Prix Ars Electronica

The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition. Winners are awarded the coveted Golden Nica statuette, prize money ranging up to € 10,000 per category and an opportunity to showcase their talents at the famed Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. In addition, there are two further prizes, the Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity, worth 10,000 euros and initiated by the Austrian Foreign Ministry, and the Education Award Klasse! Lernen. in cooperation with OeAD and BMBWF.

The submission for the Prix Ars Electronica 2022 is already closed. The award winners will be announced on June 20, 2022. The next Open Call will start in January 2023.

2022 Prix Ars Electronica

Juries

All juries since 1987

FAQ

What, when and how to submit?

Best of Prix Ars Electronica 2021

PRIX-Awards Ceremony 2021
Credit: tom mesic

Prix Forum
Credit: vog.photo

CyberArts Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival
The Transparency Of Randomness / Vera Tolazzi, Mathias Gartner, Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl

CyberArts Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival
PL’AI / Špela Petrič, Credit: vog.photo

Screening at the Ars Electronica Center / Deep Space 8K
OPERA / Erick Oh, Credit: vog.photo

PRIX-Awards Ceremony 2021
Credit: vog.photo

Online Press Conference
Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl

The Winners

Award Ceremony

of 2021 Prix Ars Electronica

Ars Electronica Festival

Prix Events 2021

2021 Winners

of Prix Ars Electronica

All Winners

since 1987

CyberArts 2021

Documentation of the Prix Ars Electronica 2021. Lavishly illustrated and containing texts by the prize-winning artists and statements by the juries that singled them out for recognition, this catalog showcases the works honored by the Prix Ars Electronica 2021.

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The Golden Nicas since 1987

Luxo Jr.

Figure 10

re-wire

Cloud Studies

Convergence

When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest

Samen

VALIE EXPORT

Prix & Collaborations

About

Prix Ars Electronica

Prix-Map

Winners by countries

Animation Festival on Tour

Host Screening

Home Delivery Services

Book Prix Inspirations

STARTS Prize

of the European Commission

Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity

Klasse! Lernen.

Isao Tomita Special Prize

Timetable

January 13, 2022	Submission phase for 2022 Prix Ars Electronica begins
March 14, 2022	Extended Submission deadline
April 28 – May 1, 2022	Jury Meeting
June 20, 2022	Announcement of the winners
September 7-11, 2022	Ars Electronica Festival

Ars Electronica Blog

The Prix-Jury-Weekend 2022

Once again, 20 experts from around the world met in Linz to agree on the Golden Nicas of the Prix Ars Electronica 2022

We award your digitalization projects!

Teachers and students can now submit for the "Klasse! Lernen." education award. Project manager Veronika Krenn explains how it works.

Throwback: Videoplace

In 1990 the time was ripe to take the next evolutionary step in the development of Prix Ars Electronica by adding a new category for "Interactive Art".

Prix Ars Electronica 2022: Here we go again!

The Prix Ars Electronica kicks off the New Year! For the 35th time in a row, the world's most traditional media art competition is entering the next round.

Throwback: Goddess on new paths

What does a Greek goddess of victory have in common with the Prix Ars Electronica? More than you might think!

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.

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.

Some people think Alexa and Siri only listen when they’re supposed to...

...others go to Ars Electronica. Public space/privacy - how do they intertwine and can we trust promises about privacy? This core theme is also represented in the form of festival projects.