Congratulations to Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud! With their project qaul.net they have won this years [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant! You can find a detailed description of the project here.

What to do when there is no internet conncetion and no standard euqipment availiable to get one? Build a kite!

Developing something like a next idea, often needs a great deal of imagination. Danqing Shi created a novel game which is stimulating exactly these imaginative forces on the nexus of art, politics and technology.

Follow the people from the choke point project (winner of the [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant 2011) through this years Ars Electronica Festival and get some impressions of what is happening in Linz at the moment!

Here is a first short description of the “ChokePoint Project” by the p2p Foundation. Due to their aim to map the choke points of the internet, they won the 2011 “[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant” and are already realising the idea in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Futurelab.