DE). In 2001 he joined the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz (Timebased Media, 2001-2006) and since 2006 he has been experimenting in the fields of Animation and Media Art, either as an individual or as a member of two collectives: goldextra and 1n0ut. Since 1999 he has received various awards and residencies for his artistic work. Reinhold lives and works in Vienna and Salzburg, and teaches at University of Art & Design Linz in the fields of Motion Graphics, Interactive Video and Animation. In 2012, he also became a member of Salzburg’s provincial advisory board of fine arts.

Presentation Animation and Artistic Diversity Reinhold´s artistic work is always at least crosslinked to animation in diverse fields, settled somewhere between Media Art, (robotic) performances, games, and Augmented Reality. These projects aim to combine technology with social or political topics. Animation, in all its variety, offers incredible potential for addressing social topics and visualizing their complex interrelations, particularly with the new tools and devices now available and artistic disciplines merging with each other. In reference to this, Reinhold will talk about some of his own diverse experiments and also about some other Austrian animation examples that he would consider “Expanded” Animation. servus.at/subcute/

Manuel Casasola Merkle (DE) & Moritz Schwind (DE) Manuel Casasola Merkle is a Graphic Designer and Technical Director with over 15 years of experience.

He likes to dive deep into the ins & outs of contemporary CG research, burying his desk under piles of SIGGRAPH papers, and thus racking up quite diverse software and programming skills. After graduating from the University of Applied Sciences in Nürnberg in 2000, he co-founded Aixsponza, an interdisciplinary design company based in Munich Germany, in 2006.

Moritz Schwind: Born. Year 1 - don’t remember much. Year 2 - still no memories. Year 3 - still nothing. Kindergarten. Lego is awesome! Elementary school.

Elementary school. Thought I knew EVERYTHING. Elementary school. Gymnasium. Wing Commander is the shit. Programming is awesome. POV-Ray is great. Teachers are crappy. Girls. Beer. Teachers still crappy. Cocktails. A-Levels. Civic service.

Parachuting. University. Computer science is hard.

Working instead. Another University. Programming is awesome again. CGI is awesome again too.

Interning at Sehsucht. Building a 3D scanner as thesis. Working. University again. Programming is easy - concept is hard. Master thesis. Working.

Working at another place. Quitting & getting some sleep. Freelancing. Working at Aixsponza. Today.

Presentation Planting Seeds of Surreality Just as the flat bed scanner marked a seismic shift in graphic design in the early nineties of the last century, 3D scanning techniques have started to

increasingly influence computer animation. The broad access to these methods, caused by ever more powerful computers, the rapid enhancements to photogrammetry software and thus massively reduced costs, opens new possibilities to a wide spectrum of artists. The “Seed” movie is a visual experiment that makes heavy use of scanned data to create a surreal experience. Samples from the ordinary world that surrounds us are put into a new and artificial context. The contrasting relationship between formerly unrelated objects encourages the spectator to create an individual interpretation. In this talk we’ll shed light on the possibilities these manipulations of our perceived reality offer. www.aixsponza.com/

Erwin Feyersinger (AT/DE) Dr. Erwin Feyersinger is a research associate in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Tübingen. His research is mainly concerned with film and animation, and relies on narratological, semiotic, and cognitive frameworks. He is member of the editorial board of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. His current research project focuses on theories of visual abstraction and dynamic visualizations.

He is initiator and co-coordinator of the interest group AG Animation as part of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM). Together with Maike Sarah Reinerth, he recently guest edited an issue of Montage AV on animation.

Presentation Wizards of Data: Embodied Cognition and Animated Visualizations Dynamic, i.e. animated, visualizations are a highly

pervasive form of moving images, increasingly used in various academic disciplines, in journalism, and in education. While many visualizations foster meaning making of complex phenomena, others achieve quite the opposite by being unintentionally misleading or even intentionally deceptive. I will argue that embodied image schemata strongly influence both the understanding and misunderstanding of visualizations.

Mihai Grecu (RO) Mihai Grecu was born in 1981. Ever since studying art and cinema in France, at the Fresnoy Studio of Contemporary Arts, he has been developing a complex personal visual language. By mixing symbolic images with highly metaphorical situations and surreal atmospheres, his works challenge the viewer’s perception as well as contemporary imagery, with recurring themes such as environment, war, water and metamorphosis. His films-poems have been shown in numerous film and new media festivals worldwide (Rotterdam, Festival of New Cinema in Montreal, Clermont Ferrand, Videobrasil) and exhibitions (“Dans la nuit, des images” at the Grand Palais in Paris, Mois de la Photographie in Paris, Hengesbach Gallery in Berlin, etc).

Presentation Under the Centipede Sun Mihai Grecu makes what would be defined as nonnarrative short films mixing 3D simulation techniques with real footage. Yet definitions cannot exist in the universe created by those films. Grecu blends images of global challenges with images of existential uncertainties into space where time passes as for a fly

paralyzed in a spider’s web. This view is trying to hold on to reality slipping away differently in every facet.

What it catches is hyper real, up to every scale of a fish swimming in the air (Glucose), or every drop of a rain fallen upside down (Coagulate). The hyper real breaks the rational observation delicately enough not to proclaim what is seen a fantasy, but to promote it to a parallel present, an unknown twin of the reality we used to believe was the only one. With just one slight difference, such as North Korea possible to be flooded like Atlantis (The Reflection of Power), or raspberry jam possible to pollute a big river (Exland).

Absurdity makes these landscapes even more believable – because lies are logical, while the nature takes chances. The excessive images of liquids (oil, water, syrup), fire and smoke in the films play with the anxious feeling that somehow nature’s sublime forces were distorted and hacked into an unknown reality.

Those matters also represent the infinite number of nature’s varieties, as they are always similar and never the same. People say they can look at water or fire forever, which, after all, corresponds with the pace of time in Grecu’s films. www.mihaigrecu.org/ Jonas Hansen (DE) Jonas Hansen is a designer and media artist who works at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) at the Laboratory for Dimensional Research (Lab.D) in the area of experimental 3D and games. He is co founder of the Cologne based Paidia Institute and the Dutch media art collective z25.org. In his artistic work Jonas Hansen develops interactive systems and experimental games that often explore the boundaries between the real and the virtual world. He has taken part in numerous international

exhibitions and festivals, including Museum of Modern Art (Rovereto), ComeOutAndPlay festival (Amsterdam), Artefact festival (Leeuven), V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), Ars Electronica (Linz), Transmediale (Berlin), Translife International Triennial of New Media Art China (Beijing) and Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ZKM (Karlsruhe).

Presentation No Frame In this talk I will focus on strategies that expand and question the traditional use of the screen and actively incorporate the human body and the physical space. Not only since the renaissance of virtual reality has the rigid format of the screen as a frame been challenged, but also through a long history of artistic inquiries that explored the boundaries between the real and the mediated space. The question we have to ask ourselves is to what extent these expanded spaces create a deeper understanding of reality or completely cut us off via immersive simulations of existence. Examples of my own work and also the work of the students of the newly formed department exMedia at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne will be shown to open discussions about the hybrid forms in art, animation and games. pixelsix.net

Markos R. Kay (UK) Markos R. Kay (MRK) is a digital artist, director and lecturer based in London. He is best known for his artificial life video art experiment “aDiatomea”, exhibited at Haeckel’s Phyletic Museum. His work can be described as an ongoing abstraction and digitisation of the

microscopic world through computer simulations and generative techniques. These experiments explore the scientific methods and processes that reveal information about the complexity and emergence of the invisible.

Presentation Visualisation and Simulation in Art & Science In the works presented, computer simulations are used as an artistic tool to visualise scientific observations. Observation can be defined as the abstraction of information from a source. In visual perception, light information is transformed and processed through the brain to create a representation of phenomena. In scientific observation, instruments intervene to translate information from aspects of reality that cannot be directly observed into perceptible forms. Thus, the scientific narrative mediates information, transforming it into emergent orders of complexity to produce scientific knowledge.

This knowledge is further abstracted when it is represented in visual form. Scientific visualisations communicate these observations, guiding and forming the way this knowledge is perceived and understood. This work takes the form of virtual experiments consisting of parametric systems that are set into motion to generate emergent structures and interactions. As visualised digital recordings, they illustrate the informational paradigm of science as expressed through the tools and iconography of scientific observation. www.mrkism.com/

Matthias Winckelmann (DE) Matthias Winckelmann is a designer and director based in London, UK. He works as the Head of 3D at the internationally renowned design and motion studio ManvsMachine.

After studying Visual Communications in Offenbach, Germany, and Media Art in Shanghai, China, he received his diploma in Film, Design and Media Sociology in 2011. Starting his professional career as a freelance designer and director in 2009, he quickly established himself by creating top projects for prestigious clients worldwide, such as Nike, Apple, Honda, BMW, Audi, Toshiba and many more.

Presentation Animals vs Machines – When Creativity Goes Uncontrollable Contemporary design studios work predominantly within their conceptual thinking. The project brief guides designers through the process of research and development. “VERSUS” is a project without a brief, an opportunity for an unpredictable result.

Sometimes creativity is uncontrollable and a hint to our ever present primeval nature. Matthias Winckelmann, Head of 3D at London-based studio ManvsMachine, will be talking about the short animation “VERSUS”, how it came to existence with the help of MAXON and how it developed into a viral campaign that keeps on recreating itself. mvsm.com/

Deconstructed Realities Deconstruction in a philosophical sense means breaking down literary or philosophical texts into their component parts and then assembling them anew. And that’s exactly what the filmmakers on this lineup do with architecture, everyday events or urban life: a Los Angeles studded with colorful neon signs in Arabic; a stereoscopic leap into the entrails of Paris; the surrealistic reversal of everyday acts; and microscopic investigations leading into the inner domains of the outer world.

Tehran-Geles 18:00 | Arash Nassiri (Le Fresnoy) (IR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention Ghost Cell 06:50 | Antoine Delacharlery (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention Simulacra 03:56 | Theo Tagholm (UK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention

Ex Terrat 05:45 | Reinhold Bidner (AT) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 INPUT/OUTPUT 04:08 | Terri Timely (US) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Visuals & Sound This program features music videos and works of sound art that demonstrate diverse ways of blending imagery and music. The spectrum includes classical music videos, software developments and dancing robots. What they all have in common is the successful interplay of acoustic and visual elements. Come and see/hear for yourself!

Never Say Never 05:58 | Saman Kesh (Skunk) (IR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention Sonámbulo 04:20 | Theodore Ushev (CA) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Back & Forth 03:00 | Thomas Porthé (FR), 20syl (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Dissonance 15:00 | Till Nowak (frameboX) (DE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Hide 05:16 | Christian Stangl, Strange Freedom (AT) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Microscopic Leaps 01:58 | Markos Kay (UK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

HNN “Je pars” 04:43 | Hugo Arcier (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Seed 03:29 | Manuel Casasola Merkle (Aixsponza) (DE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Frank Riggio - TTTT 03:56 | Mert Kizilay (TR/US), Frank Riggio (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Semi-Permanent 2015 03:13 | Raoul Marks (AU) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Memex - Duologue 04:21 | Marshmallow Laser Feast, Studio Analog (UK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

A Place I´ve Never Been 04:40 | Adrian Flury (CH), Jeroen Visser (NL) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Art Department – Walls 03:25 | Hugo Moreno, Grandson & Son, Jonny White (THE FIELD) (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 The Last Goodbye 06:16 | Brutus Collective (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Braids - Bunny Rose 03:50 | Stephen McNally (IE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Soundloom 04:12 | Craig Ritchie Allan (numbercult) (UK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Jazz Orgie 01:16 | Irina Rubina (RU) (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 SISSI RADA - SUNDAY 02:52 | schnellebuntebilder, SISSI RADA (DE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Valentino Khan – Deep Down Low 03:05 | Ian Pons Jewell (UK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Statement

Abstract

The filmmakers on this lineup take a stance on the big issues of our times—for instance, the current sociopolitical situation in Europe and the refugee problem, global warming, and using resources sustainably. Some of these takes might come across as comical at first, but they’ll soon wipe that smirk off your face and replace it with a pensive look.

Abstraction—that is, the reduction of what’s cinematically depicted to its essence or to certain aspects of it—can make use of a wide array of techniques. They range from abstract sculpture and painting onto film with a laser to mapping and generative art. The result is impressive visual complexity.

Peripheria 12:02 | David Coquard Dassault (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Award of Distinction

Rhizome 11:26 | Boris Labbé (Sacrebleu Productions) (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Golden Nica

The Race 14:36 | Michael Le Meur (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

7001 05:31 | Nataša Teofilović (RS) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention

Estate 07:26 | Ronny Trocker (IT) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 PLANET ∑ 11:50 | Momoko Seto (Les Films de l´Arlequin) (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 GREEN 03:20 | bif (UK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Carface 04:45 | Claude Cloutier (National Film Board of Canada) (CA) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

geist.xyz 02:30 | ZEITGUISED (DE), Superimposed Void (DE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention moon blink 10:13 | Rainer Kohlberger (AT) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 L’Œil du Cyclone 05:03 | Masanobu Hiraoka (Je Regarde) (JP) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

FLUX 01:47 | Karel Dhondt (BE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Seven Rooms 06:25 | Martin Fütterer (DE) (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 vitreous 03:24 | Robert Seidel (DE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Quimtai 06:05 | Camilo Colmenares (CO) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 On China Sea 04:05 | Thomas Porett (Digital Imagery Ltd.) (US) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Expanded & Experimental Experimental modes of animation are on display here. Real and virtual dance performance is seamlessly combined with quadcopter-mounted cameras that expand the space; macro shots shift the point of view inwards; light painting is technologically expanded; fluid bodies are animated via motion capture; and hybrids of game and reality trigger an impressive shift of perspective.

Nosaj Thing / Cold Stares ft.

Chance The Rapper + The O’My’s 02:55 | ELEVENPLAY (JP), Daito Manabe (JP), MIKIKO (JP), Rhizomatiks Research (JP), TAKCOM (JP) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Award of Distinction Coordinated Movement 03:11 | Mike Pelletier (CA) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention The Five Minute Museum 06:35 | Paul Bush (Ancient Mariner/ Schattenkabinett) (UK, CH) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 God View 07:08 | Billy Lumby (UK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Bio-Inspire FullDome AV Performance 05:00 | Bahadir Dağdelen, Yusuf Emre Kucur (VOID) (TR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention Process: Breath 05:15 | Line Klungseth Johansen (NO) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 ∆Purgatorio 06:56 | Scott Gelber (US), Zac Traeger (US) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

The Eidolon Splits 03:42 | DEPART (AT) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 lull 03:02 | AV&C (US) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Project Nimbus 04:12 | Dave Lynch, Mike Nix (UK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Virtual Depictions : San Francisco 04:41 | Refik Anadol (TR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Floating Points - Silhouettes 03:51 | Hamill Industries, Junior Martínez (SP) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Narration The plots on this classic narrative program include the tragic life story of a young girl in Saigon and tales of friendship and remembrance. A series of touching, poetic encounters.

Borrowed Time 06:44 | Andrew Coats, Lou Hamou-Lhadj (Quorum Films, LLC) (US) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Deer Flower 07:34 | Kim Kangmin (STUDIO ZAZAC) (KR, USA) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 MOOM 13:59 | Robert Kondo (US), Daisuke Tsutsumi (JP) (Tonko House, CRAFTAR, Marza Animation Planet) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention Cold Coffee 14:53 | Stephanie Lansaque and Francois Leroy (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Batz 07:00 | Maléo Maxime, Aurélien Prédal (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Jukai 09:20 | Gabrielle Lissot (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Comedy & Black Humor Lots of dark humor is packed into this program: A 12-year-old boy dissects a frog in biology class and speculates about what he would do if he were God; the bedtime story of Father Opossum is an inane alphabet of death; and the Sisyphus-like saga of two mountain climbers in the Alps is a stone-cold stunner.

Accidents, Blunders and Calamities 05:17 | James Cunningham (Media Design School) (NZ) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 / Honorary Mention If I Was God 08:28 | Cordell Barker (CA) (National Film Board of Canada) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Voltaire 12:00 | Jan Snoekx (BE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Ascension 07:09 | Thomas Bourdis (FR), Martin de Coudenhove (FR), Caroline Domergue (FR), Colin Laubry (FR), Florian Vecchione (FR), Seth Steward (US) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Late Nite When darkness falls, it’s time for tales of monsters, zombies, cat-eating wolves, trash as 1980s reminiscence, and sex. This might not be right for our underage friends, but grown-ups are sure to get a kick out of it!

Symphony of two minds 06:40 | Valere Amirault (FR) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Untamed 07:38 | Untamed BAC12 (DK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Launch Cinematic 04:24 | István Zorkóczy (Digic Pictures Ltd) (HU) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

SOME THING 06:50 | Elena Walf (RU) (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Jungle of Desire 06:50 | Ping Wong (HK) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Isand / The Master 17:39 | Riho Unt (OÜ Nukufilm) (EE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Assassin‘s Creed Syndicate Cinematic Trailer 04:38 | István Zorkóczy (Digic Pictures Ltd) (HU) Prix Ars Electronica 2016 Kung Fury 30:20 | David Sandberg (SE) Prix Ars Electronica 2016

Young Animations Witty, off-beat, subtle, tragic and serious animated work produced by young filmmakers will be screened during the Festival Ars Electronica.

Every year, gifted young filmmakers submit their movies to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD (Austria), bugnplay (Switzerland), MB21 (Germany) and C3<19 (Hungary). The greatest hits will be featured in Young Animations.

Because we are human Arachnomorphose 02:10 / Chiara Tockner 19 Jahre / u19 Ins Licht 01:46 / Zoe Röllink 20 Jahre / bugnplay Change 00:46 / Tobias Macke (FILMABTEAM), Johannes Puschner 17 Jahre / u19 Guter Tag, schlechter Tag 02:57 / Noah Glarner 13 Jahre / bugnplay Wenn Seiten leben 02:00 / Manuela Polndorfer, Katharina Wünsche 19 bzw. 17 Jahre / u19 L’Américain et l’Indien 03:00 / Julien Beaud 17 Jahre / bugnplay

Kim´s Life 04:21 / Safia El Maataoui, Lena Krautinger 18 bzw. 17 Jahre / u19 Flucht 07:56 / Dimitri Teufl 13 Jahre / u19 Sea 00:28 / Nándor Pataki 13 Jahre / c3

Animals and other creatures

Create your world

Tiere allein im Wald 05:00 / Lea Kirstein, Oskar Gerspach 20 Jahre / mb21

No money, but time 02:47 / Balz Schlegel 20 Jahre / bugnplay

Kraken 03:34 / Csombor Márton 14 Jahre / c3

Ändere dich jetzt 03:30 / Michael Merzinger 19 Jahre / u19

Sum Sum 00:39 / Andrin Casutt 13 Jahre / bugnplay

Káosz 03:58 / Szczuka Bendegúz 13 Jahre / c3

slime 00:22 / Nádor Pataki 13 Jahre / c3

Pizza Galactica 03:52 / SchülerInnen des Goethe-Gymnasiums Bensheim 14 Jahre / mb21

Unless 02:10 / Tim Winkelmann 16 Jahre / bugnplay Peakture 03:50 / Studierende der Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart 23 Jahre / mb21

Erdbeermarmelade 01:26 / Vorschulgruppe der Herderschule Darmstadt 6 Jahre / mb21 the best is yet to come (extract) 02:21 / Alina Groer, Daniela Kubesch, Leo Mühlfeld 18 Jahre / u19

Student Animation Showcase: Digital Media, Hagenberg Campus This screening features current student works from the Department of Digital Media at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Campus Hagenberg: from classical animation to hybrid forms as well as from narrative to experimental shorts. www.fh-ooe.at

In Persona: Mihai Grecu Mihai Grecu’s visual and poetic trips mix several techniques and styles and may be seen as propositions for a new, dream-oriented technology. After studying art and design in Romania and France, he has been pursuing his artistic research at the Fresnoy Studio of Contemporary Arts. Recurring topics such as distress, cloning, hallucination, city life and war articulate the whole of his exploration of mysterious and subconscious beginnings. His work has been shown at numerous film festivals (Locarno, Rotterdam, Festival of New Cinema in Montreal) and exhibitions.

Unlith (2007) 07:58 / Mihai Grecu, Le Fresnoy Coagulate (2008) 05:56 / Mihai Grecu, Le Fresnoy Centipede Sun (2010) 10:00 / Mihai Grecu We‘ll become oil (2012) 08:00 / Mihai Grecu

Tsinghua University This program features selected works of animation art by students at the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University in Beijing (CN).

Tsinghua is considered one of China’s best universities for engineering and the natural sciences.

It’s a member of the C9 League, an association of the country’s nine most prestigious institutions of higher learning.

Glucose (2012) 07:00 / Mihai Grecu, Thibault Gleize

Dream of a Whale 05.36 / HAO MINGZHU

Exland (2013) 07:29 / Mihai Grecu, Thibault Gleize

Tears of the Ocean 04:04 / LING HAORAN, ZHAO XIAOYUN

Reflection of Power (2015) 09:10 / Mihai Grecu, bathysphere production

A Miner’s Story 07:04 / JU LI Day, the Chef 02:34 / XIONG SHUYU Colored Rubik‘s Cube and Ping-Pong 04:13 / LEI LEI Circle 02:57 / HUANG LEI,CHEN QIAN

Sailing 06:14 / WANG SIYUE Ruins 07:46 / YE DONG, WU YUFEI The wheels of time 06:04 / SHI QINGYUAN, LIU QI The Last 15 Minutes 03:51 / XIONG SHUYU Miss Apple 05:38 / WU JINGTONG The Shotgun 04:23 / WU BOAN

Anniversary Screening Filmakademie BadenWürttemberg The prestigious Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2016. The Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction is integral to the Filmakademie’s international acclaim: founded in 2002, the Institute offers hands-on training in animation and interactive media. Its award-winning student projects cover the whole range of animation and explore transmedia aspects—from drawn animation to 3D projects and fully-fledged VFX productions. This screening features a hand-picked selection of outstanding student projects from the last 25 years.

AH POOK IS HERE (1994) 06:07 / Philip Hunt BUNNIES (2003) 00:33 / Jakob Schuh, Saschka Unseld LEBENSADER (2009) 05:48 / Angela Steffen

MOBILE (2010) 06:25 / Verena Fels LOOM (2010) 05:20 / Jan Bitzer, Ilja Brunck, Csaba Letay 366 TAGE (2011) 12:12 /Johannes Schiehsl ROLLIN’ SAFARI (2014) 02:54 / Kyra Buschor, Constantin Päplow, Anna Habermehl WRAPPED (2014) 04:07 / Roman Kälin, Falko Paeper, Florian Wittmann BÄR (2014) 08:14 / Pascal Flörks SOME THING (2015) 06.50 / Elena Walf JAZZ ORGIE (2015) 01:16 / Irina Rubina

Japan Media Arts Festival This program introduces eight video works which reflect everyday life in contemporary Japan through very Japanese depictions of the human emotions. The House of Small Cubes, the first Japanese film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, conveys an important, moving awareness through its precise, nostalgic world view. Other works in this program use minimalist techniques to excite the viewer’s imagination. Issey Miyake A-Poc Inside, for example, begins with simple graphics made from white dots, which fuse with music and rhythm to generate the movement of fashion models in a fashion show.

Remember me 05:13 / Misuzu HASHIJI, Remember me production team (Yosuke SAKAI, representative) JMAF, Entertainment Division, Jury Selections 2014 rain town 09:55 / Hiroyasu ISHIDA JMAF, Animation Division, New Face Award 2011 I am alone, walking on the straight road.

05:53 / Masanori OKAMOTO JMAF, Animation Division, Jury Selections 2012 kiokuzenkei 05:27 / Masashi YOKOTA JMAF, Art Division, Jury Selections 2008 Xylophone 02:02 / Morihiro HARANO, Jun NISHIDA, Seiichi HISHIKAWA, Kenjiro MATSUO, Mitsuo TSUDA, Toshifumi OISO JMAF, Entertainment Division, Jury Selections 2011 1347smiles 03:17 / Fuyu ARAI JMAF, Entertainment Division, Jury Selections 2013

ab_rah 03:13 / Kohei YOSHINO (networks) JMAF, Entertainment Division, Jury Selections 2010 ISSEY MIYAKE A-POC INSIDE. 02:50 / SATO MASAHIKO + EUPHRATES JMAF, Art Division, Excellence Award 2007 The House of Small Cubes 12:04 / Kunio KATO JMAF, Animation Division, Grand Prize 2008

Campus Genius Award The Campus Genius Award (Gakusei CG Contest) honors digital artworks created by students.

The continuity of this contest, which has been held for 21 years, underpins its important role in Japanese media arts. Incorporating new media and technology forms of expression that change with the times, the contest forms a gateway not only for computer graphic artworks, but for a wide range of diverse genres. Many past award-winners have also won high acclaim in the Ars Electronica, the Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale and the Japan Media Arts Festival and are working at the front line of several creative fields, such as art, design and entertainment.

Sushi (2015) 03:00 / Asami NAKAMURA Campus Genius Award 2015

Just Keep Running (2015) 04:12 / Wataru YOKOYAMA Campus Genius Award 2015

hairy heaven (2015) 06:00 / Minori YAMADA Campus Genius Award 2015

and, end (2015) 03:47 / Mio YAMANAKA Campus Genius Award 2015

MASTER BLASTER (2014) 03:51 / Sawako KABUKI Campus Genius Award 2015

ÉMIGRÉ (2015) 04:44 / Wataru NAKAJIMA Campus Genius Award 2015

Fox fears (2015) 07:38 / Miyo SATO Campus Genius Award 2015

Zdravstvuite! (2015) 05:23 / Yuki YOKO Campus Genius Award 2015

I Can’t Breathe (2015) 06:10 / Sayaka KIHATA Campus Genius Award 2015 Macky and Eucky in Midnight Gallery (2015) 08:42 / Rushio MORIYAMA Campus Genius Award 2015 Dreaming White (2015) 04:56 / Keigo TAKENAKA, Yuki NOMOTO Campus Genius Award 2015

The International Students Creative Award is an international arts and information media competition sponsored by the Knowledge Capital Association. It is for Japanese and international university, graduate school and vocational school students. http://kc-i.jp/en/activity/award/isca/2016/

Video Content Category / Domestic

Video Content Category / Overseas

slight fever 07:20 / Saho NANJO, Kyoto City University, Kyoto ISCA 2015, Grand Prize

Houchia 05:02 / Chen, Cheng-Yuan, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan ISCA 2015, 1st Prize

Macky and Eucky in Midnight Gallery 07:30 / Uguisu Kobo (Rushio Moriyama), Musashino Art University, Tokyo ISCA 2015, 1st Prize Locus 08:01 / Kiyoki Ouchi, Seian University of Arts and Design, Shiga ISCA 2015, 3rd Prize FREAKY!!!

03:51 / Shiori Hashimoto, Shobi University, Saitama ISCA 2015, 2nd Prize Sand castle 02:59 / Ayano Yamanaka, Musashino Art University, Tokyo ISCA 2015, 2nd Prize

EasyCare 05:18 / Blomme Molenstra, KASK (School Of Arts) Ghent, Belgium ISCA 2015, 2nd Prize Shift 05:28 / Yijun Liu and Maria Cecilia Puglesi, School of Visual Arts, USA ISCA 2015, 2nd Prize

Drone 100 – Intel in collaboration with Ars Electronica Futurelab holds the world record in the category Most Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Airborne Simultaneously. Photo credit: Intel Corporation

The International Students Creative Award (ISCA)

RADICAL ATOMS

and the alchemists of our time

ARS ELECTRONICA

Festival for Art, Technology and Society

POSTCITY Linz, September 8–12, 2016 www.aec.at/radicalatoms

Ars Electronica Linz GmbH Ars-Electronica-StraĂ&#x;e 1, 4040 Linz, Austria Tel. +43.732.7272.0, Fax +43.732.7272.2 E-Mail: info@aec.at

Prix Ars Electronica 2016 is made possible through the support of the City of Linz and the Province of Upper Austria.

The Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2016 is sponsored by MAXON Computer GmbH. Special thanks to KulturKontakt Austria, Casinos Austria, Cubus, Linz AG and Interio.

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