[microsound] new ars category

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To mark Ars Electronica¹s 25th anniversary, the Prix Ars Electronica is
expanding the international scope of its activities and focusing on
phenomena of tremendous current relevance to Information Society. The new
Digital Communities category will recognize exemplary initiatives that are
advancing the openness of Information Society. In the words of Ars
Electronica Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker: ³The projects in this new
category are utilizing modern technologies to implement a vision of new,
open and democratic structures. They are bringing people closer to one
another, creating means of access to information, and making a tangible
contribution to improving the quality of life and promoting social
coexistence.² This category is made possible by SAP, the world¹s leading
supplier of business software. Examples of the activities on which it will
focus include collective ³blogging³ (gathering opinions, information and
links) in the Internet, spontaneously congregating ³flash mobs² (large-scale
assemblies organized online or via cell phone), learning, gaming, and fan
communities, e-government portals, and innovative developmental projects in
so-called Third World countries. The prizes in this category will be awarded
by a jury made up of leading international experts including Joichi Ito,
Shanthi Kalathil, Howard Rheingold and Oliviero Toscani. The winners will be
singled out for recognition in June 2004 at a ceremony in New York, where
their projects will then go on public exhibition. The prizes in the other
³classic² categories will be handed out as in the past at the Prix Ars
Electronica Gala in Autumn 2004 in Linz.


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