Prix Ars Electronica – Radical Atoms

Prix Ars Electronica Forums – Art & Science

Vanessa Graf — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:39:58 +0000

The Prix Forums are produced by the European Digital Art and Science Network.

At the Prix Ars Electronica Forums, the 2016 Prix Ars Electronica prizewinners will personally discuss their works, their motifs and their motivations.

The Prix Forums furnish an extraordinary opportunity to festivalgoers—a chance to meet the human beings behind the works of art. Here, you can enjoy up-close-and-personal encounters with the artists honored by the Prix Ars Electronica and the jurors who made the selections. In formal speeches and casual conversations, you can find out more about the works, the ideas behind them, and the challenges the artists responded to.

The 2016 theme, “Art & Science,” accentuates that this year, more than ever, the focus is on the interplay and reciprocal impact of science and art. The gathering place of the participating artists and scientists is, once again, the Ursulinensaal at OÖ Kulturquartier—with one exception: The Prix Forum I – Computer Animation / Film / VFX will be staged in CENTRAL.

Prix Forum I – Computer Animation/Film/VFX

The Computer Animation / Film / VFX Prix Forum will deal with developments in the animation field. With Gerfried Stocker (AT), Boris Labbé (FR), Yuya Hanai (JP), Mari-Liis Rebane (EE) and Johannes Schiehsl (AT).

Prix Forum II – Digital Communities

The Digital Communities Forum is dedicated to the social consequences of global interconnection via digital networks. With Sarah Kriesche (AT), Stacco Troncoso (ES), Paul Feigelfeld (AT) and Nakano Hitoyo (JP).

Prix Forum III – Interactive Art +

The Interactive Art+ Forum will elaborate of interactive works and the expanded interpretation of interactive art. With Victoria Vesna (US), Mathias Jud (CH), Christoph Wachter (CH) and Frank Kolkman (NL).

Prix Forum IV – Visionary Pioneers of Media Art

The Prix Forum IV will be dedicated to Jasia Reichardt, this year’s Visionary Pioneers of Media Art laureate. With Jasia Reichardt (UK) and Christine Schöpf (AT).

OK Night: Electronic Theatre

katjani — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:18:28 +0000

Electronic Theatre features all prizewinning works in the 2016 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Film / VFX category.
Filming and photography during Electronic Theatre screenings are strictly prohibited.

Program

Rhizome
Boris Labbé (Sacrebleu Productions) (FR)
Golden Nica

Nosaj Thing / Cold Stares ft. Chance The Rapper + The O’My’s
ELEVENPLAY (JP), Daito Manabe (JP), MIKIKO (JP), Rhizomatiks Research (JP), TAKCOM (JP)
Award of Distinction

Peripheria
David Coquard Dassault (FR)
Award of Distinction

Ghost Cell
Antoine Delacharlery (FR)
Honorary Mention

Tehran-Geles
Arash Nassiri (Le Fresnoy) (IR)
Honorary Mention

7001
Nataša Teofilović (RS)
Honorary Mention

Never Say Never
Saman Kesh (Skunk) (IR)
Honorary Mention

Coordinated Movement
Mike Pelletier (CA)
Honorary Mention

Uncanny Valley
AlteredQualia (SK)/ Fractal Fantasy (AT/CA)
Honorary Mention

geist.xyz
ZEITGUISED (DE), Superimposed Void (DE)
Honorary Mention

MOOM
Robert Kondo (US), Daisuke Tsutsumi (JP) (Tonko House, CRAFTAR, Marza Animation Planet)
Honorary Mention

Bio-Inspire FullDome AV Performance
Bahadir Dağdelen, Yusuf Emre Kucur (VOID) (TR)
Honorary Mention

Simulacra
Theo Tagholm (UK)
Honorary Mention

Accidents, Blunders and Calamities
James Cunningham (Media Design School) (NZ)
Honorary Mention

Deep Space 8K: Rhizome

katjani — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:54:56 +0000

Rhizome is an experimental animated short film that has its foundation in the homonymous philosophical concept coined and developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Gattari, involving research that is close to Steve Reich’s serial music, Escher’s mathematical art work, Bruegel and Bosch’s paintings and various scientific theories about the development of life, genetics, the infinitely small and the infinitely large.

From the beginning the film propels us to a big zoom over a dimension that has not been accessible for us until now, infinitely small or infinitely far away. There we attend the birth of an unknown form of life. By repetition, connection or metamorphosis the organism experiences rapid evolution, giving shape to three major ways of evolution: organic, vegetable and mineral. For his visual depiction of a universe in which everything is tightly interconnected, Boris Labbé has been announced as the winner of the Golden Nica in the 2016 Prix Ars Electronica’s Computer Animation / Film / VFX category.

Credits: Director: Boris Labbé; Animation: Boris Labbé, Loïc Sitti, Wen Fan; Compositing: Boris Labbé, Sami Guellaï; Music: Aurélio Edler-Copes; Sound mix: Victor Praud; Producer: Ron Dyens; Sacrebleu Productions 2015

The film received support from the Agence Culturelle d’Alsace during a two-month pre-production residency and from the Ciclic Région Centre during eight months on a production residency in 2014. The film also received financial support from SACEM, CNC, France Television and Procirep—Angoa.

Rhizome: Everything Is Interconnected