We are excited to report a special presentation of "Once Upon Unsteady Grounds" (OUUG) as an interactive online theater piece for the Master's students in Digital Arts at the University of Hagenberg.
Does technology help or prevent the creation of utopias? How does web- and location-based augmented reality work? How can public space be designed in a participatory way and how can AR support this?
Dreamshores
On 21 November, guests were invited to an interactive performance at the Künstlerhaus. A Draft Zero of 'Black Book', the new project by gold extra, was tested. The premiere of Black Book's final version is planned for 2025.
Quite a lot happens & happened with Internet Gaga this Autumn, here is a summary since September:
gold extra is represented at this year's ZIP-SCENE conference in Prague with a talk on "Once Upon Unsteady Grounds".
The video introduction to Once Upon Unsteady Grounds developed by BORG Oberndorf was honoured with the Culture Connected Award by OeAD!
On 12 October at 17:00, Sonja Prlić will give a lecture as part of the lecture series "Possibilities and Challenges of Aesthetic Education" at the Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark.
You can play the 2023 BRIEFS winner games now!
Lets do Switzerland!
On 8 September at 5:10 pm, Sonja Prlić and Reinhold Bidner will give a talk on "Games as Spaces for Communication" at the Expanded Animation Symposium at Ars Electronica. The symposium's topic is "The Art of Performance".
Curated by Georg Hobmeier and Evgeni Puzankov.
The experimental animated short film Internet Gaga (Director & Animation: Reinhold Bidner) will be screened in the Animated Music Video Competition programme at the Flipbo
Magdebörg is a single or cooperative tabletop roleplaying experience where you step into the shoes of a Magdeburg city dweller during the city's catastrophic sacking in 1631.
Internet Gaga, Reinhold's latest animation work wins Best Music Video at the Golden Kuker International Animation Festival in Sofia (Bulgaria).
BRIEFS is a micro publishing initiative that gives out small grants for small digital games.
Some info about film screenings in May:
1) Internet Gaga had its world premiere on 19.05.2023 in Finland at the Animatricks Animation Festival Helsinki.
The Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences invited us to join in the discussion and to present a few of our approaches at their Forward Event with the theme "From Submission to Design - Making New
Tickets for WE CARE are now available at the ticket shop of Szene Salzburg!
A performance date can be selected via the programme website and the ticket can be ordered directly online: ht
As part of the series "Projects of Change" of the Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues, Sonja Prlić talks together with Alexander Huemer and Harald Russegger about the question of whether digital applications lead to more participation.
On April 21st 2.45pm StoryCase is going to be presented at the Symposium of the Under the Radar Festival 2023 at University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Reinhold´s animated short film TikTort will be shown at two Filmfestivals end of April:
Filmfest Dresden
20.04. 2023, 6pm.
