JURY Computer Animation / Film / VFX Mark Dippé, Sabine Hirtes, Ken Perlin, Ivan Tsupka, Boo Wong Digital Musics Rupert Huber, Furukawa Kiyoshi, Elisabeth Schimana, Andrey Smirnov, Rob Young Hybrid Art Scott deLahunta, Jens Hauser, Golan Levin, Elaine Ng, Sandrine von Klot Interactive Art Söke Dinkla, Erkki Huhtamo, Hiroshi Ishii, Shu-Min Lin, Geetha Narayanan Digital Communities Andreas Hirsch, André Lemos, Gunalan Nadarajan, Kathy Rae Huffman, Steve Rogers [the next idea] Art and Technology Grant Tina Auer, Horst Hörtner, Orhan Kipcak, Gabriele Kotsis, Daniela Pühringer Media.Art.Research Award Dieter Daniels, Olia Lialina, Christiane Paul, Claus Pias, Felix Stalder u19 – freestyle computing Sirikit Amann, Gerlinde Lang, Christopher Lindinger, Günter Nimmerfall, Rainer Zendron Prix Ars Electronica 2007 286 287 Jury Computer Animation / Film / VFX Digital Musics Hybrid Art Interactive Art Mark Dippé (US ) joined Industrial Light Rupert Huber (AT ). A composer and Scott deLahunta (NL ) is a researcher, Söke Dinkla (DE ) studied art history, & Magic in 1988. He was one of the musician, he studied music science, writer, consultant and organizer on a literature, folklore and biology. In 1996, creators of the Pseudopod in The composition and electro-acoustic wide range of international projects she received her doctorate from the Abyss and the liquid metal man in music in Vienna. bringing performing arts into conjunc - University of Hamburg. Since 2000, Terminator 2: Judgment Day , as well as tion with other disciplines and prac - she has been curator of the Akzente the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park . He has tices. He is an associate research cultural festival in the Festival Bureau of also created computer animation for fellow at Dartington College of Arts, a the City of Duisburg. In February 2007, several major motion pictures. Mark left research fellow at the Amsterdam she was named artistic director of the ILM to direct the feature film Spawn . He is currently School for the Arts and visiting artist at the Dance Depart - Ruhr 2010 Capital of Culture bureau in Duisburg. finishing production on the animated picture Sharkbait . Furukawa Kiyoshi (JP ) studied com - ment / Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design, position under the tutelage of Yoshiro Ohio State University. Erkki Huhtamo (FI ) works as professor Sabine Hirtes (DE ) studied visual com - Irino in Japan, Isang Yun at the Acad - of media history and theory at the Uni - munications in Aachen and completed emy of Music in Berlin and Goergy Jens Hauser (DE/FR ) is a Paris-based versity of California Los Angeles, a course in computer graphics. After Ligeti at the College of Music in art curator, writer, cultural journalist Department of Design | Media Arts. He graduating in 1989, she worked as a Hamburg. Since 2000 he has been a and video maker focusing on the inter - has published extensively on media 3D/2D artist. In 1993, she became an professor at the Tokyo National Univer - actions between art and technology archaeology and media arts, lectured assistant for digital image design at the sity of Fine Arts and Music. He has and on trans-genre and contextual aes - worldwide, created television programs Film Academy in Baden-Württemberg, been actively engaged in musical activities in collaboration thetics. Hauser is also a director of cre - and curated media art exhibitions. and in 1997 she transferred to the with the group “Triangle”, which organizes events for people ative radio pieces, sound environments ZKM – Center for Art and Media – in Karlsruhe. She joined with hearing difficulties, such as concerts for and with deaf and documentary films. Hiroshi Ishii (US ) is a tenured the Institute of Animation at the Film Academy in Baden- children. associate professor of media arts and Württemberg in 2002. Golan Levin (US ). His work focuses on sciences at the MIT Media Lab. He Elisabeth Schimana (AT ) studied the language of interactivity – verbal, joined the MIT Media Laboratory in Ken Perlin (US ) Ken Perlin is a profes - electro-acoustics and experimental vocal and visual. Levin’s work has been October 1995 and founded the sor in the Department of Computer music at the Vienna University of Music exhibited, among other venues, at the Tangible Media Group to pursue a new Science at New York University. He and Performing Arts and musicology New Museum of Contemporary Art, vision of human-computer interaction was founding director of the Media and ethnology at the University of The Kitchen, the Neuberger Museum (HCI ): “Tangible Bits”. He received a Research Laboratory and also directed Vienna. She works as a noh singer, and the Whitney Biennial (all in New BE degree in electronic engineering, ME and Ph.D. in the NYU Center for Advanced Technol - performer, composer, radio artist and York), Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria computer engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan, in ogy from 1994 to 2004. His research artistic process manager in an elec - and many others. 1978, 1980 and 1992 respectively. interests include graphics, animation, tronic environment. She founded the IMA (Institute for Media user interfaces, science education and multimedia. Archeology) in 2005. Elaine Ng (HK/US ) is an independent Shu-Min Lin (US ). Born in Taipei, critic and curator based in Hong Kong China, Shu-Min Lin now resides, Ivan Tsupka (UA ) is an artist working in Andrey Smirnov (RU ) is an inter- and New York. From 2001 to 2002 she teaches and works both in New York a field of media art. Having a strong disciplinary artist, composer, performer, was the general manager of the Video - and Shanghai. He is a well-known classical painting background, he began instrument builder, programmer, author, tage . She is editor of the monograph holography and media artist. At to work on a computer-generated art curator and educator. He is a founder Dye-a-di-a-logue together with Ellen present, he is the President of Shang - and animation at the end of the 90s. He and director of the Theremin Center for Pau. She is also a contributing editor hai Zendai Himalayas Real Estate has participated in more than 40 exhi - Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State for Leonardo Electronic Almanac and Company Ltd. and the CEO of Shang - bitions and festivals of contemporary Conservatory and is the author of inter - co-publisher of Art Asia Pacific . hai Zendai Cultural & Creative Ent. Co., Ltd. The foremost art and since 1999 he has been a active performances and installations. project under his leadership is the Zendai Himalayas Center. member of the board of Kiev International Media Art Festival Sandrine von Klot (AT ) received her and Kiev Media Art Lab. Rob Young (UK ) is editor-at-large of master of architecture degree in 1996 Geetha Narayanan (IN ) is the founder The Wire magazine and a writer and in Los Angeles. She is a founding and director of Srishti. She has dedi - Boo Wong (US ) is head of the com - broadcaster who contributes to The member of the architectural platform cated her life to finding and establish - puter-generated imaging department Guardian , Uncut , Frieze , ArtReview Escapesphere. In 2003, von Klot ing new models of educational of the New York production house and Resonance FM . His books include established in private practice as Svk- institutions that are creative, synergis - Curious Pictures. Prior to working in illustrated biographies of the record architecture. Since 1999, teaching tic and original in their approach to digital production, Boo Wong spent labels Rough Trade (2006) and Warp assignments have taken von Klot to the learning. She is at present involved in a eight years immersed in the world of (2005) and Undercurrents: The Hidden Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, the Vienna University of radical overhaul of Srishti’s design modern dance. She earned a degree in Wiring Of Modern Music (2002). Technology, to Los Angeles and to the Linz University of Art. pedagogy, curriculum development and social responsibil - electrical engineering from California ity. She is also involved in a program that seeks to develop State University, Fullerton, CA . and train teachers for under-served communities. Prix Ars Electronica 2007 288 289 Jury [the next idea] Art and Technology Grant Media.Art.Research Award u19 – freestyle computing Digital Communities Tina Auer (AT ) has worked as a free - Dieter Daniels (DE ) has had numerous Sirikit Amann (AT) has studied politi - Andreas Hirsch (AT ) is a specialist in lance artist since 1994. Until 1996 she publications, multimedia projects and cal science, theater arts and econom - conceiving and engineering cultural was active as a member of the Con - exhibitions in the field of media art. He ics in Vienna, Munich and Boston. systems. He has completed two tained collective and Time’s Up. Her is professor of art history and media Since 1987 she has been working at decades of work for leading cultural fields of interest range from the func - theory at the Leipzig Academy of Visual the ÖKS (Austrian Cultural Service, organizations in the arts, theatre, tions and behavior of people in artifi - Art ( HGB ), co-editor of the online now Kulturkontakt) where she mainly music, film, literature and the media, cially established interactive situations publication Mediaartnet.org and since specializes in applications of new including conceptualizing and curating taken from everyday life, to the general 2005 director of the Ludwig Boltzmann media and ICT . She has participated in as well as developing and managing and specific use and abuse of all forms of visual