Index

Contents

8 Prix Ars Electronica 2026
Gerfried Stocker, Markus Jandl

10 Prix Ars Electronica & STARTS Prize’26—Statistics
Emiko Ogawa

Art

New Animation Art

17 New Animation: A Critical Intervention
Jury Statement

Golden Nica
22 Deer Hunter
Andrew Herzog

Awards of Distinction
26 Aferrado
Esteban Azuela

28 Dancing Plague
2girls1comp

Honorary Mentions
30 Ancestors
Hanna Haaslahti
32 Constellation 2
Nils Benedikt Fischer
34 Endangered Gestures
Bruce Eesly
36 Exhibition³
Sabine Hertig, Dirk Koy
38 FOREVER MEETINGS
Sarah Rothberg
40 In Writing “Hurrah for Freedom”:
Cinema and History
Jungwoo LEE
42 Le Miroir
Camille Sauer
44 MEGATRASHWANNABEBIGSTARxD
Elisa Deutloff, Ava Leandra Kleber
46 Micro-Nano Landscape
Suxuan Jiang
48 Ping Pong
Tianji Yu
50 Spray and Pray
Veneta Androva
52 The Innocence of Unknowing
Ryat Yezbick, Milo Talwani

Interactive Art +

55 Technologies of Relation: Interacting with Crisis
Jury Statement

Golden Nica
60 A Cartography of Genocide: Israel’s Conduct
in Gaza Since October 2023
Forensic Architecture

Awards of Distinction
64 CHIMERIA
Shin Hanagata

66 Echoes of the Abyss
Robertina Šebjanič

Honorary Mentions
68 A Sexual History of the Internet
Mindy Seu
70 Brute Force
Vinzenz Aubry, Robert Schnüll
72 Chronicles from In-between 495 to 570 nm
Kasia Molga
74 Image Syncers
Nina Davies
76 Inhale Exhale
Ecologies that Refuse to Behave
Fiona McDonald
78 Mij (The Fog)
Rojava Center for Democratic Technologies
80 No Bird
UJOO+LIMHEEYOUNG
82 Picocosmos
Edy Fung
84 The Game of Whispers
Parag K. Mital
86 They Who Saw Nothing but Beauty
Hussein Shikha
88 to hurt for a thought
Julia Vollmer
90 Xenocene: A Manifesto in Motion
Claudix Vanesix 

Digital Humanity

93 Can Technology Care? Reclaiming Digital and Planetary Commons
Jury Statement

Golden Nica
98 Open Digital Infrastructure for Shared Histories Cultural Heritage
SummitShare and Shared Histories Team

Awards of Distinction
102 Data Workers’ Inquiry
Milagros Miceli

104 R€¥€R$€
Laura Colmenares Guerra

Honorary Mentions
106 Adventures of the Witch’s Garden
Mardiya Siba
108 AI’s Silent Omissions
Nozomu Kubota
110 Built to Go Live: Taking the Signal Back Blokada INFO
Blokada INFO
112 Harvesting Climate Action (HCA)
Ling Tan
114 Margi—India’s one stop against online harms
Nidhi Sudhan
116 The Planetary Compendium: Case Studies on Planetary Governance
Anahat Kaur, Arianna Smaron
118 Repeat as necessary: Performance Operating System
Operator
120 Sabot—Riding the Algorithm
Júlia Nueno Guitart
122 Terra ex Machina
Hagit Keysar, Ariel Caine
124 The Animated Book of Genocides: An animated VR experience Girl Earth Fire Time and Between the Wall and the Sides
Dana Mashoian Walrath, Dylan Valley
126 The Sculptures of Touch
Hsin-Chien Huang
128 Virtual Museum of Historical Memory
National Centre for Historical Memory of Colombia (CNMH) with Juan Cortés

u19—create your world

130 Crises, AI and Screentime
Jury Statement

Young Professionals
age 14–19

Golden Nica
138 Reverse Rendering
Jannis Berner

Awards of Distinction
140 Textile Interpretationen ausgewählter Kunstwerke
Yves Lilian Franzen

142 Der Rückgang des Gletschers Pasterze
Romina Adler

Honorary Mentions
144 0,003s
BG BRG Purkersdorf
145 Digital Intimacy
Yogi Fraisl, Philip Hübner
146 Gaussian Trip
Gabriel Berger, Valerian Hobel
147 Keep Looking
Felix Schiefer
148 Meine Hülle
Magda Pirzl
149 My Mistake
Mia Hadjwasiri, Emilia Werner
150 PowAirLoop
Der autonome Akkuwechsel für Drohnen
Michael Erber, Richard Pruckmair, Mathias Waltner, Nino Wieland
151 Verloren zwischen Rollen
Merjem Alekic, Arezu Dienmohammadi, Sarah Ismail
152 WER BIN ICH
Class 5MMA, HTL1 Construction and Design Linz
153 Zusammen zurück ins Leben
Class P8 of the Urfahr Polytechnic School 

Young Creatives
up to 14 years

u14 Prize
156 Instabiles Zuhause
Demian Ivanov

u14 Awards of Distinction
157 Heck Meck—Hass Weg
Selma Hofstett, Rosa Wachauer
158 SIE
Integrative Learning Workshop Brigittenau
u14 Honorary Mention
159 The Future School
Leopold Kastler
u12 Prize
160 12,5 Quadratmeter Platz für ein Auto, oder...
Class 1b at Kettenbrücke Middle School in Innsbruck

u12 Award of Distinction
161 PLANT City
Noah Finn Wichelhaus
u12 Honorary Mention
162 Wenn ein Planet erwacht
Levin Du, Mila Du, Chenming Wu, Shirley Wu

u10 Prize
163 Halbgötter
Amalia Weisenhorn

u10 Award of Distinction
164 einzigARTiges St. Andrä unsere Stadt aus Sicht der Kinder
Kindergarten St. Andrä erleben—staunen—entdecken

u10 Honorary Mention
165 Save the World!
Suren Leo Paydar

Social Impact

AI for Social Impact Initiative

169 Built from Within: AI That Reaches Where It’s Needed Most
Jury Statement

Grand Prize
172 The Afiya AI (Artificial Intelligence) Solution An AI-Powered Ecosystem for Migrant Health Equity
Shadi Henchiri

174 Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Improve Pregnancy Risk Detection, Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes
HelpMum

Award of Distinction
178 Early Crop Pests and Diseases Detection Solar-Powered AI Technology
Farmer Lifeline, Esther Kimani

180 Global Level of Confidence
Antimetric Institute

Innovation & Technology

S+T+ARTS Prize’26

185 STARTS—Science, Technology, and the ARTS

188 STARTS 2026: A Compass for Troubled Times
Jury Statement

S+T+ARTS Prize’26
Grand Prize—Artistic Exploration
194 Mechanical Kurds
Hito Steyerl

S+T+ARTS Prize’26
Grand Prize—Innovative Collaboration
198 Office for Tree Migration (OTM)
Agnes Meyer-Brandis 

S+T+ARTS Prize’26
Honorary Mentions
202 Building for Quantum
Marina Otero Verzier, Manuel Correa
204 Creative Intelligence: Reimagining
Supercomputing through Artistic Research
Barcelona Supercomputing Center—
Centro Nacional de Supercomputación
(BSC—CNS)
206 Drumming for Love
Erzë Dinarama
208 Morphogenic Angels: Chapter 2
(Alchemy of Perspectives) Demo
Keiken
210 Ocean Futurisms
Inferstudio, TBA21, and
Radical Ocean Futures
212 Origen, A Journey into the Heart
of the Amazon Rainforest
Emilia Sánchez Chiquetti
214 Picoplanktonics
Living Room Collective— Andrea Shin Ling,
Vincent Hui, Nicholas Hoban, Clayton Lee
216 The Call
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst
218 The Future Conditional:
00_To Create Love With Dry Eyes
Romi Ron Morrison
220 The Singing Textiles: Weaving Life
Paola Torres Núñez del Prado
S+T+ARTS Prize’26
Nominations
222 Body As Archive: Woman Life Freedom
Hamdel Futurist Collaborative
223 Cortical Echoes: An Interface
for Living Computation
Amy Karle, Eduardo Reck Miranda
224 Direito à Sombra (The Right to Shade)
Mari Nagem, Thiago Hersan
225 Drinking Brecht
sister sylvester
226 Flynn
Marcin Ratajczyk, Chiara Kristler,
Malpractice
227 Fossilized Futures
Robertina Šebjanič, Marco Barotti
228 FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
Feifei Zhou, Anna Tsing
229 Harvesting Climate Action
Ling Tan
230 Holy Shit
Caroline Barneaud, Stefan Kaegi
231 Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream
Superflux
232 PET: Projected Emotional Technologies
Arvida Byström
233 Slop Evader
Tega Brain
234 Studies for
evala, Sony Group Corporation
235 SymbiOcean
Rasa Weber
236 Terp 360: Embodied AI
for Expressive Sign Language
Signvrse
237 The Data of Coca
Plano Negativo
239 THE DELUSION
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
240 Untangler
Peace Olatunji
Jury members
242 Prix Ars Electronica
244 New Animation Art
245 Interactive Art +
246 Digital Humanity
247 u19–create your world
248 AI for Social Impact Initiative
249 Advisory Board 2026
Digital Humanity &
AI for Social Impact Initiative
250 S+T+ARTS Prize’26 Jury
251 S+T+ARTS Prize ’26 Advisors


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