u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD
under [my] control – Round Table
The culmination of the under [my] control market day at Arkade is an oversized round-table at which 20 experts in various disciplines will gather for an alfresco public discussion. Their topic: whether there are technologies that can protect us from excessive media consumption, or whether other strategies are needed to deal with changed media usage patterns. Continue reading
Deep Space LIVE: Presentation u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD 2014
The grand finale of this year’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD will be a review of all the cool stuff that went on over the past four days on Spittelwiese and a presentation of what was developed at Youtube:Lab and Film:Lab, by and with Kino5 and under the motto of Animate Your City. Continue reading
Henri. The Experiment
Divided up into five groups, young people take a close-up look at social reality. What’s the deeper meaning of the terms trust, humanity, social innovation and resilience? These concepts occupied the attention of Red Cross founder Henri Dunant, and are still deserving of consideration today. Continue reading
Forum of the Academy of Austrian Film
Why do you make films? The Academy of Austrian Film will pose a presumably simple question at the forum staged in conjunction with u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD this year. The tantalizing nature of the query is further heightened by the composition of the panel whose members will be responding from their very diverse perspectives. Continue reading
u19 Exhibit
Film is the theme of the 2014 u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Future Festival of the Next Generation. And that’s a happy happenstance, since this year’s Golden Nica winner in the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category, Sarah Oos, is being honored for “Femme Chanel – Emma Fenchel”, a film montage that makes use of found footage. Continue reading
u19 Ceremony – Prix Ars Electronica Walk of Fame!
We say: If you’re gonna stage an awards ceremony, then do it right! The 2014 winners in the Prix Ars Electronica’s category for young people won’t be receiving only trophies and certificates. For the first time this year, they’ll also be immortalized on a Walk of Fame. Continue reading
LipDub – Take a Chance, Take a Change!
If you happen to see a torrent of merry folks from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds dancing their way through downtown Linz while lip-syncing a blaring playback of ABBA’s hit song Take A Chance on Me, then you might think that Mardi Gras is awfully late this year or mass lunacy has broken out. But never mind, what’s underway is merely a collective emotional experiment. Continue reading