The award ceremony is a chance to see all of this year’s award-winning works and winners together. The Golden Nica winners of the Prix Ars Electronica in four categories, the two Grand Prizes of the STARTS Prize, and two new prizes, the Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity and the Isao Tomita Special Prize winners, will take the stage both onsite and online. The award ceremony will be streamed on the Ars Electronica Channel.
Winners 2021
Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Golden Nica – Computer Animation
When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest / Guangli Liu (CN)
Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Golden Nica – Artificial Intelligence & Life Art
Cloud Studies / Forensic Architecture (INT)
Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Golden Nica – Digital Musics & Sound Art
Convergence / Alexander Schubert (DE)
Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Golden Nica – u19-create your world
re-wire / Felix Senk, Emil Steixner, Max-Jakob Beer, Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt
Isao Tomita Special Prize 2021
Apotome Khyam Allami (GB), Counterpoint (INT)
Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity
by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
Branch Magazine: A Sustainable and Just Internet for All / Climate Action Tech (EU/Global)
STARTS Prize ‘21 – Grand Prize—Artistic Exploration
Oceans in Transformation / Territorial Agency—John Palmesino (IT) and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (FI)
STARTS Prize ‘21 – Grand Prize—Innovative Collaboration
Remix el Barrio, Food Waste Biomaterial Makers / Anastasia Pistofidou, Marion Real and The Remixers at Fab Lab Barcelona, IaaC (ES)
