• 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.
• A work may be entered in only one category.
• Works can be nominated for prize consideration in the individual competition categories until March 5, 2010.
  Nominations are recommendations; thus, nominated projects are not automatically entered in the competition. The nominated artists will be contacted by the organizer before the jury convenes. Then, projects must be formally submitted by the artists themselves prior to the entry deadline and in accordance with all competition criteria in order to be entered in the competition.
• Due to production constraints, the extended deadline for submitting all required materials is March 5, 2010 (date of the postmark).
• To participate in the Prix Ars Electronica, you must register online at
  prixars.aec.at
• In addition to the general entry rules, special entry rules apply to each individual category.
• 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.
• A signed copy of the entry form is to be mailed to the following address:
  
  Ars Electronica Linz GmbH
  Ars-Electronica-Straße 1
  A - 4040 Linz, Austria
  Code: Prix
  Fax +43.732.7272-674
  or per Email: info@prixars.aec.at

• An entry confirmation will be sent out via e-mail as soon as all required documentation and paperwork has been received.

JURY SESSIONS

April 15-18, 2010

NOTIFICATION

Winners of Golden Nicas, Awards of Distinction and Honorary Mentions will be notified before mid of May. 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 2010 awards presentation will take place on
September 3, 2010 during the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
Winners of Golden Nicas and Awards of Distinction must make a commitment to accepting their awards in person and to presenting their works at the Prix Ars Electronica Forum, an artist symposium to be held September 5-6, 2010. Groups and institutions are requested to nominate a representative to fulfill this commitment. As guests of Ars Electronica, winners will receive complementary economy class airline tickets for their trip to Linz.

CONTACT

Ars Electronica Linz GmbH
Ars-Electronica-Straße 1
 4040 Linz, Austria
Code: Prix

Bianca Petscher
Tel. +43.732.7272-79
Fax +43.732.7272-674
info@prixars.aec.at

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Jury Prix 2010

Deadline: March 5, 2010

Jury Sessions:
April 15-18, 2010

Notification:
Mid of May

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