Prix Ars Electronica 2007 - Call for Entries

The 21st Prix Ars Electronica 2007 - International Competition for
Cyberarts has a few new features.

The new Hybrid Art category, a new prize for Media.Art.Research, and
the integration of Net Vision into Digital Communities are the most
visible signs of the intensive work that is being done on the
definition of the competition’s categories. As always, the aim is to
continually keep the Prix Ars Electronica updated in line with
leading-edge developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts.

Prix Ars Electronica 2007
Online Submission Deadline: March 9, 2007

Computeranimation / Film / VFX, Digital Musics, Interactive Art,
Hybrid Art,
Digital Communities, u19 - freestyle competition, [the next idea] grant,
Media.Art.Research Award

All details about the categories and the online submission
are available online only at:

Total prize money: 122.500 Euro

DIGITAL COMMUNITIES
The 'Digital Communities' category will honor important
achievements by digital communities well as innovative artistic
approaches towards web-based communities. This category focuses
attention on the wide-ranging social and artistic impact of the
Internet as well as on the latest developments in the fields of
social software, ubiquitous computing, mobile communications
andwireless networks. Special attention goes to community-related
'net.art'. 'Digital Communities' spotlights bold and
inspired innovations impacting human coexistence, bridging the
geographical as well as gender-based digital divide and cultural
conflicts, sustaining cultural diversity and the freedom of artistic
expression or creating outstanding social software and enhancing
accessibility of technological-social infrastructure. This category
showcases the political and artistic potential of digital and
networked systems and is thus designed as a forum for the
consideration of a broad spectrum of projects, programs, artworks,
initiatives and phenomena in which social and artistic innovation is
taking place, as it were, in real time. A Golden Nica, two Awards of
Distinction and up to 12 Honorary Mentions will be awarded in the
Digital Communities category in 2007.

MEDIA.ART.RESEARCH Award
Ars Electronica and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research
(media.lbg.ac.at) are pleased to announce the establishment of a
prize for outstanding theoretical work on the subject of media art to
be awarded in conjunction with the Prix Ars Electronica. The Prix Ars
Electronica Media.Art.Research Award includes a Euro 5,000 cash
stipend. The 2007 theme is 'Net-based Artforms.' Of
particular interest this year are theoretical analyses of the medial
configuration and history of artistic interventions in electronic
networks, elaborations on the social aspects of artistic encounters
in and with the Internet, as well as discussions of research being
done by scholars of art history on these media art genres.

Please feel free to forward this to all interesting/ed parties.

best regards
Iris

Contact: Iris Mayr
Project Manager Prix Ars Electronica

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