Using exciting new approaches and somewhat different story telling, the alt narratives project aims to put highly complex scientific and artistic research on screen, making it accessible to a wider audience. In close collaboration with researchers and project managers at the University of Arts Linz, science communication is completely rethought to overcome structures of the classic „educational film“ and open up a broad field of creative and multidimensional exchange. The current alt narratives film, Dizzy Izzy, is based on research by senior scientist Dr. Sarah Kolb and was brought to the screen by Shari Ehlers, Thomas Guggenberger and Lisa Prast, graduates of Time-based and Interactive Media Arts at the University of Arts Linz.
Drawing on mathematical and philosophical concepts of relation, transformation and non-orientable spaces, the scientific animation film Dizzy Izzy explores why a donut can be equivalent to a coffee cup and how an artwork can be seen as an open-ended process. Being confronted with a series of surprising encounters, Izzy tries to find their way through the peculiar universe of Topologies of Artistic Research.
Credits
Directors - Thomas Guggenberger, Shari Ehlers
Animation - Lisa Prast
Script - Thomas Guggenberger, Shari Ehlers, Marlies Hajnal, Sarah Kolb, Andre Zogholy
Executive Producers - Andre Zogholy, Marlies Hajnal
Production Manager - Thomas Guggenberger
Narrator - Helena Blessing
Sound Design - Alex Siegl
Music - Anton Vertipolokh
Translations - Christopher Hüttmansberger
Based on her FWF project „Topologies of Artistic Research“ (10.55776/V813), this film was made in close collaboration with Sarah Kolb.
