The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of

electronic Electronic may refer to: *Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductors * ''Electronics'' (magazine), a defunct American trade journal *Electronic storage, the storage of data using an electronic device *Electronic c ...

and

interactive art Interactive art is a form of art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. Some interactive art installations achieve this by letting the observer walk through, over or around them; others ask the artist ...

computer animation Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating Film, moving images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both still images and moving images, while computer animation refers to moving images. Virtu ...

, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by

Ars Electronica Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979. It is based at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which houses the Museum of the Future, in t ...

(

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Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

). In 2005, the Golden Nica, the highest prize, was awarded in six categories: "Computer Animation/Visual Effects," "Digital Musics," "Interactive Art," "Net Vision," "Digital Communities" and the "u19" award for "freestyle computing." Each Golden Nica came with a prize of

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10,000, apart from the u19 category, where the prize was

5,000. In each category, there are also Awards of Distinction and Honorary Mentions. The Golden Nica trophy is a replica of the Greek

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. It is a handmade gold-plated wooden statuette that is approximately 35 cm high with a wingspan of about 20 cm. "Prix Ars Electronica" is a phrase composed of French, Latin and Spanish words, loosely translated as "Electronic Arts Prize."

Golden Nica winners

Computer animation / film / vfx

The "Computer Graphics" category (1987–1994) was open to different kinds of computer images. The "Computer Animation" (1987–1997) was replaced by the current "Computer Animation/Visual Effects" category in 1998.

Computer Graphics

*1987 – ''Figur10'' by Brian Reffin Smith, UK *1988 – ''The Battle'' by David Sherwin, US *1989 – ''Gramophone'' by

Tamás Waliczky Tamás Waliczky (born in 1959, in Budapest) is a Hungarian artist and animator, known for his new media art. Biography Tamás Waliczky started out by creating cartoon films (1968–1983), whilst working as a painter, illustrator and photograph ...

, HU *1990 – ''P-411-A'' by

Manfred Mohr Manfred Mohr (born June 8, 1938 in Pforzheim/Germany) is a German artist considered to be a pioneer in the field of digital art. He has lived and worked in New York since 1981. Life and career Mohr started his career as an action painting, acti ...

, Germany *1991 – ''Having encountered Eve for the second time, Adam begins to speak'' by Bill Woodard, US *1992 – ''RD Texture Buttons'' by

Michael Kass Michael Kass is an American computer scientist best known for his work in computer graphics and computer vision. He has won an Academy Award and the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award and is an ACM Fellow. Kass, David Baraff and Andr ...

and

Andrew Witkin Andrew Paul Witkin (July 22, 1952 – September 12, 2010) was an American computer scientist who made major contributions in computer vision and computer graphics. Education Witkin studied psychology at Columbia College, Columbia University, for ...

, US *1993 – ''Founders Series'' by

Michael Tolson Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * he He ..., a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name * Michael (bishop elect)">Michael (surname)">he He ..., a given nam ...

, US *1994 – ''Jellylife / Jellycycle / Jelly Locomotion'' by Michael Joaquin Grey, US

Computer Animation

*1987 – ''

Luxo Jr. ''Luxo Jr.'' is a 1986 American animated short film produced and released by Pixar. Written and directed by John Lasseter, the two-minute short film revolves around one larger and one smaller desk lamp. The larger lamp, named Luxo Sr., looks ...

'' by

John Lasseter John Alan Lasseter ( ; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, a ...

, US *1988 – ''

Red's Dream ''Red's Dream'' is a 1987 American animated short film written and directed by John Lasseter and produced by Pixar. The short film, which runs four minutes, stars Red, a unicycle. Propped up in the corner of a bicycle store on a rainy night, Re ...

'' by

, US *1989 – B''roken Heart'' by Joan Staveley, US *1990 – ''Footprint'' by Mario Sasso and Nicola Sani, IT *1991 – ''Panspermia'' by

Karl Sims Karl Sims (born 1962) is a computer graphics artist and researcher, who is best known for using particle systems and artificial life in computer animation. Biography Sims received a B.S. in Life Sciences from MIT in 1984, and a M.S. in computer g ...

, US *1992 – ''Liquid Selves / Primordial Dance'' by

, US *1993 – ''Lakmé'' by Pascal Roulin, BE *1994 – ''

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'' by

Dennis Muren Dennis Muren, A.S.C (born November 1, 1946) is an American film visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked on the films of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and James Cameron, among others, and has won nine Oscars in total: eight for Bes ...

Mark Dippé Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currenc ...

and Steve Williams, US/CA **Distinction: ''Quarxs'' by

Maurice Benayoun Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957) is a French new-media artist, curator, and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media, including video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, the ...

, FR **Distinction: ''K.O. Kid'' by

Marc Caro Marc Caro (born 2 April 1956) is a French filmmaker and comics artist, best known for his projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Biography Marc Caro was born in Nantes, the native town of Jules Verne, who made a great impact on him, influenced his ...

, FR *1995 – ''God's Little Monkey'' by

David Atherton David Atherton (born 3 January 1944) is an English conductor and founder of the London Sinfonietta. Background Atherton was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, into a musical family. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School. His father, Rober ...

and

Bob Sabiston Bob Sabiston (born 1967) is an American film art director, computer programmer, and creator of the Rotoshop software program for computer animation. Sabiston began developing software as an undergraduate and then graduate researcher in the MIT Me ...

, US *1996 – ''

Toy Story ''Toy Story'' is a 1995 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is the first installment in the Toy Story (franchise), ''Toy Story'' franchise and the Firsts in animation, firs ...

'' by

Lee Unkrich Lee Edward Unkrich (born August 8, 1967) is an American film director, editor and writer. He is best known for his work with animation studio Pixar, which he joined in 1994 as an editor before being credited as a co-director on ''Toy Story 2'' ...

and Ralph Eggleston, US *1997 – ''Dragonheart'' by

Scott Squires Scott Squires (born November 7, 1956) is an American visual effects supervisor and director. His first film project was ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'', where he developed the Cloud Tank Effect. In 1979 Squires, Hoyt Yeatman, Rocco Gioffr ...

, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), US

Computer Animation/Visual Effects

*1998 – ''The Sitter'' by Liang-Yuan Wang, TW **''

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'' by

Robert Legato Robert Legato (born 1956) is an American visual effects supervisor, second unit director, and second unit director of photography. Raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Legato graduated from Ocean Township High School.Staff. "Shore's Robert Legato i ...

and

Digital Domain Digital Domain (also known as Digital Domain Media Group or DDMG) is an American visual effects, computer animation and digital production company headquartered in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California. Digital Domain has produced visual effects ...

, US *1999 – ''

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'' by

Chris Wedge John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film ''Tron'' (1982), co-founding the now defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios ...

, US **'' What Dreams May Come'' by Mass Illusions, POP,

, Vincent Ward, Stephen Simon and Barnet Bain, US *2000 – ''Maly Milos'' by Jakub Pistecky, CA **''Maaz'' by

Christian Volckman Christian Volckman (b. 1971) is a French film director, author, and painter. He is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris. Career He is mainly known for his motion capture animation feature film ''Renaissance'', a 2006 dyst ...

, FR *2001 – ''Le Processus'' by Xavier de l’Hermuzičre and Philippe Grammaticopoulos, FR *2002 – ''

Monsters, Inc. ''Monsters, Inc.'' (also known as ''Monsters, Incorporated'') is a 2001 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Featuring the voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, James Cobu ...

'' by

Andrew Stanton Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker. He is best known as the director and co-writer of the Pixar animated films ''Finding Nemo'' (2003), ''WALL-E'' (2008), ''Finding Dory'' (2016), and the upcoming ''Toy Story 5 ...

Pete Docter Peter Hans Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American filmmaker and animator, who has served as chief creative officer (CCO) of Pixar since 2018. He has directed the company's animated films ''Monsters, Inc.'' (2001), ''Up (2009 film), Up'' ( ...

and David Silverman, US *2003 – ''Tim Tom'' by Romain Segaud and Cristel Pougeoise, FR *2004 – '' Ryan'' by

Chris Landreth Chris Landreth (born August 4, 1961) is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film '' Ryan''. He has made many animated films since the mid-1990s, including ''The End'', '' Bingo'', ''The Listener'', ''Caustic ...

, US. **Distinction: '' Parenthèse'' from Francois Blondeau, Thibault Deloof, Jérémie Droulers, Christophe Stampe, France **Distinction: '' Birthday Boy'' from Sejong Park, Australia *2005 – '' Fallen Art'' by Tomek Baginski, Poland. **Distinction: ''

The Incredibles ''The Incredibles'' is a 2004 American animated superhero film written and directed by Brad Bird. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Spencer ...

'' from

Pixar Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney ...

**Distinction: ''City Paradise'' by Gaëlle Denis (UK), Passion Pictures (FR) *2006 – '' 458nm'' by

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Ilija Brunck Ilija may refer to: * Ilija, Iran, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran * Ilija, Slovakia, a village and municipality in the Banská Štiavnica District, in the Banská Bystrica Region * Ilija (given name), South Slavic given name People with the su ...

, Tom Weber, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany. **Distinction: ''Kein platz Für Gerold'' by Daniel Nocke / Studio Film Bilder, Germany **Distinction: ''Negadon, the monster from Mars'', by Jun Awazu, Japan *2007 – ''Codehunters'' by

Ben Hibon Ben Hibon is a Swiss animation director. Hibon was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where he completed studies in Fine Art. He moved to London in 1996 to study Graphic Design at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, followed by a master ...

, (UK) *2008 – '' Madame Tutli-Putli'' by Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski. (Directors), Jason Walker (Special Visual Effects),

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; ) is a Canadian public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and altern ...

*2009 – '' HA'Aki'' by Iriz Pääbo,

*2010 – ''Nuit Blanche'' by Arev Manoukian (Director), Marc-André Gray (Visual Effects Artist),

*2011 – ''Metachaos'' by Alessandro Bavari (IT) *2012 – ''Rear Window Loop'' by Jeff Desom (LU) **Distinction: ''

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'' by Evan Viera/Orchid Animation (US) **Distinction: ''

Rise of the Planet of the Apes ''Rise of the Planet of the Apes'' is a 2011 American science fiction action film directed by Rupert Wyatt from a screenplay by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It is a reboot of the ''Planet of the Apes'' film series and is the seventh install ...

'' by Weta Digital (NZ)/

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*2013 – ''Forms'' by Quayola (IT), Memo Akten (TR) **Distinction: ''Duku Spacemarines'' by La Mécanique du Plastique (FR) **Distinction: ''Oh Willy…'' by Emma De Swaef (BE), Marc James Roels (BE) / Beast Animation *2014 – ''Walking City'' by Universal Everything (UK) *2015 – ''Temps Mort'' by Alex Verhaest (BE)
**Distinction: ''Bär'' by Pascal Floerks (DE) **Distinction: ''The Reflection of Power'' by Mihai Grecu (RO/HU)

Digital Music

This category is for those making

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

and

sound art Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary Time-based media, time-based Artistic medium, medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in Cross-genr ...

through digital means. From 1987 to 1998 the category was known as "

Computer music Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs. It includes the theory and ...

." Two Golden Nicas were awarded in 1987, and none in 1990. There was no Computer Music category in 1991. *1987 –

Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career wit ...

and

Jean-Claude Risset Jean-Claude Raoul Olivier Risset (; 13 March 1938 – 21 November 2016) was a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He was a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell L ...

*1988 –

Denis Smalley Denis Arthur Smalley (born 1946 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a composer of electroacoustic music, with a special interest in acousmatic music. Biography Denis Smalley studied at the University of Canterbury and Victoria University in his native New ...

*1989 –

Kaija Saariaho Kaija Anneli Saariaho (; ; 14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the En ...

*1990 – None *1991 – Category omitted *1992 –

Alejandro Viñao Raul Alejandro Viñao (born 4 September 1951) is an Argentine composer based in London. Early life Viñao studied musical composition in Buenos Aires with the composer Jacobo Ficher. In 1976 he was awarded a British Council scholarship to study ...

*1993 – Bernard Parmegiani *1994 –

Ludger Brümmer Ludger (; also Lüdiger or Liudger) ( – 26 March 809) was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and the first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia. He has been called the "Apostle of Saxony". Early life to ordinati ...

*1995 –

Trevor Wishart Trevor Wishart (born 11 October 1946) is an English composer, based in York. Wishart has contributed to composing with digital audio media, both fixed and interactive. He has also written extensively on the topic of what he terms " sonic art", a ...

*1996 –

Robert Normandeau Robert Normandeau (born March 11, 1955) is a Canadians, Canadian electroacoustic music composer. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Normandeau studied at the Université Laval in Quebec City, and at the Université de Montréal, where he studied with ...

*1997 – Matt Heckert *1998 – Peter Bosch and

Simone Simons Simone Johanna Maria Simons (born 17 January 1985) is a Dutch singer. She is best known for being the lead singer of Dutch symphonic metal band Epica, which she joined at the age of seventeen, releasing nine studio albums and touring the world ...

(joint award) *1999 – '' Come to Daddy'' by

Aphex Twin Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, composer and DJ active in electronic music since 1988. His idiosyncratic work has drawn on many styles, including techno, ambient music, ambi ...

(Richard D. James) and

Chris Cunningham Chris Cunningham (born 15 October 1970) is an English video artist and music video director who directed music videos for electronic musicians such as Autechre, Squarepusher, and Aphex Twin and Björk. Early in his career he worked as a com ...

(joint award) ** Distinction: ''Birthdays'' by Ikue Mori (JP) ** Distinction:

Mego (label) Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The label has been superseded by a new company, Editions Mego, which was set up both to keep Mego albums in print and to issue new albums, run by Peter ...

, ''Hotel Paral.lel'' by

Christian Fennesz Christian Fennesz (born 25 December 1962) is an Austrian producer and guitarist active in electronic music since the 1990s, often credited mononymously as Fennesz. His work utilizes guitar and laptop computers to blend melody with treated samp ...

, ''Seven Tons For Free'' by

Peter Rehberg Peter Rehberg (29 June 1968 – 22 July 2021), also known as Pita, was a British-Austrian composer of electronic audio works. He was the head of Editions Mego, which he founded in 2006 as a successor to Mego. Early life Rehberg was born in To ...

(a.k.a. Pita) *2000 – ''20' to 2000'' by

Carsten Nicolai Carsten Nicolai (born 18 September 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz) is a German artist, musician and label owner. As a musician he is known under the pseudonym Alva Noto. Life and career Carsten Nicolai was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Ch ...

**Distinction: ''

Minidisc MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, or 80 minutes of digitized audio. Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of that year for sale i ...

'' by

Gescom Gescom is an electronic music project based in the UK with close ties to the electronic duo Autechre. Stylistically, the music of Gescom is closer to electronic dance music, acid techno, and industrial music than Autechre's, with the exceptio ...

**Distinction: ''Outside the Circle of Fire'' by

Chris Watson John Christian Watson (born Johan Cristian Tanck; 9 April 186718 November 1941) was an Australian politician who served as the third prime minister of Australia from April to August 1904. He held office as the inaugural federal leader of the Au ...

*2001 – ''Matrix'' by

Ryoji Ikeda Ryoji Ikeda (池田亮司 ''Ikeda Ryōji'', born 1966) is a Japanese Visual arts, visual and sound artist who currently lives and works in Paris, France. Ikeda's music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of "raw" states, such as sine ...

*2002 – ''Man'yo Wounded 2001'' by

Yasunao Tone was a Japanese multidisciplinary artist born in Tokyo, Japan and working in New York City. He graduated from Chiba University in 1957 with a major in Japanese Literature. An important figure in postwar Japanese art during the 1960s, he was active ...

*2003 – Ami Yoshida,

Sachiko M Sachiko Matsubara (Japanese: 松原幸子; born 1973), better known by her stage name Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician. Her first solo album, ''Sine Wave Solo'', was released in 1999. Working in collaboration with Ami Yoshida under the name Cosm ...

and

Utah Kawasaki Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the ...

(joint award) *2004 – ''Banlieue du Vide'' by

Thomas Köner Thomas Köner (born 1965 in Bochum, West Germany) is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. The BBC, in a review of Köner's work in 1997, calls him a "media artist," one who works between insta ...

*2005 – ''TEO! A Sonic Sculpture'' by

Maryanne Amacher Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938 – October 22, 2009) was an American composer and installation artist. She is known for working extensively with a family of psychoacoustic phenomena called auditory distortion products (also known as dist ...

*2006 – ''L'île ré-sonante'' by

Éliane Radigue Éliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) is a French composer. She began working in the 1950s and her first compositions were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created with the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer and ...

*2007 – ''Reverse-Simulation Music'' by Mashiro Miwa *2008 –

Reactable The Reactable is an electronic musical instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface that was developed within the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain by Sergi Jordà, Marcos Alonso, Martin Kalten ...

by Sergi Jordà (ES), Martin Kaltenbrunner (AT), Günter Geiger (AT) and Marcos Alonso (ES) *2009 – ''Speeds of Time versions 1 and 2'' by Bill Fontana (US) *2010 – ''rheo: 5 horizons'' b
Ryoichi Kurokawa
(JP) *2011 – ''Energy Field'' by Jana Winderen (NO) *2012 – "Crystal Sounds of a Synchrotron" by Jo Thomas (GB) *2013 – ''frequencies (a)'' by Nicolas Bernier (CA) ** Distinction: ''SjQ++'' by SjQ++ (JP) ** Distinction: ''Borderlands Granular'' by Chris Carlson (US) *2015 – ''Chijikinkutsu'' by Nelo Akamatsu (JP) ** Distinction: ''Drumming is an elastic concept'' by Josef Klammer (AT) ** Distinction: ''Under Way'' by Douglas Henderson (DE) *2017 – ''Not Your World Music: Noise In South East Asia'' by

Cedrik Fermont Cedrik Fermont (also known as C-drík Fermont or Kirdec) is a vegan artist, academically trained musician, DJ, singer, composer and drummer. He is a former student of electro-acoustic composer Annette Vande Gorne ( Royal Conservatory of Mons, Belg ...

(CD/BE/DE), Dimitri della Faille (BE/CA) ** Distinction: ''Gamelan Wizard'' by Lucas Abela (AU), Wukir Suryadi (ID) und Rully Shabara (ID) ** Distinction: ''Corpus Nil'' by

Marco Donnarumma Marco Donnarumma (born 1984 in Naples) is an Italian performance artist, sound artist, new media artist, inventor and theorist based in Berlin. His work addresses the relationship between body, politics and technology. He is widely known for his ...

(DE/IT)

Hybrid art

*2007 – ''

Symbiotica SymbioticA is an artistic research lab at the University of Western Australia's School of Anatomy and Human Biology."Culture: Art That Touches a Nerve." Anthony King. Nature 470, 334 (17 February 2011) doi:10.1038/470334a The lab looks at bio ...

'' *2008 – Pollstream – Nuage Vert by Helen Evans (FR/UK) and Heiko Hansen (FR/DE) HeHe *2009 – ''Natural History of the Enigma'' by

Eduardo Kac Eduardo Kac (born July 3, 1962) is a Brazilian and American contemporary artist whose portfolio encompasses various forms of art including performance art, poetry, holography, interactive art, digital and online art, and BioArt. Recognized for h ...

(US) *2010 – ''Ear on Arm'' by

Stelarc Stelarc (born Στέλιος Αρκαδίου ''Stelios Arcadiou'' in 1946; legally changed his name in 1972) is a Cyprus-born Australians, Australian performance artist raised in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, Victoria, Sunshine, whose works ...

(AU) *2011 – ''May the Horse Live in me'' by

Art Orienté Objet Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

(FR) *2012 – ''Bacterial radio'' by

Joe Davis Joseph Davis (15 April 190110 July 1978) was an English professional snooker and English billiards player. He was the dominant figure in snooker from the 1920s to the 1950s, and has been credited with inventing aspects of the way the game is ...

(US) *2013 – ''Cosmopolitan Chicken Project'',

Koen Vanmechelen Koen Vanmechelen (born August 26, 1965 in Sint-Truiden) is a Belgian artist who began his career in the early 1990s. Central to his work is the concept of bio-cultural diversity, which he investigates through the domestic chicken and its ancestra ...

(BE) *2015 – ''Plantas Autofotosintéticas'', Gilberto Esparza (MX) *2017 – ''K-9_topology'',

Maja Smrekar Maja Smrekar (1978, Brežice, Brežice, Slovenia) is a Slovenian intermedia artist. In 2005 she graduated at the Department for Sculpture of Fine Art and Design Academy in Ljubljana. She also holds Master's degree in Video and New Media that she ...

(SI)

he next ideavoestalpine Art and Technology Grant

*2009 – ''Open_Sailing'' by Open_Sailing Crew led by

Cesar Harada Cesar or César may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''César'' (film), a 1936 French romantic drama * ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt Places * Cesar, Portugal * Cesar Department, Colombia * Cesar River, in Colombia * Cesar R ...

. *2010 – ''Hostage'' by rederik De Wilde *2011 – ''

Choke Point Project Choke may refer to: Entertainment Albums and songs * ''Choke'' (album), a 1990 album by the Beautiful South * "Choke" (I Dont Know How But They Found Me song), a 2017 song from the album ''1981 Extended Play'' * ''Choke'' (Kiss It Goodbye ...

'' by P2P Foundation (NL). *2012 – ''qaul.net – tools for the next revolution'' by Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud *2013 – ''Hyperform'' by Marcelo Coelho (BR), Skylar Tibbits (US), Natan Linder (IL), Yoav Reaches (IL) ** Honorary Mentions: ''GravityLight'' by Martin Riddiford (GB), Jim Reeves (GB) * 2014 – ''BlindMaps'' by Markus Schmeiduch, Andrew Spitz and Ruben van der Vleuten * 2015 – ''SOYA C(O)U(L)TURE'' by XXLab (ID) – Irene Agrivina Widyaningrum, Asa Rahmana, Ratna Djuwita, Eka Jayani Ayuningtias, Atinna Rizqiana

Interactive Art

Prizes in the category of

have been awarded since 1990. This category applies to many categories of works, including installations and performances, characterized by audience participation, virtual reality, multimedia and telecommunication. *1990 – ''Videoplace'' installation by Myron Krueger *1991 – ''Think About the People Now'' project by Paul Sermon *1992 – ''Home of the Brain'' installation by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss *1993 – ''Simulationsraum-Mosaik mobiler Datenklänge (smdk)'' installation by

Knowbotic Research Knowbotic Research is a German-Swiss electronic art group, established in 1991. Its members are Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Hübler and Alexander Tuchacek. They hold a professorship for Art and Media at the University of the Arts in Zürich. Histor ...

*1994 – ''A-Volve'' environment by

Christa Sommerer Christa may refer to: * Christa (given name), a female given name * Janusz Christa (1934–2008), Polish comics author * ''Swedish Fly Girls'', a 1971 film also known as ''Christa'' * 1015 Christa, an asteroid See also * Christ (disambiguation) * ...

and Laurent Mignonneau *1995 – the concept of

Hypertext Hypertext is E-text, text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access. Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typic ...

, attributed to

Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow a ...

*1996 – ''Global Interior Project'' installation by Masaki Fujihata *1997 – ''Music Plays Images X Images Play Music'' concert by

Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Music of Japan, Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the Synthesizer, synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his ...

and

Toshio Iwai is a Japanese interactive media and Installation art, installation artist who has also created a number of commercial video games. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design. ...

*1998 – ''World Skin, a Photo Safari in the Land of War'' installation by

Jean-Baptiste Barrière Jean-Baptiste Barrière (2 May 1707 – 6 June 1747) was a French people, French cello, cellist and composer. He was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris, at 40 years of age. Musical career Barrière first studied the viol, and published a set of vi ...

and

*1999 – ''Difference Engine #3'' by construct and Lynn Hershman *2000 – ''Vectorial Elevation, Relational Architecture #4'' installation by

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He creates platforms for public participation by using robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized survei ...

*2001 – ''polar'' installation by

and Marko Peljhan *2002 – ''n-cha(n)t'' installation by

David Rokeby David Rokeby (born 1960) is a Canadian artist who has been making works of electronic art, electronic, video art, video and installation art since 1982. He lives with his wife, acclaimed pianist Eve Egoyan, in Toronto, Canada. His early work ''V ...

*2003 – '' Can You See Me Now?'' participatory game by

Blast Theory Blast Theory is an artists' group that specializes in work that mixes interactive media, digital broadcasting and live performance. Biography The group was founded in 1991 by Matt Adams, Niki Jewett, Will Kittow and Ju Row Farr. The group is c ...

and Mixed Reality Lab *2004 – ''Listening Post'' installation by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen *2005 – ''MILKproject'' installation and project by

Esther Polak Esther Polak (born 1962) is a Dutch visual artist. She is active in the new media field and was one of the first artists to experiment with GPS. Since 2010, Polak has worked full-time with Ivar van Bekkum as an artist duo PolakVanBekkum. She lives ...

, Ieva Auzina and RIXC – Riga Centre for New Media Culture *2006 – ''The Messenger'' installation by Paul DeMarinis *2007 – ''Park View Hotel'' installation by

Ashok Sukumaran Ashok Sukumaran is a Japanese-born Indian contemporary artist. Biography Sukumaran was born to a Japanese mother and an Indian Assamese father in Sapporo, Japan in 1974. Sukumaran grew up in Shimla and did his schooling from St. Edward's Scho ...

*2008 – ''Image Fulgurator'' by Julius von Bismarck (

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

) *2009 – ''Nemo Observatorium'' by Laurence Malstaf (

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

) *2010 – ''The Eyewriter'' by

Zachary Lieberman Zachary Lieberman is an American new media artist, designer, computer programmer, and educator. Early life and education Born in 1977, Lieberman holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hunter College and both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Design and Technology ...

, Evan Roth, James Powderly,

Theo Watson Theo Watson is a British artist and programmer. His art work includes interactive video, large-scale public projections, computer vision projects, and interactive sound recordings which have featured in museums and galleries across the world i ...

, Chris Sugrue, Tempt1 *2011 – ''Newstweek'' by Julian Oliver (NZ) and Danja Vasiliev (RU) *2012 – ''Memopol-2'' by Timo Toots (EE) *2013 – ''Pendulum Choir'' By Michel Décosterd (CH), André Décosterd (CH) ** Distinction – ''Rain Room'' by rAndom International (GB) ** Distinction – ''Voices of Aliveness'' by Masaki Fujihata (JP) *2014 – ''Loophole for All'' by Paolo Cirio(IT) *2016 – ''Can you hear me?'' by Mathias Jud(DE), Christoph Wachter (CH)

Internet-related categories

In the categories "World Wide Web" (1995–96) and ".net" (1997–2000), interesting web-based projects were awarded, based on criteria like web-specificity, community-orientation, identity and

interactivity Across the many fields concerned with interactivity, including information science, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication, and industrial design, there is little agreement over the meaning of the term "interactivity", but ...

. In 2001, the category became broader under the new name "Net Vision / Net Excellence", with rewards for innovation in the online medium.

World Wide Web

*1995 – ''Idea Futures'' by

Robin Hanson Robin Dale Hanson (born August 28, 1959) is an American economist and author. He is associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a former research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Hanson is k ...

*1996 – ''Digital Hijack'' by

etoy Etoy is a European digital art group formed in 1994. It has won several international awards including the Prix Ars Electronica in 1996. Their main slogan is: "leaving reality behind." Etoy has routinely experimented with the boundaries of art, s ...

** Second prizes: ''HyGrid'' by SITO and ''Journey as an exile''

.net

*1997 – ''Sensorium'' by Taos Project *1998 – ''IO_Dencies Questioning Urbanity'' by

*1999 –

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds ( , ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git. He was honored, along with Shinya Yam ...

*2000 – '' In the Beginning... Was the Command Line'' (excerpts) by

Neal Stephenson Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work explores mathemati ...

Net Vision / Net Excellence

*2001 – ''Banja'' by

Team cHmAn A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to info ...

and "PrayStation" by Joshua Davis *2002 – ''Carnivore'' by Radical Software Group and "They Rule" by Josh On and Futurefarmers *2003 – ''

Habbo Hotel ''Habbo'', also called ''Habbo Hotel'', is a virtual world and massively multiplayer online game. It is owned and operated by Sulake. Founded in 2000, ''Habbo'' has expanded to nine online communities (or "hotels"), with users from more tha ...

'' and ''Noderunner'' by Yury Gitman and Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena *2004 – ''

Creative Commons Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has release ...

'' *2005 – ''Processing'' by

Benjamin Fry Benjamin Fry (born 1975) is an American designer who has expertise in data visualization. Early life and education Fry was born in 1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan."Inside design now: National Design Triennial", by Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museu ...

Casey Reas Casey Edwin Barker Reas (born 1972), also known as C. E. B. Reas or Casey Reas, is an American artist whose conceptual, procedural and minimal artworks explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. Reas is perhaps best known for having ...

and the Processing community *2006 – ''The Road Movie'' by exonemo

Digital Communities

A category begun in 2004 with support from SAP (and a separate ceremony in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

two months before the main Ars Electronica ceremony) to celebrate the 25th birthday of Ars Electronica. Two Golden Nicas were awarded. *2004 –

Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free content, free Online content, online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and La ...

and '' The World Starts With Me'' **Distinction: *** Open-Clothes *2005 – ''Akshaya'', an

information technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

development program in

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

**Distinction:

Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed ...

(USA) and

Telestreet Telestreet is an Italian movement that set up free TV stations in several metropolitan areas in Italy. The movement started in Bologna with a small transmitting station, OrfeoTv, which was founded by activist Franco "Bifo" Berardi. Since June 2002, ...

– NewGlobalVision (Italy) *2006 – canal*ACCESSIBLE **Distinction: *** Codecheck (Roman Bleichenbacher CH) *** Proyecto Cyberela – Radio Telecentros (CEMINA) **Honorary Mentions: ***

Arduino Arduino () is an Italian open-source hardware and open-source software, software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardwar ...

(Arduino) *** Charter97.org – News from Belarus *** CodeTree *** MetaReciclagem *** Mountain Forum *** Northfield.org *** Pambazuka News (Fahamu *** Semapedia *** stencilboard.at (Stefan Eibelwimmer (AT), Günther Kolar (AT)) *** The Freecycle Network *** The Organic City *** UgaBYTES Initiative (UgaBYTES Initiative (UG)) *2007 – Overmundo *2008 – 1 kg more **Distinction:

PatientsLikeMe PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform. The platform currently has over 830,000 members who are dealing with more than 2,900 conditions, such as ALS, MS, and epilepsy. Data generated by p ...

and

Global Voices Online Global Voices is an international community of writers, bloggers and digital activists that aim to translate and report on what is being said in citizen media worldwide. It is a non-profit project started at the Berkman Center for Internet and S ...

*2009 – HiperBarrio by Álvaro Ramírez and Gabriel Jaime Vanegas **Distinction: *** piratbyran.org *** wikileaks.org **Honorary Mentions: *** hackmeeting.org *** pad.ma ***

Maneno Maneno was a blogging application powered by PHP, Smarty, and MySQL with content management capabilities. Initially released in October, 2008, it focused on creating a multi-theme, multi-author, multi-lingual system that works in a hosted setti ...

*** femalepressure.net *** metamute.org *** ubu.com *** canchas.org *** feraltrade.org *** flossmanuals.net *** wikiartpedia.org *** changemakers.net *** vocesbolivianas.org * 2010 –

Chaos Computer Club The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of Hacker (computer security), hackers with 7,700 registered members. Founded in 1981, the association is incorporated as an ''eingetragener Verein'' in Germany, with local chapters ...

* 2011 – Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente ** Distinction: *** Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative (Transcribe Bentham) (UK). See also the project's Transcription Desk *** X_MSG * 2012 – Syrian people know their way * 2013 – ''El Campo de Cebada'' by El Campo de Cebada (ES) ** Distinction: ''Refugees United'' by Christopher Mikkelsen (DK), David Mikkelsen (DK) ** Distinction: ''Visualizing Palestine'' by Visualizing Palestine (PS) * 2014 – ''Project Fumbaro'' ''Eastern Japan'' by Takeo Saijo (JP)

References

External links

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ARS ELECTRONICA ARCHIVE - PRIX

Past winners

Past winners (in german, more detailed)

Prix Ars Electronica 1987–1990
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