Website/Blog/YouTube/ or Viemeo site
https://ars.electronica.art/
When and how have you participated at SIGGRAPH Conferences? (exhibits, talks, panels, performance, screenings). OK if you have not participated.
SIGGRAPH 2023
Are you a member of ACM SIGGRAPH?
Yes
Are you on a SIGGRAPH Committee?
NO
Have you shown art in any SIGGRAPH Art Shows?
No
Have you shown in any SIGGRAPH Animation Screenings?
No
What countries do you work in?
Austria
Short Bio
Dr. Juergen Hagler is an academic researcher and curator at the interface of animation, game, and media art. He studied art education, experimental visual design, and cultural studies at the University for Art and Design Linz, Austria. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer Animation and Media Studies and the head of studies of the bachelor’s and master’s programme Digital Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus. Since 2014 he is the co-head of the research group Playful Interactive Environments with a focus on the investigation of new and natural forms of interaction and the use of playful mechanisms to encourage specific behavioral patterns. He has been involved in the activities of Ars Electronica since 1997 in a series of different functions. Since 2017 he is the director of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival and initiator and organizer of the Expanded Animation Symposium (since 2013) and Expanded Animation – Synaesthetic Syntax Conference (since 2020). In 2023, he founded ANIMA PLUS, a Linz-based organization to support animation art and culture in Upper Austria and beyond.