Like every year, Ars Electronica Animation Festival On Tour showcases recent artistic trends in the field of digital animation. The selection, compiled of the submissions at Prix Ars Electronica 2024 in its recently renewed category New Animation Art demonstrates the transformations and dynamics occurring within the field of animation. Even more strongly than previous years, one could observe the tendency of many creators to utilize specific tools (such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, DALL-E, Sora, Runway, or ChatGPT) in a self-reflexive manner enabling critical commentary on the socio-technical nature of these systems and their impact on our society.

Moreover, we noticed that a remarkable one-third of the submissions were projects created

using AI tools or centered around AI as a theme—the highest number to date.

From the nearly 900 submissions, around 45 projects were selected and showcased at Ars

Electronica Animation Festival in September 2024. More than a half of them have been included in the On Tour program, and available now as four outstanding compilations: Best-Of Prix Ars Electronica, Austrian Animation, Young Animations, Science and Data Visualizations.

Full programme of Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2024:

https://ars.electronica.art/hope/en/animation-festival-2024/

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