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This category is open to all applications/categories of WWW sites, with the exception of those that are exclusively commercially oriented in the sense of product advertisement. The sites will be judged on the basis of criteria such as webness (Is WWW the only place where this application / site can emerge, exist, be developed?), community forming (Does it sustain a new form of community?), virtual identity (Does a sense of a single identity emerge from a community of many?), user input and feedback.

Computer Animation

This category is open to animation work from all fields - science and research as well as art, education and entertainment. Entries may consist of computer generated films produced through individual computer programming and/or the creative use of available computer programs. It is permissible for traditionally produced film/video material to be digitally integrated or combined with the computer animation.

Computer Music

This category is open to animation work from all fields - science and research as well as art, education and entertainment.

Entries may consist of computer generated films produced through individual computer programming and/or the creative use of available computer programs. It is permissible for traditionally produced film/video material to be digitally integrated or combined with the computer animation.

Interactive Art

This category of Prix Ars Electronica is open to all types of current interactive works in any form: installations, performance, audience participation, virtual reality, multimedia, telecommunication, etc.

Criteria for judging the works include the form of interaction, interface design, new applications, technical innovations, originality and the significant role of the computer for the interaction.