ABSTRACT

The presentation gives an outline of the development of the ‘Festival Ars Electronica’ from 1979 onward and the aim of the ‘Prix Ars Electronica’ as a prize contest for comouterarts: graphics, animation, music and interactive art. Furthermore, the presentation will particularly note the changing context in which the relation between art and technology is developing, and analyses, in connection, the changing possibilities for forms of presentation and the changing concepts of artistic projects.

• Christine Schopf, director Ars Electronica (Austria)