Documentation of the Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Lavishly illustrated and containing texts by the prize-winning artists and statements by the juries that singled them out for recognition, this catalog showcases the works honored by the Prix Ars Electronica 2021. The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition. Winners are awarded the coveted Golden Nica statuette. Ever CyberArts 2021 since its inception in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has been honoring creativity and inno- vativeness in the use of digital media. This year, experts from all over the world evaluated Prix Ars Electronica S+T+ARTS 3,158 submissions from 86 countries in four categories: Computer Animation, Artificial Intelligence & Life Art, Digital Musics & Sound Art, and the u19–create your world com - Prize ’21 petition for young people. The volume also provides insights into the achievements of the winners of the Isao Tomita Special Prize and the Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity. ars.electronica.art/prix STARTS Prize ’21 STARTS (= Science + Technology + Arts) is an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of technology and artistic practice. As part of this initiative, the STARTS Prize awards the most pioneering collaborations and results in the field of creativity 21 ’ and innovation at the intersection of science and technology with the arts. The STARTS Prize ‘21 of the European Commission was launched by Ars Electronica, BOZAR, Waag, INOVA+, T6 Ecosystems, French Tech Grande Provence, and the Frankfurt Book Fair. This Prize catalog presents the winners of the European Commission’s two Grand Prizes, which honor Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts, and more of the STARTS Prize ‘21 highlights. STARTS 272 pages, 532 illustrations Prix Prix Ars Electronica · CyberArts 2021 CyberArts ARS ELECTRONICA Art, Technology & Society CyberArts 2021 Prix Ars Electronica S+T+ARTS Prize’21 ARS ELECTRONICA Art, Technology & Society Gerfried Stocker · Markus Jandl CyberArts 2021 Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Computer Animation · Artificial Intelligence & Life Art · Digital Musics & Sound Art Isao Tomita Special Prize · Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity u19–create your world STARTS Prize’21 Grand Prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts Contents Prix Ars Electronica 2021 8 Prix Ars Electronica 2021 50 I can’t remember a time Gerfried Stocker, Markus Jandl I didn’t need you 12 Prix Ars Electronica & Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Hannes Leopoldseder— 52 Mosaic A Symbiosis Imge Özbilge and Sine Özbilge Christine Schöpf 54 The Deep Listener 14 Hannes Leopoldseder Jakob Kudsk Steensen Timelessly Ahead of His Time 56 TRUE NORTH Gerfried Stocker, Eiji Han Shimizu Diethard Schwarzmair 58 Vastum 15 Time Journey Through L.A. Raeven Digital Revolution 60 Warm Worlds and Otherwise With and by Hannes Leopoldseder Anna Bunting-Branch 62 Why can’t we do this IRL? Megan Broadmeadow Computer Animation 26 The Re-enchantment of Humanism Artificial Intelligence & Life Art Statement of the Computer Animation Jury 66 Im/Material Infrastructures Statement of the Artificial Golden Nica Intelligence & Life Art Jury 32 When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest Golden Nica Guangli Liu 72 Cloud Studies Forensic Architecture Awards of Distinction 36 AIVA Awards of Distinction Veneta Androva 76 The Museum of Edible Earth 38 Opera masharu Erick Oh 78 TX-1 Honorary Mentions tranxxeno lab / Adriana Knouf 40 $75,000 Honorary Mention Moïse Togo 80 AIELSON 42 Chimes Era #1.2: the Seat in Judgment Paola Torres Núñez del Prado Paul Jacques Yves Guilbert 82 Baitul Ma’mur: House of Angels 44 Dirtscraper Joe Davis, Sarah Khan Peter Burr 84 Bricolage 46 Enter Full Screen Nathan Thompson, Guy Ben-Ary, Wojtek Ziemilski Sebastian Diecke 48 Frame Wave 86 Capture MSHR Paolo Cirio Contents Prix Ars Electronica 2021 88 Compasses 124 Forest UnderSound Allison Parrish Tosca Terán 90 PL’AI 126 Music for Krügerrand Špela Petrič Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard 92 SCENT 128 Organscape Alan Kwan Xoán-Xil López 94 Slave Rebellion Reenactment 130 PROTO Dread Scott Holly Herndon, Mathew Dryhurst 96 Sound for Fungi. Homage to 132 Recurrent Morphing Radio Indeterminacy · Theresa Schubert Interspecifics 98 The Cleanroom Paradox 134 [re]:generativ Felix Lenz, Angela Neubauer, Maxime Corbeil-Perron Eszter Zwickl 136 residencia o contingencia 100 The Transparency of Randomness Emilio Gordo Mathias Gartner, Vera Tolazzi 138 Subnormal Europe 102 UNBORN0x9 Óscar Escudero & Belenish Moreno-Gil Shu Lea Cheang, Ewen Chardronnet / 140 The Home Future Baby Production Jackie Zhou, Annie Saunders 142 Vis.[un]necessary force_4 Digital Musics & Sound Art Luz María Sánchez 106 A Pandemic Didn’t Stop the Sound Isao Tomita Special Prize Statement of the Digital Musics & Sound Art Jury 144 Statement of the Digital Musics & Sound Art Jury Golden Nica 146 Apotome 112 Convergence Khyam Allami, Counterpoint Alexander Schubert Awards of Distinction Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity 116 A Father’s Lullaby Rashin Fahandej 150 Ars Electronica Award for 118 Convergence Digital Humanity Douglas McCausland 154 Branch Magazine: A Sustainable and Just Internet for All Honorary Mentions Climate Action Tech 120 Chosho Hakkei in Rittor 157 In a Small Room Base—HPL ver KyungJin Jeong evala 122 Deconstruction Mariam Gviniashvili Contents Prix Ars Electronica 2021 u19–create your world 178 The 2020 Rise Up Johannes Rass, Julian Pixel Schmiederer, Gregor Franz 160 Gaps and Solutions 179 The Click Statement of the Julia Scheiwein, Zara Dineva, u19–create your world Jury Anna Zoglauer, Caroline Bär, Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Young Professionals Versuchsanstalt Golden Nica 166 re-wire Young Creatives Felix Senk, Emil Steixner, Max-Jakob 180 digital mirror Beer, Höhere Graphische Bundes- Michael Zaminer Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt 181 Black Day Students at MS Lehen 168 INCERT 182 Reunited Isa Mutevelic, Simon Effenberger, Clara Weiss David Stummer, Höhere Graphische 183 Juck uf Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt Students at 169 Urban Green: Bamboo Bicycle Bundesgymnasium Dornbirn Angelina Djukic, Lukas Gabesam, 184 Das unmögliche Computerspiel Japleen Khurana, Alina Schweighofer, Students of class 1B at RG/ORG Euregio HTBLVA Ferlach antonkriegergasse 170 dine. 185 Benjamin’s Recycling Centre Tariel Immler, Alexander Fetz, Daniel Benjamin Hölzl Hiebeler, Jakob Defranceschi, 186 Upcycling Stadt Mathias Johannsen, David Graf, Lisa Marits HTL Dornbirn 187 Kranfahrzeug auf vier Ketten— 171 Durch den Wind LEGO Technic Jasmin Schlögl Leopold Kastler 172 Future / just a dream? 188 Erster Plastikschlucker der Welt Leonhard Gaigg Emilio Deutsch 173 Liebe ist kein Spielfilm 189 Little Dancing Stars: Alle im Takt Sabine Wimmer Sarah Hölzl 174 Realitätsverlust Fabian Ahammer / Wenzelhumer 190 Jury Prix Ars Electronica 2021 175 Silence Felix Zorn-Pauli 176 smartLantern—die smarte Straßenlaterne Christoph Steiner, Moritz Vögl, Simon Schmidmayr, Jan Reinsperger, HTL Rennweg 177 Sprechende Teslaspule Nikolaus Juch Contents STARTS Prize’21 Innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology and the ARTS 200 STARTS—Science, Technology 236 The Tides Within Us and the ARTS Marshmallow Laser Feast, Introduction Fraunhofer MEVIS, Natan Sinigaglia 204 Making the Invisible Visible Statement of the STARTS Prize ’21 Jury STARTS Prize ’21 Nominations STARTS Prize ’21 238 An Olfactory Biopolitics Nairobi Grand Prize Coltrane McDowell Artistic Exploration 239 Constructing Connectivity Jessica Smarsch 210 Oceans in Transformation 240 Extendable Ears Territorial Agency—John Palmesino Sheng-Wen Lo and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog 241 Face Lab Håkan Lidbo STARTS Prize ’21 242 Genetics Gym Grand Prize Adam Peacock Innovative Collaboration 243 Glacier’s Lament Jiabao Li 214 Remix el Barrio, Food Waste 244 In a Small Room Biomaterial Makers KyungJin Jeong Anastasia Pistofidou, Marion Real 245 In Event of Moon Disaster and The Remixers at Fab Lab Barcelona, Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta IaaC 246 Lovewear Ivan Parati, Emanuela Corti, Witsense STARTS Prize ’21 247 MycoMythologies Honorary Mentions Saša Spačal 248 Para-optic-8 218 A Lighter Delicacy Anastasia Alekhina Sorawut Kittibanthorn 249 Shapes and Ladders: Battles of Bias 220 Cloud Studies and Bureaucracy Forensic Architecture Ani Liu, Michelle Lim, John Ahloy, 222 Data Garden Andrea Li Grow Your Own Cloud 250 Silencing The Virus 224 ELEVENPLAY x Rhizomatiks Lily Hunter Green “border 2021” 251 So far the Skies are silent. MIKIKO, ELEVENPLAY, Quadrature Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi, 252 Symbiosia Rhizomatiks, Takayuki Fujimoto, evala Thijs Biersteker 226 mEat me 253 The [Uncertain] Four Seasons Theresa Schubert Tim Devine 228 On View 254 The Cleanroom Paradox Ania Catherine, Dejha Ti Felix Lenz, Angela Neubauer, 230 Project Habitate Eszter Zwickl Yuning Chan, Tom Hartley, Yishan Qin 255 TheirTube 232 The Growing Pavilion Tomo Kihara Company New Heroes / Biobased Creations 256 STARTS Prize ’21 234 The Living Light Jury Nova Innova 258 STARTS Prize ’21 International Advisors Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Gerfried Stocker, Markus Jandl In 2021, COVID-19 continued to profoundly affect switched over to online voting for their juries to our lives, and Ars Electronica was not spared, save costs, Prix Ars Electronica has, from the either: In February 2021, Hannes Leopoldseder, very beginning, placed importance on bringing founder of the Prix Ars Electronica and co-founder the jurors to Linz for