Prix Ars Electronica

The Prix Ars Electronica ( Prix: French for "price" Ars: Latin for " Art ") is a cultural award, which has been held festival for art, technology and society by the organizer ORF Upper Austria and the province of Upper Austria since 1987 as part of Ars Electronica. The ceremony of the "Golden Nica " will take place in Linz on the Danube in the Bruckner House. The trophy is modeled after the Nike of Samothrace, a statue of the ancient Greek goddess of victory Nike.

The objective of the Prix Ars Electronica is to show that the computer and digital technology have long been important tools for artists and creative people. Computer art is to be understood not only in the context of computer culture and net culture, but in interaction with current social and technological developments.

The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important awards in the field of electronic art and culture worldwide. Each Golden Nica award, with prize money of 10,000 euros (until 2001: 100,000 shillings ) doped and thus also one of the highest prizes in this area.

The Ars Electronica Festival, the Prix Ars Electronica has contributed significantly together with the Ars Electronica Center (AEC ) and the Linz Cloud of Sound to change the image of the city of Linz from an industrial site into a center for contemporary and future- oriented art.

2.1 Media.Art.Research Award
2.2 [the next idea ] Art and Technology Grant
Collide @ CERN 2.3
2.4 OHIM - Ars Electronica Prize

Winner of the Golden Nicas

Award Winners 2008

2009 award winners

2010 winners ( with ASIMO )

2012 winners

Prizewinners 2013

Interactive Art

The prices for this category will be awarded since 1990. This category includes a variety of works of installations and performances, typically with audience participation, virtual reality, multimedia and telecommunications.

Timo Toots (2012 )

Digital Music & Sound Art

This category is for all those who make electronic music and sound art through digital tools. From 1987 to 1998, this category was called Computer Music. 1987 two honorary Nicas were awarded. 1990 Golden Nica was not awarded and 1991 lacked the category altogether. 2012, the title to the addition of sound art has been expanded to reflect the range of content better.

Jo Thomas (2012 )

Internet Categories

In the categories World Wide Web (1995-1996) and. NET (1997-2000) interesting web-based projects have been awarded. The criteria are web-specific, community-oriented identity and interactivity. In 2001, this category was wider in scope and under the name Net Vision / Net Excellence established as an award for innovation in online media.

World Wide Web 1995 - Idea Futures by Robin Hanson
1996 - The Hijack project etoy

. net 1997 - Taos Sensorium Project
1998 - IO_dencies Questioning Urbanity Knowbotic Research
1999 - Linux by Linus Torvalds
2000 - In the Beginning ... what the Command Line ( excerpts ) by Neal Stephenson

NetVision / Net Excellence 2001 - Banja Team cHmAn and PrayStation by Joshua Davis
2002 - Carnivore by Radical Software Group and They Rule by Josh On and Future Farmers
2003 - Habbo Hotel by Sulake and Noderunner of Yury Gitman and Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena
2004 - Creative Commons ( United States )
2005 - Processing of Benjamin Fry and Casey Reas (USA / CA)
2006 - The Road Movie by exonemo (JP)

Computer Graphics

This category was awarded from 1987 to 1994 and was open to computer graphics from different fields - art, culture, science and research. Students could submit computer-generated graphics that were created by the individual programming of computers or the creative use of available computer programs.

Digital Communities

Iris Wu, a representative of the project 1kg more/1kg.org (2008)

Tim Pritlove, representative of the Chaos Computer Club (2010)

Sherien Al- Hayek, a representative of the Syrian People Know Their Way Project ( 2012)

Computer Animation / Film / Visual Effects

The category Computer Animation was awarded from 1987 to 1997 and renamed in 1998 to Computer Animation / Visual Effects. It is open to computer animations from different fields - art, culture, science and entertainment. You can submit computer-generated films that were created by the individual programming of computers or the creative use of available computer programs. A digital integration or combination with established traditional way footage is allowed.

Hybrid Art

Awards in this category were awarded for the first time in 2007. You can submit work which specially distinguished by the combination of various media and genres.

2007 - SymbioticA of Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory at the University of Western Australia
2008 - Pollstream - Nuage Vert by HEHE: Helen Evans ( FR / UK), Heiko Hansen ( FR / DE)
2009 - Natural History of the Enigma Eduardo Kac (U.S.)
2010 - Ear on Arm by Stelarc ( AU)
2011 - May the Horse Live in me from way Orienté Objet (FR)
2012 - Joe Davis of bacterial radio (U.S.)
2013 - The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project by Koen Vanmechelen (BE)

Joe Davis ( 2012)

U19 - freestyle computing

In this 1998 work created category of children and young people will be awarded to Austrian residence.

Agnes Aistleitner, winner of u19 2012

More Awards and Scholarships

Media.Art.Research Award

Assigned by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Medien.Kunst.Forschung. outstanding theoretical work is excellent here.

2006 - Aquaplay by Himanshu Khatri (IN)
2007 - Exe.cut [up] able statements - Poetic calculi and phantasms of Florian Cramer ( DE / NL)
2008 - Interact or Die! Arjen Mulder ( NL)
2009 - Eye hEar: Music, Art, Film & the Culture of Synaesthesia by Simon Shaw -Miller (UK)

[the next idea ] Art and Technology Grant

In this special category, the Ars Electronica awards in cooperation with voestalpine scholarships for forward-looking, but not yet realized concepts in the fields of art, design or technology.

2004 - moony Akio Kamisato, Satoshi Shibata, Takehisa Mashimo (JP)
2005 - USED Clothing by Martin Mairinger (AT)
2007 - SUN_D by Jonas Burki (CH)
2009 - Open_Sailing_Crew ( opensailing.net ), represented by Hiromi Ozaki (JP) and Cesar Harada (UK)
2010 - Hostage by Frederik De Wilde ( BE)
2011 - Choke Point Project of P2P Foundation ( NL)
2013 - Hyper form of Marcelo Coelho (BR), Skylar Tibbits (U.S.), Natan Linder (IL ) and Yoav Reches (IL )

Collide @ CERN

Created at the time being three years, the Artist in Residence program Collide @ CERN was created in 2011. In collaboration with the CERN artists get the opportunity to directly in the research facility for a period of up to three months to implement projects.

2011 - attempt among circles of Julius von Bismarck ( DE)
2012 - Acoustic Time Travel by Bill Fontana (U.S.)

OHIM - Ars Electronica Prize

Since 2013 innovations are awarded in the field of musical instrument construction are in this category, in cooperation with the Foundation OHIM (One- Handed Musical Instruments), the physically disabled to allow one-handed playing instruments at a professional level.

2013 - toggle -key saxophone by Jeff Stelling (U.S. ) and David Nabb (U.S.)

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