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● 07/07/2025

This year’s jury of the longest-running media arts prize had a taste for robotics and ritual: Prix Ars Electronica’s coveted Golden Nicas go to Thomas Kvam & Frode Oldereid’s towering robot idol, Requiem for an Exit (2024), Paula Gaetano Adi’s post-colonial Andes-crossing robot equine, Guanaquerx (2024), and Navid Navab & Garnet Willis’ robotically-prepared historic pipe organ, Organism (2024). Congratulations!

Prix Ars Electronica
● 31/03/2025
“In Edward Lorenz’s digital world, the values of those two extra digits might mean the difference between a clear day and a tornado.”
– Quanta physics staff writer Charlie Wood, recalling the weather simulation breakthrough that helped birth chaos theory. “When two runs of a simulation appeared to start out with one variable set to 0.214, for instance, the computer might actually be computing weather patterns seeded with 0.21431 and 0.21423,” writes Wood of Lorenz’s revelation that slight numerical variations have cascading effects in dynamic systems.
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