[Reader-list] Fwd: Prix Ars Electronica 2007 - Call for Entries

[peter griffin]

This would be if interest to many on this list.

Good luck.

~peter

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From: communities at prixars.aec.at <communities at prixars.aec.at>
Date: 13-Jan-2007 00:46
Subject: Prix Ars Electronica 2007 - Call for Entries
To: 00000003 at bender.aec.at

Dear friends and participants of Prix Ars Electronica!

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: <http://prixars.aec.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 EUR 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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