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Winners 2003 announced June 5
The winners of this year's Prix Ars Electronica will be announced on June 5. Golden Nicas and Distinctions will be awarded in the following categories: Net Vision / Net Excellence, Interactive Art, Computer Animation / Visual Effects, Digital Musics and u19 - freestyle computing.

The works submitted to this year's Prix Ars Electronica established a new record: In the category Net Vision / Net Excellence have been submitted 397 projects, in the category Interactive Art 302 projects, in the category Computer Animation / Visual Effects there are 348 entries, in Digital Musics even 625, and 1.042 projects have been entered by young people from Austria in the category u19.

In each category, the jury awards one Golden Nica (EUR 10.000) two Awards of Distinction (EUR 5.000 each) and up to 12 Honorary Mentions. An exception is the category Net Vision / Net Excellence with two Golden Nicas, four Distinctions and up to 16 Honorary Mentions. And in the category u19 cybergeneration – freestyle computing the Golden Nica is EUR 5.500, the two Distinctions amount to 2.200 EUR each.


This year's Jury of Net Vision / Net Excellence are Steve Rogers (GB) of BBC New Media, Ed Burton (UK), Research & Development Director at SodaCreative Ltd., Flash Designer Joshua Davis (USA), curator Yukiko Shikata (J) and interaction designer Casey Raes (USA / I).

Members of the Interactive Art Jury are Christiane Paul (USA), Whitney Museum, New York, Tomoe Moriyama, curator of the Toyko Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Joe Paradiso (USA), professor at MIT Media Lab and specialist for Responsive Environments, Stahl Stenslie of KHM Cologne, one of the fathers of des Cybersex, and Scott Fisher of Telepresence, one of the pioneers of Virtual Reality und telepresence applications.

On the Computer Animation / Visual Effects will sit Rita Street (USA), publisher of Animation Magazine, Bob Sabiston (USA) of Flat Black Films, former prize winner at Prix Ars Electronica, Olivier Cauwet (F) of Buf Compagnie, Hiroshi Chida (J) of Polygon Pictures and Loren Carpenter (USA) of Cinematrix.

The Digital Musics Jury are Alain Mongeau (CDN), program director of MUTEK, festival for electronic arts, composer Markus Schmickler (D), artist Antye Greie-Fuchs (D), curator and producer Naut Humon (USA) and composer and writer David Toop (UK).

The u19 Jury are Sirikit Amann of the Austrian Cultural Service, Horst Hörtner of Ars Electronica Futurelab, Tina Auer of Time's up, Martin Pieper of FM 4 and Manfred Nürnberger.


26.5.2003
Ingrid Fischer

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