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

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

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(

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). 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 Nike of Samothrace. 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, 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 and Andrew Witkin, US *1993 – ''Founders Series'' by Michael Tolson, US *1994 – ''Jellylife / Jellycycle / Jelly Locomotion'' by Michael Joaquin Grey, US

Computer Animation

*1987 – '' Luxo Jr.'' by

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, US *1988 – ''

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'' by

, US *1989 – B''roken Heart'' by Joan Staveley, US *1990 – ''Footprint'' by Mario Sasso and Nicola Sani, IT *1991 – ''Panspermia'' by Karl Sims, US *1992 – ''Liquid Selves / Primordial Dance'' by Karl Sims, 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 and Steve Williams, US/CA **Distinction: ''Quarxs'' by Maurice Benayoun, 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 and Bob Sabiston, 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, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), US

Computer Animation/Visual Effects

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

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'' by Robert Legato and

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, US *1999 – '' Bunny'' 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, FR *2001 – ''Le Processus'' by Xavier de l’Hermuzičre and Philippe Grammaticopoulos, FR *2002 – '' Monsters, Inc.'' 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, 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: ''

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'' from

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**Distinction: ''City Paradise'' by Gaëlle Denis (UK), Passion Pictures (FR) *2006 – '' 458nm'' by Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, 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, (UK) *2008 – '' Madame Tutli-Putli'' by Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski. (Directors), Jason Walker (Special Visual Effects),

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*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: ''

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'' 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

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

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and Jean-Claude Risset *1988 – Denis Smalley *1989 – Kaija Saariaho *1990 – None *1991 – Category omitted *1992 – Alejandro Viñao *1993 – Bernard Parmegiani *1994 – Ludger Brümmer *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 *1997 – Matt Heckert *1998 – Peter Bosch and Simone Simons (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 (joint award) ** Distinction: ''Birthdays'' by Ikue Mori (JP) ** Distinction: Mego (label), ''Hotel Paral.lel'' by Christian Fennesz, ''Seven Tons For Free'' by Peter Rehberg (a.k.a. Pita) *2000 – ''20' to 2000'' by Carsten Nicolai **Distinction: ''

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

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*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 and Utah Kawasaki (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 *2006 – ''L'île ré-sonante'' by Éliane Radigue *2007 – ''Reverse-Simulation Music'' by Mashiro Miwa *2008 – Reactable 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 (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 (DE/IT)

Hybrid art

*2007 – '' Symbiotica'' *2008 – Pollstream – Nuage Vert by Helen Evans (FR/UK) and Heiko Hansen (FR/DE) HeHe *2009 – ''Natural History of the Enigma'' by

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(US) *2010 – ''Ear on Arm'' by Stelarc (AU) *2011 – ''May the Horse Live in me'' by Art Orienté Objet (FR) *2012 – ''Bacterial radio'' by

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(US) *2013 – ''Cosmopolitan Chicken Project'', Koen Vanmechelen (BE) *2015 – ''Plantas Autofotosintéticas'', Gilberto Esparza (MX) *2017 – ''K-9_topology'', Maja Smrekar (SI)

he next ideavoestalpine Art and Technology Grant

*2009 – ''Open_Sailing'' by Open_Sailing Crew led by Cesar Harada. *2010 – ''Hostage'' by rederik De Wilde *2011 – '' Choke Point Project'' 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 interactive art 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 *1994 – ''A-Volve'' environment by Christa Sommerer 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

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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 Maurice Benayoun *1999 – ''Difference Engine #3'' by construct and Lynn Hershman *2000 – ''Vectorial Elevation, Relational Architecture #4'' installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer *2001 – ''polar'' installation by Carsten Nicolai and Marko Peljhan *2002 – ''n-cha(n)t'' installation by David Rokeby *2003 – '' Can You See Me Now?'' participatory game by Blast Theory and Mixed Reality Lab *2004 – ''Listening Post'' installation by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen *2005 – ''MILKproject'' installation and project by Esther Polak, 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 *2008 – ''Image Fulgurator'' by Julius von Bismarck (

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

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) *2010 – ''The Eyewriter'' by Zachary Lieberman, Evan Roth, James Powderly, Theo Watson, 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 *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 Knowbotic Research *1999 –

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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

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Net Vision / Net Excellence

*2001 – ''Banja'' by Team cHmAn and "PrayStation" by Joshua Davis *2002 – ''Carnivore'' by Radical Software Group and "They Rule" by Josh On and Futurefarmers *2003 – ''

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

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'' *2005 – ''Processing'' by Benjamin Fry, Casey Reas 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

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

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

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development program in

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**Distinction:

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(USA) and Telestreet – 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 *** femalepressure.net *** metamute.org *** ubu.com *** canchas.org *** feraltrade.org *** flossmanuals.net *** wikiartpedia.org *** changemakers.net *** vocesbolivianas.org * 2010 –

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* 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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