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Julian Oliver (NZ), Danja Vasiliev (RU) – Newstweek / Golden Nica
Paolo Cirio (IT), Alessandro Ludovico (IT) – Face to Facebook – Hacking Monopolism Trilogy / Award of Distinction
Daito Manabe (JP), Motoi Ishibashi (JP) – Rhizomatiks and 4nchor5 La6 – particles / Award of Distinction

Participants of the Forum

Tomoe Moriyama (JP) – Member of the Jury
Julian Oliver (NZ)
Danja Vasiliev (RU)
Paolo Cirio (IT)
Alessandro Ludovico (IT)
Daito Manabe (JP)
Motoi Ishibashi (JP)

Ars Electronica Quarter, Maindeck

21:00 – 22:00 Tesla Orchestra (US)
22:00 – 23:00 Daito Manabe (JP)

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

23:00 POP:SCH (AT), C60 (AT), Laming Hips – Shy DJ Team (AT)

Stadtwerkstatt, Strom

23:00 Cueing (AT), DJ NDL (AT)

Tesla Orchestra (USA)

The American ensemble takes the stage with a high-energy show in which the million-volt high tension of two Tesla coils is transferred into audio frequencies.

Daito Manabe (JP), Motoi Ishibashi (JP) & Satoru Higa (JP)

Daito Manabe (JP) and his partner Motoi Ishibashi (JP) are prizewinners in the 2011 Prix Ars Electronica’s Interactive Art category. In addition to his media art works (such as particles, a magnificent, walk-through installation currently on display in the Ars Electronica Center), Manabe is also a successful musician and visualizer who has acquired a big reputation on the international electronic music scene. His minimalistic sound pieces are reduced to the essentials, negotiating a difficult split with one foot in Groove and the other in abstraction.

POP:SCH (AT)

POP:SCH fabricates electro-pop that is as hymnal as need be, as baroque as possible and, Drehli Robnik (AT) promises, incessantly striving to achieve maximum sexuality. It takes a sing-along approach to a quadripartite theme: Viennese romances in uniform, love-lazy girlfriends, egoistic hearts and other amorous complications. If Peaches and Kim Wilde would have a love child, its name would be POP:SCH.

C60 (AT)

Despite their successful debut in 2006, this Linz electronic duo seems to have an extraordinary case of stage fright and is rarely seen/heard live. For this performance of material for their work-in-progress follow-up album, they’ve assembled a band of top-name sidemen

Cueing (AT)

Dubstep turntablist Cueing began his career as a hip-hop DJ. Now, he’s also a producer and pursues sating his weakness for low-frequency bassmonster genres like dubstep, grime and filth.

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Seven expert juries deliberated to decide the winners of six Golden Nicas, 12 Awards of Distinction, [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant and 74 Honorary Mentions. A total of €117,500 in prize money went to the winners. The official awards ceremony will be part of the Ars Electronica Gala on Friday, September 2nd at 6:30 PM.

Launched in 1987 as a competition for cyberarts, the Prix Ars Electronica plays a major role in the history of Ars Electronica. With continuity over 25 years, interdisciplinarity in seven different categories, an internationality that manifested itself in 3,611 submissions from 74 countries in 2011, and the expertise of 35 jury members, the Prix Ars Electronica is a seismograph for the latest innovations at the interface of art, technology and science, and thus an important barometer of trends in the digital arts. Currently, the Prix Ars Electronica includes everything from digital filmmaking, digital music and sound art, interactive art, hybrid art, community projects, [the next idea] concepts, and works by young people under nineteen.

The works of the winners of this year’s Prix will be shown at the Brucknerhaus.

Prix Forum I – Hybrid Art

03.09.2011 Sa/Sat, 15:00-18:00, Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The prize winners in the Hybrid Art category
Art Orienté Objet (FR) – May the Horse Live in Me, 2011 / Golden Nica
Tuur van Balen (BE) – Pigeon d’Or / Award of Distinction
Christin Lahr (DE) – MACHT GESCHENKE: DAS KAPITAL / Award of Distinction

Participants of the Forum
Oron Catts (AU) – Member of the Jury
Marion Laval-Jeantet (FR), Benoît Mangin (FR) (Art Orienté Objet)
Tuur van Balen (BE)
Christin Lahr (DE)
Dimitry Gelfand (NL)

Prix Forum – Hybrid Art is part of the ORIGIN Symposium IV

Prix Forum II – Digital Communities

04.09.2011 So/Sun, 14:00-14:50, 16:20-17:10, Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The prize winners in the Digital Communities category
Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente: www.ciudadanointeligente.org / Golden Nica
Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative: www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk Award of Distinction
X_MSG: http://xmsg.org.uk / Award of Distinction

Prix Forum – Digital Communities is part of the Public Square Squared Conference

Prix Forum III – Digital Musics & Sound Art

05.09.2011 Mo/Mon, 10:00-11:30, Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The prize winners in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category
Jana Winderen (NO) – Energy Field / Golden Nica
Apostolos Loufopoulos (GR) – Bee / Award of Distinction
Philip Jeck (UK) – Suite / Award of Distinction

Participants of the Forum
Susanna Niedermayr (AT) – Member of the Jury
Jana Winderen (NO)
Apostolos Loufopoulos (GR)
Philip Jeck (UK)

Prix Forum IV – Computer Animation / Film / VFX

05.09.2011 Mo/Mon, 12:30-14:00, Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The prize winners in the Computer Animation category
Alessandro Bavari (IT) – Metachaos / Golden Nica
Alex Roman (ES) – The Third & The Seventh / Award of Distinction
David O’Reilly (IE) – THE EXTERNAL WORLD / Award of Distinction

Participants of the Forum
Alessandro Bavari (IT)
David O’Reilly (IE)

Prix Forum V – Interactive Art

05.09.2011 Mo/Mon, 14:30-16:00, Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The prize winners in the Interactive Art category
Julian Oliver (NZ), Danja Vasiliev (RU) – Newstweek / Golden Nica
Paolo Cirio (IT), Alessandro Ludovico (IT) – Face to Facebook – Hacking Monopolism Trilogy / Award of Distinction
Daito Manabe (JP), Motoi Ishibashi (JP) – Rhizomatiks and 4nchor5 La6 – particles / Award of Distinction

Participants of the Forum
Tomoe Moriyama (JP) – Member of the Jury
Julian Oliver (NZ)
Danja Vasiliev (RU)
Paolo Cirio (IT)
Alessandro Ludovico (IT)
Daito Manabe (JP)
Motoi Ishibashi (JP)

Prix Ars Electronica 2011, Award of Distinction, Interactive Art