This year, the Golden Nica in the category Net Excellence went to Joshua Davis for Praystation and in the category Net Vision to Team Chman for Banja.

The winner in Digital Music was Ryoji Ikeda for his project "Matrix". Carsten Nicolai and Marco Peljhan were the lucky guys which took home the Golden Nica in the category Interactive Art. And last but not least the excellence french "Le Processus" animation from Xavier de L’Hermuzière and Philippe Grammaticopoulos won too. In total, roughly 2,200 works from 62 countries around the world were entered this year in the Prix Ars Electronica.

This years Ars Electronica was somehow disappointing to some people and on the other side for me it was an great experience to work there. I think the problem at the Ars Electronica is, that the expectations are too high. But never the less it is The festivial for digital art with a huge representativ collection which is nowhere over the world as big as in Linz. Like every year, it is the best if you only go there without any expectations and probably it will be a big surprise. But I hope that there will be a new idea in future because if not, the future wouldn’t be digital.

Ars Electronica 2001
Date: September 1st – 6th, 2001
Place: Linz, Austria
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