Prix Ars Electronica
Photo: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair
Digital Communities
Win the Prix Ars Electronica’s Golden Nica, up to 10,000 euros and a prominent appearance at the Ars Electronica Festival with your community project!
No projects can currently be submitted in this category – we recommend choosing one of the other categories of the current Prix Ars Electronica if they match your project.
The “Digital Communities” category focuses on the wide-ranging field of artistic and social projects and activities that aim to deliver social benefits, create and support communities, and foster an open and inclusive civil society.
Projects addressing social, cultural, environmental, educational, political issues in modern society, activities to tackle cultural diversity, gender equality, citizen empowerment, projects that defend and support democracy, human rights and freedom of expression, initiatives which develop and promote ideas and infrastructures for an inclusive and sustainable society, with innovative and artistic approach.
Jurors will place particular emphasis on the meaningfulness, appropriateness and openness of the activities. Entries in this category should serve as role-models and sources of inspiration, encouragement and empowerment.
Golden Nica 2022: Avatar Robot Cafe DAWN ver.β / Ory Yoshifuji, Credit: MIYOGRAPHY
Golden Nica 2020: Be Water / Hong Kongers
Golden Nica 2018: Bellingcat
Golden Nica 2016: P2P Foundation
Golden Nica 2014: Project Fumbaro Eastern Japan – An autonomic crowdsourcing model to cope with the critical situation
What can you win?
| 1 | Golden Nica | Statuette, 10.000 Euro prize money, Award certificate, prominent appearance at the Ars Electronica Festival |
| 2 | Awards of Distinctions | Award certificate, prominent appearance at the Ars Electronica Festival |
| up to 12 | Honorary Mentions | Award certificate |
What kinds of projects are eligible?
Among the projects, phenomena, artworks and fields of activity subsumed under the heading Digital Communities are:
social software
artistic and technological collaborative projects
user-generated content & metadata
crowdsourcing & co-creation
citizen involvement / citizen journalism
empowerment / resistance
citizen-countersurveillance
advocacy projects
smart citizen projects
open data- / open government-projects
eRights / eDemocracy / eGovernance / public services
AI, Machine Learning
pop-up grass-roots movements (including initiatives that are no longer active)
Who can submit an entry?
- We invite submissions from a range of applicants, including individuals, groups, associations, public institutions, NGO and private enterprises.
- Entries may also be submitted by projects funded by government organizations or commercial enterprises that are not profit oriented.
- Submissions by individuals must deliver benefits for the community.
- Community projects may be submitted only by an authorized representative.
Checklist
The following materials should accompany submissions:
- Detailed description of the project (concept and content)
- Supporting information and resources
- Images of the work or Screenshot(s) of the website (JPG, TIF, BMP, PNG (maximum quality; compressed files (e.g., .zip .lzh) cannot be accepted)
- A portrait photograph and biography of the person submitting the entry
- Optional: additional material (images/documents (PDF)/…)
Jury
All entries will be judged by a Jury of experts in the order of their arrival. In addition to the works entered by participants, each jury may also nominate other works.