Five works were selected from more than two hundred competition entries.

Bernadette Mozer (ehem. Baumann) and Konstantin Jagsch: Switching-Off
“Our daily routes through public space are informed by self-images of passivity and a constant stream of information. We are denied the freedom to select sources and contents on our own. Media screens, City Lights, and other displays have been mounted all over the city. While these displays claim to establish the city’s ‘modern’ appearance, they actually divert us from essential things. Glances, communication, and many other things are increasingly vanishing from communal life. Switching-Off critically questions the progressive stimulus satiation and information bombardment and uses the twenty seconds available for a disconnection from the circuit of uninterrupted overexcitement—“a switching-off in the public interest.” (B. Baumann and K. Jagsch)

Kuesti Fraun: Friends by Nature
“What could be more beautiful than a warm embrace when it comes to signaling a deep, inner affection—an embrace out of the blue? People need air and trees as well as love.” (K. Fraun)

Birgit Graschopf: Domesticities
“Domesticities playfully switches between absurd scenes and actions. The video is based on silhouette-like drawings. Often only discernable at a closer look, calculated animations unfold narratives that hint at social norms, conventions, constraints, and bonds.” (B. Graschopf)

Daniel Kovacs and Thorsten Mozer: Encounter
“The city, and above all its public space, is an anonymous place. Urbanites live separate lives: People in Vienna know each other from looking the other way, as the saying goes. Electronic devices provide a welcome refuge from the city’s everyday reality. We are always on our way, moving from one place to the other. While we meet people digitally in newsfeeds, real encounters have turned into moments of shock.” (D. Kovacs and Th. Mozer)

Niclas Anatol Walkensteiner and Romana Egartner: Today’s Cities, Tomorrow’s Ruins
“Places of change are subject to spatial planning systems determined by continuously evolving parameters—coming from nothingness, striving high, and disappearing when returned to their origin.” (N. A. Walkensteiner and R. Egartner)