Jury
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There Is No Bio Art!
Jens Hauser is a curator, a scholar in media & cultural studies, and a journalist who writes about cultural matters. He’s curated some of the best-known exhibitions at the interface of art and biology. 2015 he was a juror in the Hybrid Art category.
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“Cities or depressing surroundings inspire me”
Seppo Gründler, 2015 Prix Ars Electronica juror, discusses the criteria that entries in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category have to fulfill, and tells where he finds motivation for his compositions.
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This Isn’t a Matter of Technical Sophistication; Emotions Are What Counts!
The Prix Ars Electronica has staged a competition for young people ever since 1998. In the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category. Sirikit Amann has served as a juror in this category every year since its inception.
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Hybrid Art: Projects in Interstices
Hybrid Art jurymember, Susanne Jaschko, talks about “prozessagenten”, current trends in transdisciplinary art, and her initial impressions of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival location.
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Prix Ars Electronica 2015: The Juries’ Verdicts Are In!
The 25 international experts have concluded their deliberations and named the recipients of the five Golden Nicas and other honors. Here’s a look back at the 2015 Prix jury meetings, one of the most exciting weekends in the Ars Electronica year.
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“I love when the idea takes me by surprise”
Rikke Frisk, one of the Prix Ars Electronica jurors who’ll be selecting this year’s recipient of [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant, talks about how she draws inspiration and why it’s so important to travel when you’re in search of solutions.
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First the Question, then the Answer
Kazuhiko Washio, creative director and producer at the Hakuhodo ad agency in Japan and a 2015 Prix Ars Electronica juror, is absolutely certain that before beginning to seek the right answers, we must first pose the right questions.
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Investigating, Discovering and Comprehending via Game Playing
Since 2003, Elisabeth Menasse-Wiesbauer has been director of the ZOOM Kindermuseum and we’re honored that she has agreed to serve as a Prix Ars Electronica juror this year in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category.
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There’s no “Vodka” Sound Art
Which tools Sergei Kasich utilizes, how the Russian sound artist works, and some of the experiences he’s had in conjunction with many art projects carried out in Russia—these are a few of the talking points covered in this interview with the 2015 Prix Ars Electronica juror.
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Animated Films with Character
Animated films are his passion! Rob O’Neill, a 2015 Prix Ars Electronica juror and character technical director supervisor at DreamWorks Animation, talks about current trends in character design and what filmmakers have to do to build up a portfolio that really makes people sit up and take notice.
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The juries of Prix Ars Electronica 2015
No fewer than 2,703 entries from 77 countries were submitted for prize consideration to the 2014 Prix Ars Electronica. This year’s competition will honor excellence in six categories. Here, Ars Electronica’s Emiko Ogawa gives us a brief overview of the composition of the juries.
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Interactive Art: In Search of Something New
Irini Papadimitriou and Michel van Dartel, two jurymemebers of the Prix Ars Electronica 2014, were in search of something new and exciting in the category Interactive Art. They told us in an interview how these search proceeded.
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The Day of Decisions
The selection process to determine the 2014 recipients of a Prix Ars Electronica, one of the world’s most important media art prizes, has been concluded. 25 international experts put in three days of intensive work to choose the winners.
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Please do not disturb, voting in process
This year’s recipients of the Prix Ars Electronica will be selected this weekend. The juries’ three days of deliberations begin today at the Ars Electronica Center Linz, where the many entries will be viewed and assessed by the jurors.
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Prix Ars Electronica 2012, Pre-Jury “Digital Communities”
Symbolic picture The prejury for Prix Ars Electronica 2012 scans through hundreds of submission, here you can see the jury of the category “Digital Communities” (symbolic), consisting of Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber, Peter Kuthan and Romana Leopoldseder.
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u19 Jurymeeting
Sirikit Amann has been a part of u19 ever since its inception in 1998. She’s been working in the field of cultural education especially in conjunction with new media on the national and international level since the ‘80s, and has been a curator on behalf of Ars Electronica since 2006. Her projects include “Young Animations,”…
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Prix-Jury 2012, Martin Supper
New technology shall create something new! Pierre Boulez 2010: “It’s like architecture: In that moment, when you not only work with wood, stone and concret, but with steel, glas and other materials, you have many more possibilities.” While judging 640 (Music) submission for the ICMC2000 (International Computer Music Conference) I didn’t listen to a lot…
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Prix-Jury 2012, Mariela Yeregui
In the last 10 years we have been committed to creating a space dedicated to the reflection and creation in the intersection of art, science and technology at the National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina). It has been a great challenge as the domain appeared limitless, allowing an immense possibility for research. Consequently, a…
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Prix-Jury 2012, Michael Doser
What’s a scientist doing, mingling with the artists, and trying to blend in with a group that some consider at the antipodes to his own tribe? An opposition characterized by rationality vs. instinct, by thought vs. emotion? Not so fast… C.P. Snow had it wrong at a fundamental level: the two cultures permeate each other;…
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Prix-Jury 2012, Leila Nachawati
The Jury for Prix 2012, Round 2: This time it’s Leila Nachawati talking, she’ll look for interesting projects in the category “Digital Communities”.
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The Prix-Jury 2012 introduced, Liu Yan
From April 20th to 22nd 2012, the jury of Prix Ars Electronica 2012 will meet in Linz to decide on the winners of the Golden Nicas 2012. The weekend will be interesting, fascinating, but also tiring. Hundreds of projects want to be evaluated and rated, a daunting task. To give you a look behind the…