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!

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.