For the first time, this year, Ars Electronica Festival 2024 will reward the best exhibited project within the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition with the Ars Electronica Campus Award. This occasion highlights emerging talents and the educational institutions that support them, providing a platform to recognize and celebrate excellence in media arts and design.
The jury comprises Kamya Ramachandran (IN), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP) and Marjan Colletti (IT). The Award Ceremony will take place on Saturday the 7th, followed by a networking event with Campus participants.
The 2024 Winners
Grand Prize
- ACV (Algorithmic Cultural Vandalism) / Technical University Berlin, Pietro Lugaro (IT), Alessandro Mac-Nelly (DE)
Honorary Mentions
- Functionless / School of Visual Arts (US), Wenyi Zhang (CN), Andres Salazar (CO/US)
- (Very) Neural System / University of Arts Linz (AT), Martina Pizzigoni (IT)
- Godseed / EKA-Estonian Academy of Arts (EE), Carol Alice Tõniste (EE), Helena Väinmaa (EE), Ottavio Cambieri (IT), Rainer Pits (EE), Sander Põldsaar (EE), Tanel K (EE), Valerie V Sarle (FI), Lilli-Krõõt Repnau (EE)
- There always will have been worlds / Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts Berlin (DE), Friedel Hänsel (DE), Leonie Kopineck (DE), Vero Roza Risnovska (SK)
- Weird creatures / New York University Shanghai (US), Siwei Chen (CN), Haoran Wang (CN), Rebecca Xiong (CN), Nuo Xu (CN), Jiapei Yao (CN), Xinyu “Torico” Chen (CN), Wes Firestone (US), Michelle Hua (CN), Jinhe “Anny” Jiang (CN), Zoe Kalamaros (US), Cindy Liu (CN), August Wang (US), Jinyuan (Jack) Xu (CN), Neo Alabastro (US)
Bios
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Kamya Ramachandran
IN
Kamya Ramachandran is the Founder-Director of BeFantastic, an innovative collaboration platform that pioneered Bangalore’s TechArt Festival series, most recently titled FutureFantastic. Kamya orchestrates pioneering experiments in transdisciplinary pedagogy focusing on digital culture. As a trained architect, researcher and design educator, with a career spanning geographies of UK, USA, India and Singapore, she convenes diverse collaborative communities through creative practice.
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Photo: Marjan CollettiMarjan Colletti
IT
Dr Marjan Colletti is an architectural designer, researcher, educator and innovator. He is the Chair Professor of Architecture and Postdigital Practice (first worldwide) and of Building Design and Construction at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Colletti’s academic achievements include chairing the Department of Experimental Architecture at Innsbruck University and founding its robotic experimentation lab REX|LAB. His accomplishments also include co-directing the MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2), directing computing, and directing design-research at The Bartlett School of UCL London (UK), apart from guest and visiting professorships at UCLA and UTA (USA), Vienna Technical University and institutions in China.
Colletti has exhibited over 100 times at international venues such as Royal Academy of Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Flower Show Chelsea, and at several editions of the Venice Biennale and the Ars Electronica Festival. His work features in the permanent collection of the FRAC Museum in Orléans and in private collections in Italy, Germany and the UK. He publishes and lectures regularly on design research and research-led education, and acts as scientific reviewer for major funding bodies across the world.
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Photo: Yasuaki KakehiYasuaki Kakehi
JP
Yasuaki Kakehi is an interactive media researcher and artist. After experiences at Keio University and MIT, he has been engaged in research, creation and education at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, since 2018.
With a PhD in Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Kakehi develops interactive media that combine physical materials and phenomena with digital technology, expanding experiences through objects, the body and space. His work spans the fields of engineering, art and design, with exhibitions at SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Festival, YCAM, and ICC, among others.
He has received numerous awards across various fields, including an Honorable Mention at the STARTS PRIZE 2022, the Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival, the Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2017, and the Young Scientist Award by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology in 2014.