Awards & Residencies
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Prix 2021: Students create their own world
School at home, no meetings with friends, long periods of being alone – the side effects of the pandemic, which is now in its second year, have hit the young generation especially hard in their important stages of life.
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STARTS Prize 2021: New products from food scraps
720 tons of food are thrown away in a single day in Catalonia. It is figures like these that have prompted Anastasia Pistofidou, Marion Real and The Remixers of Fab Lab Barcelona, IaaC, to take action.
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Prix 2021: “When the Sea sends Forth a Forest” Animation-Film remembers mass murder
There are hardly any pictures from that time. It has been over 40 years since Khmer Rouge supporters in Cambodia tried with full force to impose their ideology in the country, wiping out the lives of millions of people.
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STARTS Prize 2021: The condition of the oceans and how high the stakes are
The world’s oceans not only reflect light, they also reflect the effects of the Anthropocene, the age of humankind.
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Prix 2021: Exploring and composing music worldwide
Exploring new sounds – with great joy in experimentation and a healthy dose of passion.
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Prix Ars Electronica: What were the trends in 2021?
Since its foundation in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has always served as a trend barometer and platform for the collection of current and future visions of artists on the theme of “Art, Technology and Society”.
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Prix 2021: Musicians face the new reality
The reality as we experience it around us, we create ourselves. It is constructed and at the same time changeable and unstable.
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Prix 2021: “Cloud Studies” – When clouds tell stories
Clouds have been telling us all kinds of stories for ages. With the project “Cloud Studies”, the collective “Forensic Architecture” once again looks up to the sky and uses technological tools to re-read clouds of smoke, poison and gas.
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Prix 2021: Sustainable and fairer Internet for everybody
Can artificial intelligence help us become more environmentally sustainable? How can we reduce the growing energy requirements of cryptocurrencies? And how can we free the IT sector from fossil fuels?
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Artificial intelligence as a meta-researcher
An international collective experimenting between art and science. A multidisciplinary educational organization to explore the origin and nature of life in the universe and the evolution of intelligence. The beginning of a wonderful friendship.
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Focus on the Human Being
This year, for the first time, the BMEIA and Ars Electronica have issued a joint Award for Digital Humanity. The focus is on the human being.
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“It’s very radical. Very new.”
How does a pandemic empower creative thinking? Where does it make sense to value controversy? To what extent does physical presence foster descent?
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From Atakama to Araucanía: Chile at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021
Endless landscapes, the cycle of life and the language of trees: these artists and institutions will represent their home country of Chile at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.
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The Future Is Coded
Travel restrictions raise new challenges for cross-boundary artistic/scientific research. Residencies at the Ars Electronica Futurelab remain a source of mutual inspiration.
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Who was Isao Tomita?
He not only laid the foundations of the synthesizer boom, but also pushed boundaries and influenced numerous sound artists.
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Galaxies and black holes
What is the origin of life? What is the origin of the universe? Where do we come from and where are we going? Questions that have preoccupied mankind for millennia, and it doesn’t look like they will be solved soon. For a wonderfully playful perspective, artists are now joining in.
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How art and science can benefit from each other
Ars Electronica and the ArtCollection Deutsche Telekom are collaborating to select artists for a residency at the interface between the fields of art and science. To kick off the partnership, we spoke with both sides about the importance of Art&Science.
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In search of the evolution of intelligence in the universe
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence may make some people think of a funny guy in a bicycle basket, for others it has serious scientific relevance and is closely interwoven with research on artificial intelligence. Thinking off the beaten track helps in this multidisciplinary work.
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CyberArts 2020: The latest trends in media art
For over three decades, the Prix Ars Electronica has been one of the world’s most coveted awards for digital media art. With the CyberArts exhibition, the OK, as part of the newly founded OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, will once again devote itself to the award-winning works of international artists during the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival in…
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.art Domains and Ars Electronica Launch Online Exhibition for the Festival 2020
In response to the global pandemic and its impact, the leading new media arts festival Ars Electronica will premiere a dual format for its 2020 edition, including an online showcase in addition to the physical event. Ars Electronica has partnered with .art Domains to inaugurate Ars Electronica .ART Gallery, one of the online arms of…
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Christine Schöpf: “40 Years Are Enough!”
Christine Schöpf has accompanied Ars Electronica since its founding in 1979. Now, on the occasion of the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica, she says “40 years are enough” and takes leave of her official posts.
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STARTS Prize 2020: A Virtual Journey Through the Time Zones
Three members of the STARTS Prize 2020 jury, Mara Balestrini, Clara Blume and Domhnaill Hernon, talk in an interview about the influence of Covid-19 on this year’s jury process, the difference between design and art, recycling management and the usefulness of Excel lists.
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A Slightly Different Jury Weekend
The 2020 jury weekend was not spared from the corona virus: the winners of the STARTS Prize and the Prix Ars Electronica were selected digitally this year instead of during an analogue meeting in Linz.
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“We have to drastically rethink this jury meeting”
Every year an international jury of experts travels to Linz to jointly select the Golden Nicas of Media Art in intense discussions lasting several days. For the first time in the history of Prix Ars Electronica, the jurors will meet from their home offices.
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The Prix Ars Electronica Jury 2020: Digital Communities
Joint action and the digital exchange of information are right at the heart of the “Digital Communities” – one of the four categories of the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. We present this year’s jury.
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The Prix Ars Electronica Jury 2020: u19 – create your world
Young ideas and promising projects: These five experts in their respective fields will decide which are the best submissions to the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica in the u19 – create your world category.
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The Prix Ars Electronica Jury 2020: Computer Animation
Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has awarded a Golden Nica in the Computer Animation category every year. This is the jury that will decide on the best animation in 2020.
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Who are the u19 – create your world winners?
Until March 16, we’re looking for your projects and ideas or designs for the future in the u19 – create your world category of the Prix Ars Electronica. These five young creatives, innovators, and forward-thinkers have won the race for the Golden Nica in recent years.