Fwd: Prix Ars Electronica 2007 - Call for Entries

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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 &#39;Digital Communities&#39; 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  
&#39;net.art&#39;. &#39;Digital Communities&#39; 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 &#39;Net-based Artforms.&#39; 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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