Festival Data:

• Established: 1987
• Genre: Experimental - New Media (click to see)
• Attendance: 31500
• Media Attendance: 533
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 530
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 3374

• Competitive
• Has Panels

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica, an International Competition for CyberArts, has focused on creative work at the interface of art, technology and society. The 21st edition of the Prix Ars Electronica featured some notable innovations. A separate category for hybrid art, a new prize for media art research and the merger of Net Vision into Digital Communities are the most visible signs of the intensive
work that has gone into the definition of the competition’s categories.

The aim: to keep the Prix in sync with current developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts. The impressive response: 3,374 entries from 63 countries. Eight juries composed of internationally renowned experts convened to select the winners of six Golden Nicas, 14 Awards of Distinction and 74 Honorary Mentions, as well as the recipients of [the next idea] Art and Technology Grant and the Media.Art.Research Award. These honors along with prize money totaling 122,500 euros will be presented to the winners  at the Ars Electronica Gala.

The festival program consists of categories such as: Computer Animation / Film / VFX; Digital Musics; Interactive Art; Hybrid Art; Digital Communities; u19 - freestyle computing and many more that change annually.  New media, digital media, interactive arts and film forums abound throughout the festival run, where the exchange of ideas, theories and approaches flows between participants and professionals.

Prix Ars is more than just a festival. Once a year, every year since 1979, all of Linz becomes a stage for media installations, video projections and sound sculptures. From the Brucknerhaus to the Lentos, from the O.K Center for Contemporary Art to the University of Art and Design Linz, and from the Ars Electronica Center to Donaupark, events, concerts and performances invite festivalgoers to encounter world-class media art.

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.aec.at/ prix_entry_en.php