ICE Announcements 1.18.04
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
<http://ice.uga.edu>
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1. Creative Capital Foundation Grants
2. Prix Ars Electronica
3. Media Lab Europe closing
4. Tsunami Relief benefit
5. CHA Bioethics lecture
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1. Open for submission: Feb. 14th. Creative Capital will be awarding its annual Foundation Grants
for 2005-2006. Grants are for the Performing arts and emerging fields (including innovative
literature). For online submissions, view our guidelines and inquiry forms at www.creative-
capital.org <http://www.creative-capital.org>. For mail-in submissions, send an SASE to Creative
Capital by Mon. Feb. 28th.
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2. World's largest CyberArts competition - Six Golden Nicas and â?¬ 110,000 in
prize money - Entries commence January 10th.
Creatives across the entire spectrum of media art and technology may begin
submitting their work to the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica on January 10th. The
categories range from [the next idea] and u19 competitions for young people
to the classic Ars Electronica disciplines-Digital Musics, Net Vision,
Computer Animation and Interactive Art-all the way to Digital Communities
with its programmatic commitment to sociopolitical innovation. The deadline
for submissions is March 10, 2005.
The Prix Ars Electronica is being held for the 19th time this year. This
cyberarts competition is conceived as an open platform for works
representing a broad spectrum of disciplines in the digital media field at
the interface of art, technology and society. Since 1987, the Prix Ars
Electronica is the most important and most successful international showcase
of the best of digital media art.
To submit an entry and for more information, log on to www.aec.at/prix
<http://www.aec.at/prix>
The Categories:
COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS
<http://www.aec.at/de/prix/animation/animation.asp>
The "Computer Animation / Visual Effects" category has been part of the Prix
Ars Electronica since its very inception. It recognizes excellence in
independent work in the arts and sciences as well as in high-end commercial
productions in the film, advertising and entertainment industries. In this
category, artistic originality counts just as much as masterful technical
achievement.
DIGITAL MUSICS <http://www.aec.at/de/prix/musics/musics.asp>
Contemporary digital sound productions from the broad spectrum of
"electronica" come in for consideration in the "Digital Musics" category, as
do works combining sound and media, computer compositions ranging from
electro-acoustic to experimental music, and sound installations. This
category's programmatic agenda is to expand horizons beyond the confines of
individual genres and artistic currents.
INTERACTIVE ART <http://www.aec.at/de/prix/interactive/interactive.asp>
The "Interactive Art" category is dedicated to interactive works in all
forms and formats, from installations to performances. Here, particular
consideration is given to the realization of a powerful artistic concept
through the especially appropriate use of technologies, the innovativeness
of the interaction design, and the work's inherent potential to expand the
human radius of action.
NET VISION <http://www.aec.at/de/prix/net/net.asp>
The "Net Vision" category singles out for recognition artistic projects in
the Internet that display brilliance in how they have been engineered,
designed and-especially-conceived, works that are outstanding with respect
to innovation, interface design and the originality of their content. The
way in which a work of net-based art deals with the online medium is
essential in this category.
DIGITAL COMMUNITIES
For the second time in 2005, Prix Ars Electronica will honor important
achievements by digital communities. This category focuses attention on the
wide-ranging social impact of the Internet as well as on the latest
developments in the fields of social software, mobile communications and
wireless networks. "Digital Communities" spotlights bold and inspired
innovations impacting human coexistence-efforts to bridge the geographical
as well as gender-based digital divide, to create outstanding social
software or to enhance the accessibility of technological-social
infrastructure. This category showcases the political potential of digital
and networked systems and is thus designed as a forum for the consideration
of a broad spectrum of projects, programs, initiatives and phenomena in
which social innovation is taking place, as it were, in real time. A Golden
Nica, two Awards of Distinction and up to 12 Honorary Mentions will be
awarded in the Digital Communities category in 2005.
[the next idea] <http://www.aec.at/de/prix/nextidea/index.asp>
Art and Technology Grant
The aim of this grant focusing on the mutually enriching interplay of art
and technology is to nurture concepts for the future that young thinkers are
coming up with today. This category's target group includes students at
universities, art schools, polytechnic colleges and other educational
institutions, as well as all other interested persons throughout the world
between the ages of 19 and 27, who have developed a not-yet-realized concept
in the fields of media art, media design or media technology. The winner
will receive a â?¬ 7,500 grant and an invitation to spend a semester as
scientific assistant and artist-in-residence at the Ars Electronica
Futurelab.
u19 freestyle computing
"u19 freestyle computing" is Austria's foremost computer competition for
young people. Helping youngsters to bring their ideas to fruition and
exhibit their work, and nurturing their abilities, creativity and
inventiveness in working with modern technologies and new media is the
mission of Prix Ars Electronica's u19 freestyle computing category. Just as
the name "freestyle computing" suggests, the spectrum of potential
submissions is broad. And a perusal of the 1,103 entries in 2004 confirms
that Austrian young people are giving free rein to their creativity. The
list of past winners and recipients of Awards of Distinction and Honorary
Mentions also displays great diversity, including groups of kids as well as
individuals, primary school pupils and high school grads. The thematically
wide-ranging creative encounter of Austrian youth with the kaleidoscope of
modern technology is being played out in computer animation, robotics, Web
design, interactive games and an array of other fields.
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3. FUNDING WRANGLE FORCES CLOSURE OF MIT RESEARCH LAB IN IRELAND
Media Lab Europe—a collaboration between the Irish Government and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology—is set to close its doors. The two main stakeholders failed to reach agreement on
a new funding model, and therefore the lab's board of directors plans to place the company in
voluntary solvent liquidation. Approximately 100 people are employed in the lab—launched in
2000 as "a ground-breaking research and innovation laboratory in the fields of digital
technology." The lab was supposed to gradually become self-financing after initial investment
from the Irish Government. However, in May the facility asked the government and MIT for
additional funding, in part it says, because "the climate of the past four years has proven
extremely difficult for the lab, MIT and the international ICT [information and communications
technologies] sector."
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4. Tsunami Relief Benefit on February 5th in the Cellar Theatre@ 8pm. Students can submit work
for a silent auction, the work doesn't necessarily have to relate to the Tsunami. Also the other
areas of events are: performance art, monologues, short scenes or plays, music, poetry, and
dance. It's a very open event, but we do want to keep any performance pieces in relation to the
Tsunami. Also everything should be under ten minutes.
If anyone wants to submit, they need to submit by January 27th, and we will also have a meeting
in the Fine Arts Building in rm 352 @5pm to meet everyone and look at their project. Then we will
have a rehearsal on February 3rd, most likely in the Cellar. I will keep you updated. Email Jenn
Morris <[log in to unmask]> with questions.
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5. Friday, January 21: Bioethics Lecture. Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and Arts, and
Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute. Bonnie Steinbock delivers this lecture titled Choosing our
Children's Genes. 3:30 PM. 115 Peabody Hall.
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