Prix Ars Electronica 2002




The Prix Ars Electronica, staged by the Austrian Broadcasting Company’s Upper Austria Regional Studio, is the annual exhibition of the state-of-the-art of digital media art. Eighteen cash awards totaling 109,900 Euros will be handed out at a ceremony to be held September 9, 2002. This year’s Prix Ars Electronica prizes, endowed by Telekom Austria as lead sponsor, will be going to artists from the US, Japan, France, Sweden, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, India and Austria.

Exactly 1,373 artists from 80 countries submitted 2,356 works to this year’s 16th Prix Ars Electronica, the most internationally esteemed and longest established cyberarts competition. Taken as a whole, the results from the competition’s six categories offer a representative overview of the current state of design in the field of digital media. The cybergeneration – u19 freestyle computing category has again proved to be an ongoing success story with 925 works submitted this year. This competition sponsored by the BAWAG / P.S.K. Group is designed to offer young people the opportunity to display their ability, creativity and imaginativeness in working with computers.

Christine Schöpf

NET VISION

Golden Nica
Radical Software Group: Carnivore
Distinctions
Michael Aschauer / Josef Deinhofer / Maia Gusberti / Nik Thönen: ./logicaland
It’s Alive: BotFighters
Honorary Mentions
Jonathan Gay: Macromedia Flash
Alexandra Jugovic / Florian Schmitt / Hi-Res!: The Third Place
Harper Reed: Audreyhacking

NET EXCELLENCE

Golden Nica
Josh On: They Rule
Distinctions
Alexandra Jugovic / Florian Schmitt / Hi-Res!: Donnie Darko
schoenerwissen: Minitasking
Honorary Mentions
Peter Kuthan / Sabine Bitter / Thomas Schneider / Helmut Weber: Tonga.Online
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung: 60x1.com
Francis Lam: db-db.OUR.DESIGN.PLAYGROUND
Elan Lee: Cloudmakers

INTERACTIVE ART

Golden Nica
David Rokeby: n-cha(n)t
Distinctions
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Body Movies
Ranjit Makkuni: The Crossing Project
Honorary Mentions
Autorenwerkstatt MEET: FX Factory
Luc Courchesne: The Visitor—Living by Number
Crispin Jones: An Invisible Force
Ryota Kuwabuko: PLX
Golan Levin with Scott Gibbons / Greg Shakar / Yasmin Sohrawardy / Joris Gruber / Erich Semlak / Gunther Schmidl / Jörg Lehner: Dialtones
Tetsuya Mizuguchi / United Game Artists: Rez
Volker Morawe / Tilman Reiff: PainStation
Michael Saup + supreme particles: R111
Yasuhiro Suzuki / NHK Digital Stadium: The Globe-Jungle Project
Atau Tanaka / Kasper Toeplitz: Global Strings
The Synthetic Character Group: Alpha Wolf
Young Hay / Horace Ip / Alex Tang Chi-Chung: Body Brush

COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS

Golden Nica
Pete Docter / David Silverman / Lee Unkrich / Andrew Stanton: Monsters, Inc.
Distinctions
BUF: Panic Room
Peter McDonald: Harvey
Honorary Mentions
Hiroshi Chida: Polygon Family: Episode 2
Erik Nash / Digital Domain / Dreamworks: The Time Machine
Lars Magnus Holmgren (aka Dr. Frankenskippy): Annlee You Proposes
Wojtek Wawszczyk: Mouse
Jason Watts / The Mill: BMW Pool
Yasuhiro Yoshiura: Kikumana

DIGITIAL MUSICS

Golden Nica
Yasunao Tone: Man’yo Wounded 2001
Distinctions
Aeron Bergman / Alejandra Salinas / Lucky Kitchen: The Tale of Pip / Revisionland
Curtis Roads: Point, Line, Cloud
Honorary Mentions
Anticon: We Ain’t Fessin’
Iancu Dumitrescu / Ana-Maria Avram: “Oiseaux Céléstes II” / “Traces, Sillons, Sillages” II
pxp: pxp—print if
Goodiepal: Narc Beacon
Russell Haswell: Live Salvage 1997 – 2000
Francisco López: Buildings [New York]
Raz Mesinai: Soldier of Minian
Phoenicia: Brownout
Marina Rosenfeld: Delusional Situation
Mika Taanila / Ø: Fysikaalinen rengas
Carl Michael von Hausswolff: A Lecture on Disturbance in Architecture
Stephan Wittwer: Streams

CYBERGENERATION – u19 FREESTYLE COMPUTING

Golden Nica
Karola Hummer: TI-92
Distinctions
Philipp Luftensteiner: Arena
sofa 23: minials
Honorary Mentions
Projekt Dezentrale Medien: www.herein.at
BG XIX: Flash Animation
Manuel Fallmann: o fortuna
Georg Gruber: inflex.org
Stephan Hamberger: Meine Homepage
Dominik Jais: Berufsbekleidungsprogramm
Marian Kogler: Topix
Martin Kucera: filmemacher.at
Raphael Murr: Overcast
Lucas Reeh: DJ_Sky feat. HP–Deskjet 695c
Iris und Silvia Schweinöster: Digitale Malereien
René Weirather: $%§$§$%$YYYY

Selected works or Prix Ars Electronica are being presented in the CyberArts 2002 exhibition at the O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst. You find a detailed description of the projects in the Prix Ars Electronica Compendium CyberArts 2002.

CyberArts 2002
International Compendium
Prix Ars Electronica
H. Leopoldseder / C. Schöpf (eds.)
Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002