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Nominations open for S+T+ARTS Prize 2025

Deadline: 5 March 2025

The S+T+ARTS Prize aims to showcase and celebrate visions and achievements at the interface between innovation and creation—driven by both science/technology and the Arts.

Categories

  • 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 2025 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 2025 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).

Funding Information

  • The winning artist(s) will receive prize money of €20,000. This amount is to be paid by direct bank deposit, after the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 and upon presentation of an invoice stating “Prize Money S+T+ARTS Prize 2025”. This is the only method by which Ars Electronica can transfer funds. The prize money can be paid as a net amount only if, approximately one week prior to the exhibition, Ars Electronica is provided with the original signed form ZS-QU1 (ZS-QU2 for legal entities); officially confirmed from the foreign tax authorities. Without this confirmation, Ars Electronica will be unable to pay the fee as a net amount and under international tax laws will have to retain 20% withholding tax (subject to any change in the rate of tax).

Eligibility Criteria

  • The submission is open to all forms of artistic work and all types of technological and scientific research and development.
  • To participate in the S+T+ARTS Prize, you must register online and submit all mandatory information online. 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. An entry confirmation will be sent out via e-mail as soon as all required documentation has been received.
  • Every submitted project must be, at the time of its submission, either totally completed or far enough along for the jury to be able to assess its quality and the likelihood of it being successfully implemented. The same applies to collaborative arrangements—at the time they’re submitted, they must already be up-and-running and in the implementation stage. No consideration will be given to entries that are purely concepts, ideas or proposals for collaboration.
  • Projects should not be older than two years or have to show a significant update or further development within the last two years.
  • An artist may submit more than one work.

Application Requirements

  • A video documentary (approximately 3 minutes in length)
  • Images (JPG, TIF, BMP, PNG) at the highest possible resolution; compressed files (such as .zip or .lzh files) are not accepted.
  • A clear, detailed description of the artistic concept, the form of interaction and technical implementation; since specific prerequisites have to be fulfilled for an onsite presentation to take place (e.g. in conjunction with the Ars Electronica Festival), the project’s specifications as to hardware & software and spatial requirements should be as detailed as possible. Moreover, the entrant must specify what he/she can provide on his/her own in order to stage such an onsite presentation, and what must necessarily be furnished by Ars Electronica Linz.
  • A printable portrait photo and a biography of the artist.
  • At the entrant’s option, additional material such as images, documents and drawings (as PNG or PDF) can also be submitted.
  • The submitters are asked not to physically submit irreplaceable originals, as the entered material cannot be returned.

For more information, visit Ars Electronica.