A special program showcasing a selection of outstanding works submitted to the Prix Ars Electronica 2025 in the New Animation Art category. Animation, AI and digital media come together in an international showcase which shares underlying sentiments of doom and unease, dealing with identity, technology, politics, and life in the digital age, presenting the shifting boundaries of contemporary animation.
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In 2026, 1,144 works were submitted to the New Animation Art category. The jury selected a Golden; the official program highlights works ranging from AI-based experimental films and animated documentaries to game mods, installations, and physics-based animation.
SUPPER | Erick Oh | US | 6 min.
The ritualistic unfolding of a mysterious dinner. Winner Award for Distinction
The Cast of the Invisible | Lau Wai | HK | 13 min.
A day in the life of a motion-captured clone condemned to endless performance. honorary mention.
ARIA 夢姬 | Yu Shien Yang & Jin Keon | TW/KR | 7 min.
a requiem for a humanoid AI on the brink of being discarded as electronic waste. honorary mention.
Corpus and the Wandering | Jo Roy | CA | 7 min.
Auntlantis | Niceaunties | SG | 5 min.
Imagine a world overwhelmed by plastic waste, where environmental caretakers ״the aunties״ navigate hybrid oceans filled with sea creatures and jelly malls shaped by pollution and consumerism.
Light Up New York For But A Moment | Zhuyuan Liu | CN | 8 min.
Times Square is overtaken by a mutating media-monster as architecture dissolves into spectacle.
Greetings from the New World | Matthieu Mantovani | FR | 5 min.
Hovers distantly over derelict city structures and landscapes of excess.
CORE DUMP | Alona Rodeh | IL/DE | 4 min.
Surveys, from a drone’s perspective, a monumental e-waste dump in the desert.
Shockwave | Mihai Grecu | RO | 5 min.
Guides us on an infinite zoom-out through barren, AI-generated terrains in the cataclysmic aftermath of the atomic era.
