
For those who don’t want to miss this spectacular event, seating tickets will be available at the venue one hour before the event. Maki Namekawa will be accompanied by Cori O’Lan’s real-time visuals, creating an immersive visual interpretation of the pieces. Presented will be a new interpretation of Keith Jarret’s Ritual for piano solo and Toccata by Joe Hisaishi, a Japanese composer, pianist and conductor who has written music for more than a hundred films.
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While the Festival University trial is still in full swing, another highlight of the day already begins at 13:00 in the Circus of Knowledge: Named Pianographique, Maki Namekawa’s concert will once again take us on her explorations of the music of our time. Interested? If you want to learn more about the project, you can take a look behind the scenes with this blog post. For those who have never heard of the Festival University: In the course of this project by JKU and Ars Electronica, students from about 70 countries have already gathered in Linz in mid-August and, in preparation for the fictional court hearings during the festival, adressed various climate and socially relevant topics together with international experts in lectures, discussions and workshops. On this day, the case of energy will be dealt with.

This will be followed by the Prix Forums for each category, a great way to learn more about the artists behind the projects, their artistic process, and the background to their work.Īt 10:30 – if we move a tad away from the Kepler Building – the final day of the International Environmental and Climate Court’s fictional trials will start on the Festival University Stage.

They will begin at 10:00 with the panel discussion A Plantless Planet: Art and Science as a Tool for Plant Resistance. The conferences will take place in the Kepler Building, Lecture Hall 1.

In addition to this exhibition of artworks, however, another program item on Prix Day is devoted to the Prix Ars Electronica: the Prix Forums. The Prix has always served as a mirror of society, granting us a different look at the relationship between society and technology and even the world at large each year. First, of course, the CyberArts Exhibition will still be open in the campus dining hall in Kepler’s Gardens, presenting the winning works selected by experts from around the world. The Prix has been one of the most important media art competitions since 1987 and will be represented at the Festival on Sunday in two formats. But with the talented Audrey Tautou in the leading role, Amelie is sheer delight, and will entrance everyone who sees it.Prix Day – the last day of the Ars Electronica Festival is devoted entirely to the Prix Ars Electronica – and thus to art. He also creates a wonderful array of characters who need Amelie's encouragement, played by a gallery of fine actors, including Jeunet regular Dominique Pinon, as a lovesick patron of the cafe, Rufus, as Amelie's father and Matthieu Kassovitz, as a young man obsessed with collecting photos left behind at automatic booths.Īmelie was rejected by the Cannes film festival this year, but it was a mega-success in France, though some writers have attacked it for its Mary Poppins-ish depiction of a Paris where no people of colour are to be seen and old-fashioned attitudes reign. With a little help from digital enhancing, Jeunet recreates a Paris as it might once have been, without really going back into the past. It's the most benign film to date from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the gifted visual stylist who created some very dark films like Delicatessen, City Of Lost Children and his Hollywood thriller, Alien Resurrection. In her sweetly optimistic way she determines to help the people around her, to change their lives, while she herself maintains a solitary life.Īmelie or, to translate the original French title, The Fabulous Destiny Of Amelie Poulain, is both very original and rather old-fashioned. Amelie decides to try to track down the boy, now a man, and return his childhood toys. Now she works as a waitress in an old-style cafe and her life is changed forever on the day Princess Di is killed – when she discovers, hidden behind her bathroom wall, a box left there by a boy who once lived in the house. She's an only child whose mother died young and whose father was convinced she was suffering from a heart ailment so she never went to school and as a result lived a lonely life filled with fantasies.
