A new international competition for digital artists, across all fields and including musicians, Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN, is inviting applications to win a residency at the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. The winning artist will receive ten thousand Euros, along with expenses.

The prize marks a three-year cultural partnership and creative collaboration between CERN and Ars Electronica, and is aimed at bringing together artists and scientists, and in their own words, ‘creating new dimensions in digital arts, inspired by the ideas, engineering and science generated at CERN’. The work will be produced by the winning artist in collaboration with the transdisciplinary expertise of the FutureLab team at Ars Electronica.

The residency is in two parts — with an initial two months at CERN, where the winning artist will have a dedicated science mentor from the renowned lab to inspire the creativity of the artist. The second part will be a month with the Futurelab team and mentor at Ars Electronica Linz, Austria, with whom the winner will develop and make new work inspired by the CERN residency.

This final work will be showcased both at the Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN, in Geneva and at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.

The deadline for submission is 31 October 2011.

For more information see:

www.aec.at/prix/collide

To browse last year’s digital music and sound art category winners visit:

www.aec.at/prix/en/digital-music

Pictured: Prix Ars digital musics and sound art prize winner of 2011, Norwegian Jana Winderen