Registration for Prix Ars Electronica starts January 12!

[Wolfgang Bednarzek]

  Subject:Registration for Prix Ars Electronica starts January 12!

  Date:   Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:15:53 +0100
  From:   "Wolfgang Bednarzek" <Wolfgang.Bednarzek at aec.at>
  To:     "Wolfgang Bednarzek" <Wolfgang.Bednarzek at aec.at>



  OnlineRegistration for Prix Ars Electronica starts January 12!


  Registration starts on Monday. A total of seven Golden Nica prizes as

  well as Awards of Distinction and Honorary Mentions will be handed out

  in six categories. Innovations this year is besides the new category
  ‘Digital Communities’ a spin-off of the ‘Prix Ars Electronica’s u19

  freestyle computing’ category: [the next idea] competition honors

  outstanding concepts for not-yet-produced projects by artists age 19-

  27. Entries may be submitted for Prix Ars Electronica consideration
  from January 12 on http://prixars.aec.at .



  Linz (9.1.2004) Seven Golden Nicas—the coveted statuettes presented to
  the grand prizewinners—as well as a total of 130,000 Euros in prize

  money will be awarded in the following six categories in 2004: Digital

  Communities, Net Vision, Interactive Art, Computer Animation/Visual

  Effects, Digital Musics and u19 freestyle computing.


  New Categories


  To mark Ars Electronica’s 25th anniversary, the Prix Ars Electronica is

  expanding the international scope of its activities and focusing on

  phenomena of tremendous current relevance to Information Society. The
  new Digital Communities category will recognize exemplary initiatives

  that are advancing the openness of Information Society.     Examples of

  the activities on which it will focus include collective “blogging“

  (gathering opinions, information and links) in the Internet,
  spontaneously congregating “flash mobs” (large-scale assemblies

  organized online or via cell phone), learning, gaming, and fan

  communities, e-government portals, and innovative developmental

  projects in so-called Third World countries. 


  The prizes in this category will be awarded by a jury made up of

  leading international experts including Joichi Ito, Shanthi Kalathil,
  Howard Rheingold and Oliviero Toscani. The winners will be singled out

  for recognition in June 2004 at a ceremony in New York, where their

  projects will then go on public exhibition. The prizes in the other

  “classic” categories will be handed out as in the past at the Prix Ars
  Electronica Gala in Autumn 2004 in Linz.



  Expanded Category for Young People


  The u19 freestyle computing category is being expanded in 2004. This

  competition is for works of animation, Internet projects, sounds,
  graphics, software and even robots created by computer freaks and

  novices alike age 19 and under. Besides the Golden Nica, special

  merchandise prizes will be awarded to exceptional young artists in

  different age groups.


  Plus, a new category focusing on ideas for not-yet-produced projects by

  artists age 19-27 is being launched this year. The aim of [the next
  idea] competition is to discover concepts for tomorrow in young minds

  today. The winner will receive a grant as well as the opportunity to

  bring his/her project to fruition as Artist in Residence at the Ars

  Electronica Futurelab.


  Entries: http://prixars.aec.at




  Please find logo and additional information at http://www.aec.at/press in
  the Section "Prix"


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  The Prix Ars Electronica


  The Prix Ars Electronica is being held for the eighteenth time in 2004.
  This cyberarts competition has been conceived as an open platform for a

  wide range of artistic disciplines in the digital media domain at the
  interface of art, technology and society. With more than   21,000 works
  submitted since 1987 by 17,000 participants representing 87 countries,
  the Prix Ars Electronica has become the most important and successful

  international showcase of the best of digital media art.

   


  Contact                                                                       

  Wolfgang A. Bednarzek


   Pressesprecher / Press Officer


  AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz, Hauptstraße 2, 4040 Linz, Austria


   tel ++43.732.7272-38.

  fax ++43.732.7272-638.


   wolfgang.bednarzek at aec.at


   


  Press Lounge at Ars Electronica: http://www.aec.at/press

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  Wolfgang A. Bednarzek
  Pressesprecher / Press Officer


  AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz
  Hauptstraße 2, 4040 Linz, Austria


  tel ++43.732.7272-38
  fax ++43.732.7272-638

  wolfgang.bednarzek at aec.at

  Press Lounge at Ars Electronica:
  http://www.aec.at/press