Ars Electronica : animation highlights : holiday
September 18th, 2009 by lunamanJust back from holidays. Our trip through Bavaria and Austria coincided with the Ars Electronica festival in Linz for one night. We took pot luck and visited the OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ cinema to catch the free Animation Festival, after a few beers in the exceedingly cool bar of course. Of the five animations in the Late Night session we saw, Nadia Micault‘s Naïade particularly caught the eye. Beautiful, sweet with Brothers Quay style dolls and a Miyazaki back-to-nature storyline.
Also notable was Laurie Hill’s funny Photograph of Jesus. You can watch the whole thing on YouTube.
Linz was an exciting town, a feeling perhaps enhanced by having spent the previous two quiet nights in a tent in the heart of the Bayerischer Wald!
The Ars Electronica centre building itself hosted a late night show of 3D cinema. This was pretty much my first experience of immersive cinema of this sort, and it was definitely impressive, after two beers and no food. Food was extremely hard to find in Linz – I’m not sure if all the hungry electro-art afficionados had just eaten it all, or the ongoing wine festival in town had just changed everyone’s priorities.
Other quick art highlights from the trip:
- the incredibly empty Alte Pinakotek in Munich
- James Turrell’s Sky Space in Salzburg – CLOSED except for 15 minutes per day??? What is the point of that?
- Tony Cragg show at the same Salzburg Museum der Moderne Kunst
- Fabulous exhibition of inter-war art from Austria at the Schloß Bruck, Lienz
Turrell’s Sky Space in Salzburg