GENERAL

• To participate in the Prix Ars Electronica, you must register online and submit all mandatory information online.
• An artist may submit more than one work.
• Entrants are requested not to submit irreplaceable originals since submitted materials cannot be returned.
• Works submitted without the required accompanying material will not be accepted.
• An entry confirmation will be sent out via e-mail as soon as all required documentation has been received.
• A submission is complete and formally entered in the competition only if all information has been entered online and the submission has been finalized online.
• Employees of the organizers, sponsors and patrons of the Prix Ars Electronica, staff members of organizations that have established and endowed an individual category, as well as the competition’s jurors are ineligible to participate.

DEADLINES
Start Online Submission: July 18, 2012
Extended Online Submission Deadline: October 3rd, 2012

JURY SESSIONS
The jury sessions will be announced. It will be held with two representatives from Ars Electronica, two from CERN (including a member of the Cultural Board) and one external. There will be no written correspondence regarding the decision by the jury, other than to the winner of the award. The Jury’s decision is final.

NOTIFICATION
The winner of the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Artists Residency Prize will be notified at the beginning of December. In the interest of all entrants, we request that the entrant (or a representative named by him/her) be available during the period when winners will be notified at the address etc. specified in the entry form.

AWARDS CEREMONY
The Prix Ars Electronica 2012 awards presentation will take place during the Ars Electronica Festival 2012 in Linz.
The winner of the Collide@CERN Residency Award must make a commitment to attending the Ars Electronica Festival. Groups and institutions are requested to nominate a representative to fulfill this commitment.

Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Residency Award

Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is the new international competition for digital artists to win a residency at CERN the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. It is the first prize to be announced as part of the new Collide@CERN artists residency programme initiated by the laboratory.

This new prize marks a 3 year science/arts cultural partnership and creative collaboration between CERN and Ars Electronica – which begins/began/originated with CERN’s cooperation with Origin – the Ars Electronica Festival in 2011.

The aim of the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN prize is to take digital creativity to new dimensions by colliding the minds of scientists with the imaginations of artists. In this way, we seek to accelerate innovation across culture in the 21st century – creating new dimensions in digital arts, inspired by the ideas, engineering and science generated at CERN, and produced by the winning artist in collaboration with the transdisciplinary expertise of the FutureLab team at Ars Electronica.

The residency is in two parts – with an initial two months at CERN, where the winning artist will have a specially dedicated science mentor from the world famous science lab to inspire him/her and his/her work. The second part will be a month with the Futurelab team and mentor at Ars Electronica Linz with whom the winner will develop and make new work inspired by the CERN residency. From the first meeting between the artists, their CERN and Futurelab mentors, they will all participate in a dialogue which will be a public blog of their creative process until the final work is produced and maybe beyond. In this way, the public will be able to join in the conversation.

This final work will be showcased both at the Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN, in Geneva and at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. It will also be presented in the Prix Ars Electronica’s “CyberArts” catalogue.

The artist agrees to include the following acknowledge in all future exhibitions, documentations of the work:

This project was developed within the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Artists Residency.

The winning artist will receive

10,000 Euros prize money

In addition, rent, subsistence and travel are funded from a designated limited fund for both residencies. The awarding of this prize is thanks to the generosity of Ars Electronica and the funding of the creative residencies made possible by the generosity of anonymous donors. All artists insurances for the residencies are funded by the Exclusive Sponsor of all artists insurances for the Collide@CERN programme, UNIQA Assurances SA Switzerland.

We are looking for digital artists who will be truly inspired by CERN, showing their wish to engage with the ideas and/or technology of particle physics and with CERN as a place of scientific collaboration, using them as springboards of the imagination which dare to go beyond the paradigm. You might be a choreographer, performer, visual artist, film maker or a composer – what you all have in common is that you use the digital as the means of making your work and/or the way of presenting it.

Submission Details

We are inviting artists working in the digital arts to submit their proposals. The submission plattform will be opened by July 18th 2012 here. The closing date for submission has been extended to October 3rd, 2012.

Each submission has to be online and include the following parts:

• A personal testimony video which introduces the artist who describes why and how this residency will inspire new work (Up to 5 min.)
• An outline of a possible concept/idea which the artist wishes to pursue at CERN and Futurelab
• A draft production plan with costings and timeline
• A selected portfolio of work which showcases work the artist is proud of

All of the above have to be submitted online.

The concept description should explain the essentials of the idea, how and why the ideas and science generated by a residency at CERN and the working at Ars Electronica Futurelab are essential to the project.

The production plan should contain a clear description of the production tasks involved in the project, and how and why the Ars Electronica Futurelab personnel are important for the realization and production of the proposed idea.

The Jury will comprise two representatives from Ars Electronica/Futurelab with expertise in digital arts, two representatives from CERN (which will include the person in charge of the Arts @CERN and a member of the CERN Cultural Board) and an external expert in the field.

The Jury’s decision will be final and the artist will be expected to take up their residency in 2012. Where a first visit to CERN is planned in January, and the start for the actual residency in CERN will be March. After 2 months in CERN the Artist will travel to Linz for a third month to finish the residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Entry

This competition is open to all kinds of innovative concepts and ideas in the fields of art and technology

Art & Technology: interactive art, digital musics & sound art, computer animation / Film / VFX, digital communities & social media, hybrid art, performance & choreography, digital design.

Evaluation Criteria

Every concept submitted for consideration will be evaluated by a jury of experts in the order in which it was received according to the following criteria:

• Aesthetics, originality
• Compelling conception
• Innovation
• Technique and quality of the presentation
• Interest in the ideas of science as expressed by CERN

In addition, as part of the residency at CERN, the winning artist will be expected to engage with the community of scientists at CERN by holding open workshops with them to share artistic knowledge and inspiration. He/she will also hold public lectures the beginning and end of their residency with their science mentor at the Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN which will be broadcast via the internet and they will participate in the Ars Electronica Festival with their mentor also.

Strictly commercially oriented productions (product advertisements, etc.) are ineligible.

Presentation of the Collide@CERN Residency Award Project

The project or concept will be showcased at the Festival Ars Electronica. If possible, the preparations for this exhibition will be made within the framework of the Artist/Scientist-In-Residence term in Linz and Geneva.

The winner must provide assurance that he/she will definitely present his/her project or concept at the Festival Ars Electronica and the Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN. This presentation must be arranged in consultation with the festival organizers, who reserve the right to take festival programming considerations into account in prescribing the format of the presentation.