At the Prix Forum IV the winners of the Prix Ars Electronica 2014 belonging to the category “Digital Communities” will meet each other: Takeo Saijo (JP) received the Golden Nica for Project Fumbaro Eastern Japan. Ole Reitov (DK) of Freemuse and Maria G. Perulero (ES ) of Goteo got a honorary mention for their projects. The moderator of the discussion will be Ian Banerejee (IN/AT), jury member of the Digital Communities category.

At the Prix Ars Electronica Forums, 2014 prizewinners have an opportunity to talk about their work, motives and motivations. The Ursulinensaal in the OÖ Kulturquartier is the venue for all of them except Prix Forum IV – Digital Communities, which will be held in Central.

Prix Forum I – Computer Animation/Film/VFX

SAT September 6. 2014, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space
with Kazuhiro Goshima (JP) (Shadowland / Award of Distinction),
Joe Gerhardt (UK) /(Jury member) and
Jürgen Hagler (AT) (Jury member)

moderated by: Quayola (IT/UK) (Jury member)

Prix Forum II – Interactive Art

SAT September 6. 2014, 1 PM – 2:30 PM
Ursulinensaal in OÖ Kulturquartier

with Paolo Cirio (IT/US) (Loophole for All / Golden Nica),
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez (UK) (Disarming Corruptor / Award of Distinction) and
Jacob Tonski (US) (Balance From Within / Award of Distinction)

moderated by: Irini Papadimitriou (GR/UK) (Jury member)

Prix Forum III – Visionary Pioneers of Media Art

SAT September 6. 2014, 3:30 PM – 5 PM
Ursulinensaal in OÖ Kulturquartier

with Roy Ascott (UK) (Golden Nica) and
Edward A. Shanken (US).

moderated by: Derrick de Kerckhove (CA)

Future Innovators Summit: Innovators Tea Time

SAT September 6. 2014, 5 PM – 6 PM

In this session of the Future Innovators Summit, eight participants will present their works and scrutinize them together with Roy Ascott (UK).

Future Innovators Summit: Rendezvous

SAT September 6. 2014, 6 PM – 7 PM

Prix Forum IV – Digital Communities

SUN September 7. 2014, 3:30 PM – 5 PM
Central Linz, Landstraße 36

with Takeo Saijo (JP) (Project Fumbaro Eastern Japan / Golden Nica),
Ole Reitov (DK) (Freemuse / Award of Distinction) and
María G. Perulero (ES) (Goteo / Award of Distinction).

moderated by: Ian Banerjee (IN/AT) (Jury member)

Future Innovators Summit: Innovators Tea Time

SUN September 7. 2014, 5 PM – 6 PM

Following presentations by eight more innovators, they’ll have an opportunity to discuss their undertakings with prizewinners in the Digital Communities category.

SUN September 7. 2014, 6 PM – 7 PM

Future Innovators Summit: Rendezvous

MON September 8, 2014, 11 AM-9 PM
Central Linz

The Ars Electronica Animation Festival showcases 140 works submitted for prize consideration to 2014 Prix Ars Electronica. They’re divided into 10 programs that offer a cross-section of the outstanding creative work animated filmmakers are currently doing in very diverse areas in this field—applications in art, science, R&D and industry.

New Standards

For years, it seemed impossible to keep pace with the impressive new developments coming out of VFX studios serving the movie business giants. In competition with them, films produced by artists and indie filmmakers usually didn’t stand a chance. But the rapid development of hardware and the price reductions that went along with it as well as the growing professionalism of the training that was available brought about a decisive change. Now, VFX has become an essential element of computer animation, a standard of everyday life in this field.

Increasingly Permeable Borders

Generative and interactive works, projections in an exhibition context or open-air setting, innovative hybrids of analog and digital animation that deliver totally new visual experiences, and found footage—all these developments attest to how this genre’s boundaries have steadily shifted outward and dissolved altogether.

Added Attractions …

The Animation Festival’s themed programs are supplemented by Young Animations, a selection of prizewinning films from last year’s Japan Media Arts Festival and a Campus Genius Awards-program also from Japan.

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Trailer & graphics by Johannes Poell and Orihaus, Trailer sound & audiodesign by Markus Koenig

The Themed Programs

Expanded Animation

In this program, animation takes leave of its usual screening rooms for venues that include gallery spaces, cathedrals, façades and landscapes, and reconfigures these settings in the process.

Box 05:25 | Bot & Dolly (US)

THE ARK 05:16 | Romain Tardy (FR)

A million times 01:21 | Humans since 1982 (SE/GE)

Lighthouse 3D Mapping. 01:34 | Yury Pelin (RU)

The Colony – A tale on Textile 03:25 | Joshuah Brindin Howard (US), Lorenz Potthast (DE), Jonas Wiese (DE) (Urbanscreen) with Svenja Keune (DE)

ESCAPE 06:11 | Laszlo Zsolt Bordos (HU)

O (Omicron) 04:27 | Romain Tardy (FR)

advection 04:02 | Robert Seidel, David Kamp (DE)

Light Leaks 01:22 | Kyle McDonald (US), Jonas Jongejan (DK)

the impenetrable 05:21 | mihai grecu (RO)

The Flood Panels 09:08 | DEPART (AT)

Khôra I. 06:18 | The Macula (CZ)

Experimental

Tests conducted amidst semi-abstract proving grounds and impressive technological experiments—a completely new way to deploy stereoscopy, for instance, or the use of found footage—produce new visual experiences of space and time.

Recycled 05:32 | Lei Lei (CN)

Spherical Harmonics 05:08 | Alan Warburton (GB)

Sliced 02:38 | Dxmiq (Maxim Meshkov) (RU)

SALIENCE Short Film 05:29 | Paul Trillo (US)

Hybrida 03:01 | Hans-Peter Minihuber, Dominik Pfeffer, Georg Wurz / University of Applied Sciences, Campus Hagenberg (AT)

Error de Formato 05:25 | Nicolás Rupcich (CL)

Thing 17:50 | Anouk De Clercq (BE)

abbau 05:02 | Masahiro Ohsuka (JP)

Plastic Infinite 05:26 | Dan Hayhurst, Reuben Sutherland (GB)

Mental States

Psychological states of emergency; fears; the ego’s dark sides—the quintessentially human perceptions that surface in Mental States call upon us to consider our own self.

LONELY BONES 10:00 | ROSTO (NL)

Defragmentation 14:02 | Saebyul Hwangbo (KP)

Futon 06:02 | Yoriko Mizushiri (JP)

ENCORE DES CHANGEMENTS 10:00 | Benoît Guillaume, Barbara Malleville (FR)

Portrait 02:51 | Donato Sansone (IT)

The Great Rabbit 07:12 | Atsushi Wada (Sacrebleu Productions, CaRTe bLaNChe) (FR)

Out of Bounds 6:36 | Viktoria Piechowitz (The Animation Workshop) (DE)

Myosis 02:22 | Emmanuel Asquier-Brassart, Ricky Cometa, Guillaume Dousse, Adrien Gromelle, Thibaud Petitpas (FR)

Narration

From lovingly poetic to coarsely comic, biting satire to loud-and-clear political statements—today’s filmmakers don’t shy away from any issue at all in the digital narratives they confront us with, and demonstrate yet again that there are no limits to computer animation’s storytelling capabilities.

Mr Hublot 11:48 | Alexandre Espigares (LU), Laurent Witz (FR) (ZEILT productions)

Chipotle Scarecrow 03:33 | Moonbot Studios (US)

Interview 05:17 | Mikkel Okholm (The Animation Workshop) (DK)

Hollow land 13:56 | Michelle and Uri Kranot (DK)

Kangaroos can’t jump backwards 02:24 | Rafael Mayrhofer (motiphe) (AT)

Once Upon a Candle 06:22 | Humphrey Erm (The Animation Workshop) (SE)

Silent 03:19 | Moonbot Studios (US)

Home sweet home 08:31 | Pierre Clenet, Alejandro Diaz, Romain Mazenet, Stéphane Paccolat (FR)

Escarface 04:52 | Lionel Arnold, Vincent Meunier, Eva Navaux, Pierre Plouzeau, Dario Sabato, Burcu Sankur (FR)

Comedy

When filmmakers start making up stories, abstruse, hilarious narratives are often the outcome. Giraffes mutate into high-divers; a silent community discovers language …

Fugu and Tako 08:00 | Ben West (AU)

Mute 04:22 | Job, Joris & Marieke (NL)

Mac ‘N’ Cheese – Supermarket 02:43 | Colorbleed Animation Studios, il Luster Films (NL)

Cock of the Walk 00:36 | Donavon Brutus, Matthew Jimenez (US)

Plot-O-Mat 02:49 | Iring Freytag, Florian Werzinski (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) (DE)

GUNTHER 06:32 | Erick Oh (US)

Birds 01:20 | Zeitguised (DE)

Supermoine Holypop 02:20 | Julien Bagnol (Supamonks) (FR)

Shave It 04:14 | Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso (3dar) (AR)

Wedding Cake 08:14 | Viola Baier (DE), Iris Frisch (AT)

5 METRES 80 05:23 | Nicolas Deveaux (CUBE CREATIVE PRODUCTIONS) (FR)

WISH LIST 03:00 | WISH LIST 03:00 | Griff & Scott Garrett (GB)

Sun of a beach 05:51 | Arnaud Crillon, Alexandre Rey, Jinfeng Lin, Valentin Gasarian (FR)

Inner Worlds

Minute organic worlds emerge in breathtaking detail. Microcosms and macrocosms reveal themselves. In the alliance of art and science, computer animation lets one behold what used to be invisible.

MITE 03:38 | Walter Volbers (DE)

The Rise and Fall of Globosome 05:45 | Sascha Geddert, Philipp Wolf (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) (DE)

Cellular Forms 04:43 | Andy Lomas (GB)

Comme des Organismes 02:10 | Zeitguised (DE)

Impermanence Trajectory: the limbic nest. 07:00 | Stefan Larsson (AUJIK)

Rugbybugs 01:35 | Matthias Bäuerle, Fabian Fricke, Emanuel Fuchs, Martin Lapp, Carl Schröter (DE)

The incredible Water Bear 04:34 | Reinhold Fragner, Martina Fröschl (Industrial Motion Art Filmproduktion GmbH) (AT)

PROXIMITY 02:50 | Peter Affenzeller (AT), Kristin Müller (DE), Manuel Preuß (DE)

Endtrip 05:10 | Olivier Ballast, Koen de Mol, Rick Franssen (The Outpost) (NL)

From the Pentagon Inequality to the Poincaré Universe 03:02 | Renate Quehenberger (Quantum Cinema) (AT)

Terra Incognita 10:00 | Rachel Clarke (US)

Motion

Motion was one of the foremost areas of exploration during computer animation’s formative years. Current examples range from poetic-artistic elaborations to funny stuff.

Walking City 07:49 | Matt Pyke (Universal Everything) (GB)

Cycles 720 02:32 | Craig Ritchie Allan (Numbercult) (GB)

Linear 02:54 | Julia M. Müller (DE)

SONATA 11:00 | Nadia Micault (FR)

y2o {distillé} 11:11 | dominique T Skoltz (SKOLTZ inc) (CA)

Land 03:30 | Masanobu Hiraoka (JP)

Buzzard 03:30 | Gero Doll aka Limbicnation (NA), Olivier Girardot (FR)

Nike Hyperfeel 04:00 | FIELD (GB)

Columbos 09:15 | Kawai+Okamura (FR)

Late for meeting 02:00 | David Lewandowski (US) 

Visual Music

This program features a diverse mix of works and genres that demonstrate how images and music can jam.

Light Motif 04:15 | Frédéric Bonpapa (FR)

Magma 01:28 | Dvein (ES)

Ghost Are Dancing 03:19 | Maxime Causeret, Gilles-Alexandre Deschaud (FR)

Heimcomputer 07:30 | Sophie Clements (GB), Toby Cornish (DE) (jutojo)

Beatcam 01:32 | Oscar Gonzalez Diez (Plastic Science) (UK)

Katachi 03:02 | Przemyslaw Adamski, Katarzyna Kijek (Kijek/Adamski) (PL)

Anatomy of a Poem 03:31 | Rebecca Ruige Xu (Syracuse University), Sean Hongsheng Zhai (Red Dot Blue Square LLC) (US)

Pop Psychology, messages from synapse 27 03:15 | Paul Fletcher (digital compost) (AU)

Le Peuple de l’Herbe – Parler le Fracas 04:26 | thomas / wasaru Fourniret (wasaru) (FR)

megu & patron “pari pari pa-ri-” 03:40 | Takashi Ohashi (JP)

Stop the Show 01:00 | Max Hattler (GB, DE, ES)

Xenas 05:15 | Arístides Job García Hernández (ES)

Mouse On Mars – Cream Theme 02:45 | Zeitguised (DE)

Young Animations

Animated work produced by young filmmakers: Every year, gifted young filmmakers submit their movies to u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD (Austria), bugnplay (Switzerland), MB21 (Germany) and C3

Schenk ein Lächeln 03:02 | u19 | Melanie Bauer, Tanja Griesser | 17-18 Jahre

Ve geldik – Und wir sind angekommen 03:34 | mb21 | Kooperation des Kinderinsel e.V. und des Türkischen Volkshaus e.V. in Frankfurt am Main | 11 Jahre

Not another brick in the wall – Ein Stein, der seine Wichtigkeit erfuhr. 03:21 | u19 | Marcel Klinger, David Lang, Johannes Lederer, Tobias Regier | 13 Jahre

Accidental Discovery 04:44 | c3 | Peter Vecsei | 17 Jahre

Femme Chanel – Amme Fenchel 04:06 | u19 | Sarah Oos | 19 Jahre

Das Kind 01:17 | u19 | Ju Hee Park | 17-18 Jahre

Verschöpft 4:42 | mb21 | Arne Hain, Dominik Erl, Toni Wunder | 18 Jahre

A Never Ending Friendship 02:49 | u19 | Anna Haslinger, Sophia Warbanoff |16 Jahre

Max’s Idea 02:36 | bugnplay | Tim Winkelmann | 14 Jahre

Das Geld macht den Unterschied 01:03 | u19 | Alexander Schneidermayer, Franz Ilmer, Chedi Chasanova, Sonja Widauer, Jacqueline Kohler | 14 Jahre

Hungry Fish 01:16 | u19 | Marvin Schürz | 15 Jahre

Motorist goes for chips 02:55 | c3 | Ágnes Király | 13 Jahre

no risk no fun 00:55 | mb21 | Richard Forstmann | 15 Jahre

Robob 01:38 | mb21 | Ronny Günt | 16 Jahre

Over the hills and far away! 01:51 | c3 | Bojaisokk (team) | 17 Jahre

Slow and steady wins the race! 03:29 | c3 | Mátyás Eckl | 17 Jahre

Get The Egg 02:32 | mb21 | Florian Tappeser, Dastin Luis Rauch, Lukas Schnorfell | 24 Jahre

BatRace 02:56 | bugnplay | Chris Leisi, Michael Stampfli | 21 Jahre

von KLEEblatt zu KLEEblatt 02:56 | bugnplay | Lea Hofer | 19 Jahre

HIHO 02:00 | u19 | Workshop mit Roland Schütz am Bundesschülerheim “Am Himmelhof”; BRG Diefenbachgasse; Proejktkoordinator Mag. Erich Wohlfahrter; Klasse 4hb | 13-15 Jahre

Reverie 03:36 | mb21 | Valentin Gagarin, Shujun Wong, Robert Wincierz und Manuel Senfft | 26 Jahre

Japan Media Arts Festival Selection

The Japan Media Arts Festival honors outstanding works from a wide range of media in four award categories: Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga.

Sound of Honda / Ayrton Senna 1989 | 01:30 | 17th Japan Media Arts Festival | Kaoru Sugano, Sotaro Yasumochi, Yu Orai, Nadya Kirillova, Kyoko Yonezawa, Kosai Sekine, Taeji Sawai, Daito Manabe (JP, RU)

minicar music player. | 01:36 | 17th Japan Media Arts Festival | Kensaku Kakimoto (JP)

YAKENOHARA “RELAXIN’ | 05:10 | 17th Japan Media Arts Festival | Saigo No Shudan (Ayumu Arisaka, Mai Oita, Ren Kohata) (JP)

salyu × salyu “hanashitaianatato” | 03:37 | 16th Japan Media Arts Festival | Koichiro Tsujikawa (JP)

ballet rotoscope | 03:15 | 15th Japan Media Arts Festival | Masahiko Sato + EUPHRATES (JP)

Strata #4 | 01:54 | 16th Japan Media Arts Festival | Quayola (IT)

TOKYO CITY SYMPHONY | 03:13 | 17th Japan Media Arts Festival | Tsubasa Oyagi, Kampei Baba, Koshi Takcom/Miura, Takayuki Watanabe, Sadanori Maeda, Toshiyuki Hashimoto, Hironori Terai, Takahiko Kajima (JP)

Haisuinonasa “Dynamics of the Subway” | 04:22 | 16th Japan Media Arts Festival | Keita Onishi (JP)

Travis “Moving” | 04:28 | 17th Japan Media Arts Festival | Tom Wrigglesworth, Matt Robinson (UK)

Z-MACHINES | 05:20 | 17th Japan Media Arts Festival | Z-MACHINES Project (JP)

Suidobashi Heavy Industry “KURATAS” | 03:05 | 16th Japan Media Arts Festival | Kogoro Kurata / Wataru Yoshizaki (JP)

Professor Kliq “Wire & Flashing Lights” | 01:39 | 17th Japan Media Arts Festival | Victor Haegelin (FR)

WORLD ORDER in BUDOKAN | 02:21 | 17th Japan Media Arts Festival |WORLD ORDER (JP)

Roy Tamaki “Wonderful” | 03:51 | 17th Japan Media Arts Festival | Roy Tamaki (JP)

Campus Genius Award

The Campus Genius Award (Gakusei CG Contest) honors digital artworks created by students. This year, it celebrates its 20th anniversary and by this verifies its important role in the history of Japanese Media Arts. In this year’s Ars Electronica, a series of animated short films is being screened.

Airy Me 05:39 | 2013 | YOKO Kuno

sweet picnic 03:19 | 2011 | koya

1912-2012 vol.1 02:07 | 2013 | Nakamura Masashi

Otaku Dash!! 01:03 | 2013 | Nakamura Masashi

Karakuri Canon 03:30 | 2013 | Iwamoto Yushi

Wild Wild Ham 04:46 | 2013 | Kawaguchi Eri

Usalullaby 05:33 | 2013 | Ike Asami

ANAL JUKE – anal juice – 02:57 | 2013 | Kabuki Sawako

Natural Incubation 10:02 | 2013 | Aoyagi Natsumi

CYCLOID 03:27 | 2013 | Kurogi Tomoki

Daily lives at Daisy Lodge 08:22 | 2013 | Wakai Manami

Daily program

THU September 4, 2014

11 AM Experimental

12 PM Mental States

1 PM Narration

2 PM Visual Music

3 PM Japan Media Arts Festival Selection

4 PM Comedy

5 PM Inner Worlds

6 PM Campus Genius Award

7 PM Motion

8 PM Expanded Animation

FRI September 5, 2014

11 AM Mental States

12 PM Visual Music

1 PM Motion

2 PM Japan Media Arts Festival Selection

3 PM Young Animations

4 PM Campus Genius Award

5 PM Narration

6 PM Comedy

7 PM Experimental

8 PM Inner Worlds

SAT September 6, 2014

11 AM Inner Worlds

12 PM Comedy

1 PM Expanded Animation

2 PM Motion

3 PM Experimental

4 PM Mental States

5 PM Pixels & Piano: Music Visualisations

SUN September 7, 2014

11 AM Young Animations

12 PM Visual Music

1 PM Pixels & Piano: Music Visualisations

MON September 8, 2014

11 AM Narration

12 PM Expanded Animation

1 PM Young Animations

2 PM Mental States

3 PM Campus Genius Award

4 PM Motion

5 PM Japan Media Arts Festival Selection

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6 PM Comedy

7 PM Inner Worlds

8 PM Experimental