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[the next idea]

Discovering ideas for tomorrow in young minds today is the aim of this grant supported by voestalpine and focusing on the intersection of art and technology. The category’s target group includes students at universities, art schools, technical schools, and other educational institutions as well as creatives from all over the world, aged 19–27, who have developed as-yet-unproduced concepts in the fields of media art, media design or media technology. The winner receives a stipend and will be invited to spend a term as Researcher and Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Judging will be done by a panel of experts.



Computer Animation / Visual Effects

The category "Computer Animation / Visual Effects" of Prix Ars Electronica includes Computer Animation, especially 3D CG character animation, abstract CG animations, realtime CG ”demo-scene” work, game cutscenes, scientific visualizations, commercials, music videos and so forth. Visual Effects include in particular the use of CG for creative manipulation of or additions to live-action elements.


Digital Communities

To mark its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2004, Ars Electronica had expanded its international competition for cyberarts to include a new category called "Digital Communities." "Digital Communities" encompasses the wide-ranging social consequences of the Internet as well as the latest developments in the domain of mobile communications and wireless networks. "Digital Communities" will spotlight bold and inspired innovations impacting human coexistence, bridging the digital divide regarding gender as well as geography, or creating outstanding social software and enhancing accessibility of technological-social infrastructure. This new category will showcase the political potential of digital and networked systems and is thus designed as a forum for the consideration of a broad spectrum of projects, programs, initiatives and phenomena in which social innovation is taking place, as it were, in real time.

Digital Musics & Sound Art

The Digital Musics category of the Prix Ars Electronica is open to Electronica (like Drum'n Bass, Dub, Techno, Downtempo, Ambient, Breakbeat, Global, HipHop, Jazz, Noise, Mondo/Exotica, digital DJ- culture, etc.), Sound and Media (like sonic sculpture, intermedia/sound driven visuals, performances, soundspace projects, installations, radio works, net-music, generative musics, etc.), Computer compositions (electroacoustic, acousmatic and experimental).

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.

Net Vision

The "Net Vision" category singles out for recognition artistic projects in the Internet that display brilliance in how they have been engineered, designed and-especially-conceived, works that are outstanding with respect to innovation, interface design and the originality of their content. The way in which a work of net-based art deals with the online medium is essential in this category.


u19-freestyle computing

The competition, which was created in 1998 by the ORF Upper Austrian Regional Studio, has become established as the most successful youth competition for computer and new media in Austria. The works evince a great diversity and demonstrate the scope of opportunities that have opened up for young people through the creative use of the computer and digital media.