ARS ELECTRONICA ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2023, ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER, PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA

Animation Festival: Data, Bodies, Space

Jonathan Armour (IE), Ina Conradi (US/SG) and Mark Chavez (US), Maxime Chudeau (FR) Jieyuan Huang (CN/AT/DE), Bassam Issa (IE), Junha Kim (KR), Dorian Rigal Minuit (FR), Ryotaro Sato (JP), Wang & Söderström (SE)

Ars Electronica Center, Seminarraum
Fri 8. Sep 2023 10:00 – 11:30 / Sat 9. 12:30 – 14:00 / Sun 10. 11:00 – 12:30

Data, Bodies, Space shows an intriguing mix of different animation art practices, dealing with the “glitches” of our digitality-virtuality-reality condition. From nightmarish dystopian scenarios to speculative more-than-human ecologies, you are transported into a sensuous imaginary cyberspace, filled with hybrid beings, ambiguous heroes, data bodies and networked selves.

The selected shorts from Data, Bodies, Space fast-forward to a future which is fascinating and frightening at the same time. In The Needlecast Rhapsody we witness a technology that can upload humans to distant locations in the galaxy. Moirai – Thread of Life also shows a journey to different cosmic dimensions and touches on quantum physics to explain notions of fate. Posthuman Hospital and My Mind As/Is Your Memory, My Body As/Is Your Substance take one to a nightmarish posthuman dystopia, whereas Rehousing Technosphere gives a more hopeful look into a new planetary ecology in a more-than-human future in which the digital is everpresent yet endued with haptic and sensual properties. La Limite est une facade and IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS! depict mesmerizing journeys of fluidity and metamorphosis with a poetic approach, whereas CIRCVS MAXIMVS and Interchange feature a humorous take on virtual, computer-animated worlds and their relationship with the “real” world, highlighting the entanglements of power and control.

“Animation Festival: Data, Bodies, Space Jonathan Armour (IE), Ina Conradi (US/SG) and Mark Chavez (US), Maxime Chudeau (FR) Jieyuan Huang (CN/AT/DE), Bassam Issa (IE), Junha Kim (KR), Dorian Rigal Minuit (FR), Ryotaro Sato (JP), Wang & Söderström (SE).” ARS ELECTRONICA ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2023, ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER, PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA , September 4, 2023. https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/data-bodies-space/.

“Jury 2023 New Animation Art: Lev Manovich, Philippe Pasquier, Helen Starr, Mimi Son, Nora O’ Murchú.” Prix Ars Electronica, June 12, 2023. https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/juries/jury2023/#newanimationart.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2023 Ars Electronica Center

A collaboration between Ars Electronica and the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Hagenberg Campus, curated by Daniela Duca De Tey and Juergen Hagler

Ars Electronica Center Seminarraum
Fri 8. Sep 2023 10:00 – 11:30 / Sat 9. 12:30 – 14:00 / Sun 10. 11:00 – 12:30

“The 2023 Ars Electronica Animation Festival is a diverse showcase that invites spectators to discover current artistic productions in the field of digital animation. The selection has been mostly compiled of the submissions at Prix Ars Electronica 2023, which shifted its focus this year from “Computer Animation” to the landscape of “New Animation Art”. This meant it welcomed artists whose work expands on the cutting-edge intersection of animation, art and technology, approaching visual expression with unabashed experimentation.

Several exciting programs, taking place at Ars Electronica Center, will give witness to the diversity of this renewed category, not only in terms of storytelling techniques, conceptual explorations and technological innovation, but also in terms of their commitment to social change and new political imaginaries.

From the nearly 1,120 submissions, we have selected around 30 projects to be shown at Ars Electronica Animation Festival, featuring a broad spectrum of techniques: AI-generated images, photogrammetry, cinematic deepfakes, scientific and game simulations, real-time graphics and many others. The diverse selection invites new ways of thinking about how we experience the digital-virtual-real world we live in.”

“Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2023 A Collaboration between Ars Electronica and the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Hagenberg Campus, Curated by Daniela Duca De Tey and Juergen Hagler.” Ars Electronica Festival 2023 – Who owns the truth?, September 5, 2023. https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/ars-electronica-animation-festival-2023/.

Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space 8K Data, Bodies, Space, Sun 10. Sep 2023 13:30 – 14:00

Jonathan Armour (IE), Ina Conradi (US/SG) and Mark Chavez (US), Maxime Chudeau (FR) Jieyuan Huang (CN/AT/DE), Bassam Issa (IE), Junha Kim (KR), Dorian Rigal Minuit (FR), Ryotaro Sato (JP), Wang & Söderström (SE)
Data, Bodies, Space shows an intriguing mix of different animation art practices, dealing with the “glitches” of our digitality-virtuality-reality condition. From nightmarish dystopian scenarios to speculative more-than-human ecologies, you are transported into a sensuous imaginary cyberspace, filled with hybrid beings, ambiguous heroes, data bodies and networked selves.

The selected shorts from Data, Bodies, Space fast-forward to a future which is fascinating and frightening at the same time. In The Needlecast Rhapsody we witness a technology that can upload humans to distant locations in the galaxy. Moirai – Thread of Life also shows a journey to different cosmic dimensions and touches on quantum physics to explain notions of fate. Posthuman Hospital and My Mind As/Is Your Memory, My Body As/Is Your Substance take one to a nightmarish posthuman dystopia, whereas Rehousing Technosphere gives a more hopeful look into a new planetary ecology in a more-than-human future in which the digital is everpresent yet endued with haptic and sensual properties. La Limite est une facade and IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS! depict mesmerizing journeys of fluidity and metamorphosis with a poetic approach, whereas CIRCVS MAXIMVS and Interchange feature a humorous take on virtual, computer-animated worlds and their relationship with the “real” world, highlighting the entanglements of power and control.“

Data, Bodies, Space- Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space 8K.” Ars Electronica Festival 2023 – Who owns the truth? Sun 10. Sep 2023 13:30 – 14:00, September 13, 2023. https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/animation-festival-data-bodies-space/.