Andreas Broeckmann on Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:24:26 +0200


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Syndicate: Prix Ars Electronica 97


Prix Ars Electronica 97: FleshFactor

TOTAL PRIZE MONEY US$ 102,880

Ars Electronica 97: September 8 - 13, 1997


For the eleventh time, the Austrian Broadcasting Company, Upper Austrian
Regional Studio, as the organizer of the Prix Ars Electronica 1997, invites
artists, scientists and developers to participate in this year's
competition. There are three money prizes and as many as 12 honorary
mentions for each competition category.


The countdown of one thousand days to the year two thousand begins in 1997,
specifically on April 5, 1997. Since its inception in 1979 as a "Festival
for Art, Technology and Society", the Ars Electronica has always included
areas extraneous to art in its reflections on the future, so that the
radical transformation of culture in the digital era that coincides with
moving into the next millennium presents a special challenge.

While the primary focus of the festival was on the connection between art
and technology when it was founded in 1979, and ten years ago on the
exploration of the computer as a universal medium for creative work when
the Prix Ars Electronica was initiated in 1987, this year the Ars
Electronica 97, with the title "FleshFactor - Informationsmaschine Mensch",
addresses the position of the Mensch, the human being - in the crossfire of
gene technology, neuroscience and networked intelligence.

The opening of the Ars Electronica Center in 1996 as a center for digital
art and media marks a new phase in the development of the festival.

The infrastructure that has thus been created makes continuing work
possible - it is possible to meet the demands of current and on-going
artistic work and to address central issues in depth and over a longer time
period. This means that an international node has been created in
conjunction with the Prix Ars Electronica, a research and experimental
laboratory for art as the decisive shaping factor of the digital
information society.

For the festival organizers, the Ars Electronica Center and the Austrian
Broadcasting Corporation, Upper Austrian Regional Studio, this means that
through the positioning of the festival it is possible to address the
topical issues of the development of culture and civilization even in their
overall global, social dimensions.

The Prix Ars Electronica is well on its way to becoming a competition for
contemporary art. Tools have been transformed into media that influence one
another and open up a broad field for creativity through the integration of
networks and computers, media that may no longer be controlled with the
traditional rules of the game of art.

The Prix Ars Electronica is moving with these dynamics in every category of
the competition:

- computer animation is opening up in the direction of VR,
- the original web category has been expanded into the .net category,
- interactive art is being redefined by an emphasis on communication and
networking,
- the music category is oriented more and more to the multiplicity of new
and experimental sound worlds, which we want to include in this category.

Dr. Hannes Leopoldseder
ORF Landesstudio Oberšsterreich
Gerfried Stocker
Ars Electronica Center
 
Further information on the different categories and entry forms:

http://prixars.orf.at/prixe.htm


DEADLINE: 30 April 1997


Please send your entry to:

ORF - Prix Ars Electronica
Europaplatz 3
A-4010 Linz
Austria

For additional information please contact:
ORF - Prix Ars Electronica
Christine Schoepf
Telephone: ++43(0)732-6900-267
Fax: ++43(0)732-6900-270 or 200
E-mail: ia.info@prixars.orf.at
 

The Prix Ars Electronica 1997 is sponsored by SIEMENS NIXDORF.

The competition is made possible through the support of the VOEST-ALPINE
STAHL, the city of Linz, the province of Upper Austria and the Gerhard
Andlinger Foundation.

For additional support, the Prix Ars Electronica also thanks Lufthansa, the
Ramada Hotel, Mailfast, the Casinos Austria AG, Silicon Graphics â?¦sterreich
and the EDV Zentrum at the Johannes Kepler UniversitÅ t.