Prix Ars Electronica
Photo: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair
New Animation Art
Win the Prix Ars Electronica’s Golden Nica, up to 10,000 euros and a prominent appearance at the Ars Electronica Festival with your animation!
Projects in this category can be submitted for the 2025 Prix Ars Electronica from January 7, 2025, until March 5, 2025.
This category focuses on works that explore and experiment with visual expression at the intersection of animation, art and technology.
Right now we are undergoing a paradigmatic shift in how we understand and create images. It is not only AI and machine learning pushing the boundaries of our visual cultures, but also new methods and instruments of scientific visualization like the James Webb Space Telescope, or advances and trends in real-time graphics (VR, MR, Metaverse, games, etc.).
New forms of communication play an important role as well: Whether it is a social media platform like TikTok, or investigative journalism like Forensic Architecture, to name just two examples.
This category recognizes and honors the contributions by artists from all over world for their new ways of artistic expression and creative prototyping, their socio-political awareness and their impact on our lives.
Golden Nica 2024: Smoke and Mirrors / Beatie Wolfe
Golden Nica 2023: Delivery Dancer’s Sphere / Ayoung Kim
Golden Nica 2022: Being / Rashaad Newsome
Golden Nica 2021: When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest / Guangli Liu
Golden Nica 2020: Infinitely Yours / Miwa Matreyek, Photo: Keida Mascaro
Golden Nica 2019: ManicVR / Kalina Bertin, Sandra Rodriguez, Nicolas S. Roy, Fred Casia
Golden Nica 2018: TROPICS / Mathilde Lavenne
Golden Nica 2017: Everything / David OReilly
Golden Nica 2016: Rhizome / Boris Labbé
What can you win?
| 1 | Golden Nica | Statuette, 10.000 Euro prize money, Award certificate, prominent appearance at the Ars Electronica Festival |
| 2 | Awards of Distinctions | Award certificate, prominent appearance at the Ars Electronica Festival |
| up to 12 | Honorary Mentions | Award certificate |
What should you enter?
Any work out of the expanded field of animation art and the myriad connections to other disciplines, like…
artistic computer animation
AI-generated images
generative art
scientific visualizations
data journalism and animated documentary
data visualizations
audio-visual experiments
music visualization
advanced real-time CG
VR, AR, MR, XR
3D Scanning
hybrids between animation and game
expanded animation
site specific installations
projection mapping
media facades
theater projects
performance projects
projects using NFT, Metaverse, Social Media
reactive and interactive visuals etc.
Who can submit an entry?
- It is a prerequisite that the projects have already been realized to the extent that they may be judged on the basis of a documentation.
- The work entered must have been created, realized or significantly updated within the last two years.
- Participants may be individuals, groups, institutions, companies etc.
Checklist
The following materials are needed for the submission. Submissions must be made by the artist(s) predominantly responsible for the work. Please note, that the Jury’s decision will be primarily based on the video documentation.
- The work or video documentation (approx. 3 min. recommended) via upload
- Images of the work (JPG, TIF, BMP, PNG (at maximum quality. Compressed file (like .zip .lzh file) is not acceptable.)
- Detailed description of the artistic concept, form of interaction and technical realization
- A portrait photo and biography of the artist(s)
- Optional: additional material (images/documents(PDF)/drawings(JPG, PDF))
Jury
All entries will be judged by a Jury of experts in the order of their arrival. In addition to the works entered by participants, each jury may also nominate other works.