MEDIA.ART.RESEARCH AWARD
In conjunction with the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research will be awarding a prize honoring an outstanding theoretical work on the subject of "Interactive Artforms."
Prix Ars Electronica Media.Art.Research Award wants to further scholarly investigation of media artforms that have not yet gotten established in the context of art museums or in the commercial art world, and of processual, conceptual and interactive art that assumes subversive, situational and committed positions at the interface of art, technology and society.
This new theory prize (prize money: 5,000 euros) is designed to accord due recognition to the important work being done by art historians and media scholars in the field of media art, which has emerged over the last two decades as an innovative, wide-ranging discipline in its own right. The great diversity and tremendous current relevance of this branch of artistic production call for theoretical and scholarly reflection on the historical significance of such artworks, on how to mediate audiences' encounters with them and on their conservation. The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research has been pursuing precisely these tasks since its founding in Linz in 2005. The theory prize competition is meant to promote an international discourse centering on the theories, methodologies and standards of media art. Essential to this agenda is the necessity of defining terms and developing a theoretical framework in a way that affirms pluralism and emphatically rejects any sort of final categorization of such artforms.
WHAT CAN YOU SUBMIT? SUBMISSION DETAILS JURY DELIBERATIONS
WHAT CAN YOU SUBMIT?
Theoretical works dealing with some aspect of "interactive artforms" can be entered this year—for example, a university thesis/dissertation, a scholarly article, an essay, a book or an online publication. The work must either be in the form of a completed manuscript or have already been published. Individuals or groups of people of any nationality are eligible to enter.
The Prix Ars Electronica Media.Art.Research Award is meant to recognize basic scholarly research and contemporary theory construction that addresses current scientific, social and artistic issues. In the judging, decisive emphasis will be placed on the submission's contribution to the latest research and not on the historical merits of the author. Consideration will also be given to the Ludwig Boltzmann Society's overriding objective of fostering the careers of promising academicians. The jury will pay particular attention to the quality of the work's content and its scholarly relevance. Contemporary methodological approaches expressed in a clear, understandable way are especially welcome, as are innovative publication formats (e.g. online publishing).
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Entrants can submit works of any length in German or English. Each work must be accompanied by an abstract in English (maximum 4,000 characters; a German abstract is optional). Restricting entrants to these two languages is meant to assure satisfactory scholarly evaluation of all entries by the jury charged with this task.
A hardcopy of the work can be sent in, or it can be submitted via e-mail as an attached file in one of the commonly employed text formats. Publications in other forms (such as online publishing) can be made available by specifying the text's URL.
Entrants are requested to register online at prixars.aec.at and to submit a signed hardcopy of the online registration together with the entry materials by March 7, 2008 to the following address:
Ars Electronica Linz GmbH
Hauptstraße 2 4040 Linz, Austria
Code: Prix
Fax +43.732.7272-674
JURY DELIBERATIONS
The jury will convene April 17-20, 2008. The winner will be notified by May 31, 2008 and be presented with the prize at the Prix Ars Electronica Gala in September. The abstract of the text singled out for recognition will be published in a book entitled "Cyberarts 2008 – International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica 2008." As a precondition of participation, the winner agrees to present his/her theoretical work to an audience at an event to be arranged by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.
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