One of the most reknown digital art price has annouced its results this morning. The seven winners of the Ars Electronica Price 2013, selected out of more than 4,000 submissions, have been awarded. Here are the artworks which make them bring back home their awards.
More details (but less videos) are available on Ars Electronica's website, as well as all the winners since 1987.
Golden Nicas
Digital Musics & Sound Art - Nicolas Bernier : frequencies
Computer Ani...
This call is open until April 2nd. It's part of Studiolab, a 3-year, Europe-wide initiative that merges the studio with the research lab funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme in 2011. Studiolab is a European network that provides a platform for creative projects that bridge divides between science, art and design.
Selected works will be exhibited in Yours Synthetically, in Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria (from july to october).
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The prestigious yearly Prix Ars Electronica 2013 will be open for applications from December 17th to March 8th. The Prix Ars Electronica 2013 awards presentation will take place during the Ars Electronica Festival 2013 in Linz.
A project can be submitted to 7 different categories :
Computer Animation/Film/VFX
Hybrid Art
Digital Communities
Interactive Art
Digital Musics and Sound Art
u19 - Create Your World
[the next idea]
In each category, three prices award differen...
© Rubra
You were one of the co-founders of Ars Electronica in 1979. What were your thoughts as you were conceiving this first festival dedicated to electronic arts?
We weren’t thinking 30 years ahead, but we thought the scene of art, technology and society -- the subtitle of Ars Electronica -- would consist of the future. This was from the very beginning. The name didn't change, and the subtitle didn't change. My boss, Hannes Leopoldseder, whom I think is the real founder...
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OUR SURREAL WORLD - DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ERUPTS INTO REALITY
In his lecture at the ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose, Bruce Sterling perfectly described our immersion in a digital environment.From 3D printing to augmented reality, we live amidst new esthetics without even taking the time to question them. Reality a...
Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is the new international competition for digital artists to win a residency at CERN the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. It is the first prize to be announced as part of the new Collide@CERN artists residency programme initiated by the laboratory.
This new prize marks a 3 year science/arts cultural partnership and creative collaboration between CERN and Ars Electronica – which began with CERN’s cooperation with ...
Director:
Peter William Holden.
mechanical kaleidoscope
Composite Plastic, Steel, Industrial Computer, Compressed Air Components
4.5m x 4.5m x 1.5m
In my recent work I have concerned myself not only with the sculpting of three dimensions but also with a fourth: the dimension of time. I have attempted to create work that falls somewhere between conventional notions of pictorial art and performance. “Arabesque” is the natural continuation of this exploration – a real time animation.
With its roots in Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” and the alchemist’s laboratory, the installation presents itself as a mechanical flower: a simulacrum of nature. Life sized human body parts, impaled upon steel, move and sway and dance. The limbs, translucent and livid, bare their internal robotic mechanisms to the gaze of the viewer. The wiring itself is an aesthetic expression deliberately integrated into the installation to bring chaotic lines of abstract form to contrast with the organized symmetry of the body parts.
The lifeblood of this organism is air and when activated this air flows invisibly, bestowing movement to these mechanisms and its presence is only betrayed when exhaled loudly from the valves attached to the serpentine air hose. This combined with the rattle of relays and the tandem clattering of pistons to produce a hyper-modern accompaniment to the music of Strauss.
Part cinema, part theatre, “Arabesque” can be viewed form a multitude of angles, revealing a kaleidoscope of beautiful shapes and patterns created from the human form.
Leaving tomorrow for Linz, Austria, for the Ars Electronica festival. This year’s theme, Origin – How It All Begins, is organized in cooperation with CERN, the Geneva based institution with more than 8,000 scientists exploring, among other research, the origin of our universe.
It is also a statement of Ars Electronica in favor of the importance of advanced basic research in our world highlighting efficiency and quick return on investment..
Always impressive to remembe...
Ars Electronica organized an Open Source Symposium during the festival ending by this conference: Repair Society (and yourself).
Moderated by Andreas Hirsch, the conference included Saskia Sassen on the digital training of the powerless ( with interesting parallels between2 opposite worlds: the finance industry and the powerless), Derrick de Kekhove on open source life and Jiochi Ito on the new meaning of life and the necessary changes among the world elites.
Sask...
As every year, a large public event is organized during the Ars Electronica festival along the Danube. This year's theme was BABY JET, the railroad of the future. The fantasized project, from artist Lawine Torren, is to create an underground, more than 1.000 km per hour, bullet train.
View from the Ars Electronica Center from the other side of the Danube among the BABY JET show crowd.
The crowd arriving along the river.
The...
Christine Schopf, co-director Ars Electronica, presents the history of the location of the festival, the Tabakfabrik, the festival theme "Repair" and the various aspects of the festival ranging from digital art, innovation to green focus, etc.
Due to her busy agenda and the need for light, we organized the interview at the ground floor of building 1 hosting the New Work Factory, not the most artistic sp ...
The Gala evening took place this year inside the Tabakfabrik where most of the Ars Electronica festival is taking place.
The gala evening was co-hosted by Christine Schopf co-director Ars Electronica and Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Artistic Director.
They were helped by Asimo.
All Golden Nicas where awareded to the winning teams. See detailed list of Golden Nicas awards and honorary mentions here.
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Honda's robot Asimo helped co-host the Ars Electrionica gala evening.
