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u19 – Prix Exhibition

Martin Hieslmair — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:34:41 +0000

Use your eyes, ears and hands to experience prizewinning inventions and developments by some very talented young people. The u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD exhibition showcases the 15 best works submitted to the Prix Ars Electronica for prize consideration this year by artists, programmers and tinkerers under 19 years of age. They include works of (media) art as well as those dealing with social and environmental themes. The prizewinning works on display are so diverse that you’re bound to flip out over at least one of ‘em!

u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Ceremony

Martin Hieslmair — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:15:21 +0000

At the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Ceremony the prizewinners in the u19 category of the Prix Ars Electronica will be presented and honored.

Deep Space 8K: Post Refugee City

raphaelgi — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:15:18 +0000

Post Refugee City records the realities of everyday life in a refugee camp — in this case, Al Zaatari in Jordan — and represents an effort to find new ways to deal with such modern-day mass migration.
Artist Lukas Maximilian Hüller (AT) and Hannes Seebacher (AT) launched Let The Children Play in 2000. It has since made a name for itself worldwide as a way to sustainably raise awareness of children’s rights. The point of departure was an elaborately staged mock-up of Children’s Games, a 1560 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Al Zaatari refugee camp has since imparted a new direction to the project.

Art as a Means of Survival

Here, Hüller and Seebacher encountered children going through an extreme situation — life in a refugee camp — and got them involved in a photography project designed to underscore human beings’ inherent worth and dignity and to employ art as a means of survival. 60,000 children live in Al Zaatari, the world’s third-largest refugee camp with a total population of 100,000. Amidst what had recently been a wasteland devoid of human beings, an entire generation is suffering from the consequences of violence and displacement.

Snapshots

That hopelessness isn’t all that prevails here is demonstrated by Snapshots in Time, a documentary by filmmaker Robert Pöcksteiner (AT). It reports — without commentary — how these people, mortally afraid, fled from neighboring Syria, and how they now deal with their fate and pass the time each day. It’s also an account of the words and deeds of Kilian Kleinschmidt, the UN representative who had previously been in charge of this refugee city, and a man totally committed to making it a place fit for human beings under these precarious circumstances.

Kids’ Research Laboratory at PostCity

Martin Hieslmair — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 08:17:44 +0000

The Ars Electronica Center’s popular Kids’ Research Laboratory is a setting for what Albert Einstein called “the highest form of research”: play. At PostCity during the Ars Electronica Festival, the Kids’ Research Laboratory is operating a bigger-than-life-size play- & proving ground for up-and-coming explorers 4-8 years of age.

Play with the Elements

The spacious location features sandscapes, earth zones, watercourses and spots to toy with light and air. The watchwords: Discovering new stuff via trial & error. This is a site for digging, splashing, tossing, grinding and pitching in. Kids’ experiences with elementary materials like sand and water provide them with a fundamental understanding of volume and density, cause and effect.

Lab and Parents’ Corner

At the center of this wide-ranging playground is a laboratory where youngsters with an especially hearty appetite for knowledge can get a helping hand from Infotrainers to carry on their inquiries and get to the bottom of questions that arose during their playtime activities. In the Parents’ Corner, young and old can access media support in broadening their scientific horizon.

Ars Electronica Blog

“In fact, if you consider what other museums — in Austria and elsewhere in Europe too — have been doing, then you see that young people’s first contacts with technical and scientific topics don’t occur until they begin attending elementary school. Nevertheless, kids nowadays start encountering high tech and new media at a relatively early age, so I think it’s a good idea to get them started with a bit of an introduction and some training in the preschool phase.” Read more on the Ars Electronica Blog!

Science Shows by KinderUni OÖ

Martin Hieslmair — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 07:26:29 +0000

Kids are proud—they love talking about having learned or discovered something new. Science Shows put on by KinderUni OÖ (AT) provide an ideal setting for this show of enthusiasm. Kids age 7 to 14 give brief presentations that deliver insights into their approach to research, and graphic accounts of what they’ve gleaned from educational workshops staged by grown-up experts on the staff of KinderUni OÖ.

TableTalks – u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Symposium

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:37:50 +0000

Forget about “Don’t talk while you’re eating!” A mealtime gathering is a great opportunity for discussions, storytelling and opening up about your latest project. Enthusiasm is encouraged. You’re even allowed to talk with your mouth full! TableTalks are this year’s discussion & symposium format at u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD. Here’s where young people, Prix prizewinners, festivalgoers and artists, visionaries both young and old, and all those in search of a livable future and a decent meal can have their say and engage in the fine art of dinner-table conversation. About ideas, inventions and technology, arts & crafts; about individual takes on the issues the Festival is raising about the city and life in the future. So there’s no shortage of topics, and the Snack:Lab kitchen crew will see to it that diners have good things to say about the culinary quality of these TableTalks too.

THU Sept. 3, 2015 3 PM-4 PM	“Future Mobility”
FRI Sept. 4, 2015 3 PM-4 PM	“Future Citizens”
SAT Sept. 5, 2015 3 PM-4 PM	“Future Music”
SUN Sept. 6, 2015 3 PM-4 PM	“Future Resilience”
MON Sept. 7, 2015 3 PM-4 PM	“Future Education”

Moderation: Karin Schmid