Ars Electronica launches S+T+ARTS Prize

As part of this initiative, the S+T+ARTS Prize awards the most pioneering collaborations and results in the field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and technology with the arts.

The S+T+ARTS Prize of the European Commission is launched by Ars Electronica and the consortium partners INOVA+, French Tech Grand Provence, Media Solutions Center Baden-Württemberg, Salzburg Festival, Sonar, T6Ecosystems and Kustodie at TUD Dresden University of Technology.

Benefits

• Two prizes, each with €20,000 prize money, are offered to honor innovative projects at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. In addition the prizewinners will be supported in presenting their work at the 2024 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
  • Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration
    • honors innovative collaboration between industry or technology and the artistic (and creative) sectors that open up new avenues for innovation
  • Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration
    • honors artistic research and works whose adoption by the arts has great potential to influence or change the use, application, or perception of technology

Prize Details

• S+T+ARTS Prize + Prix Ars Electronica
  • Every submission to the S+T+ARTS Prize competition can also be entered for Prix Ars Electronica prize consideration and vice versa. In other words, it’s possible for a single project to win both the S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 as well as a Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica grand prize.
• S+T+ARTS Prize + European Union Citizen Science Prize
  • Every submission to the S+T+ARTS Prize competition can also be entered for the European Union Prize for Citizen Science. The Prize competition is open to Citizen Science Initiatives in the European Research Area. This includes the European Union, all overseas countries and territories linked to EU member states, and all third countries associated to or currently negotiating an association agreement with Horizon Europe (for the 2024 iteration of the Prize: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom).

Who can enter?

• Artists/creative professionals or the researchers/companies involved from throughout the world; S+T+ARTS is not limited to citizens of EU-member states.

What can be submitted?

• Groundbreaking collaborations and projects driven by both technology and the arts. Purely artistic or technologically driven projects are not the focus of this competition.
• All forms of artistic works and practices with a strong link to innovation in technology, business and/or society; furthermore, S+T+ARTS is not restricted to a particular genre such as media art and digital art.
• All types of technological and scientific research and development that has been inspired by art or involves artists as catalysts of novel thinking.
• The jury is looking forward to receiving submissions from a broad variety of fields and disciplines. Among others, projects from the areas of new media applications, human computer interaction, machine learning, biotechnology, art & science, green technologies, material research, smart cities and citizen empowerment, robotics, quantum technology and many more are very welcome to apply.

According to which criteria are the entries judged?

• Quality of the artistic research and its potential influence on technology
• Quality and success of the collaboration between art and technology
• Quality and intensity of the connection to innovation, education, social inclusion or sustainability
• Quality and implementation of the European Dimension of the submitted project
• General criteria such as aesthetics, originality, convincing concept, innovation and the technique and quality of the presentation.

For more information, visit Ars Electronica.