The Fondation Etrillard and the Académie des beaux-arts are launching the Prix Arts numériques (Digital Arts Prize). This is the first time that digital art has entered the French Academy of Fine Arts.
Open to candidates of all nationalities living in Europe, with no age limit, this new prize will be awarded each year for a recent digital artwork that resonates with the artistic disciplines represented at the Academy. This collaboration between the French Academy of Fine Arts and the Foundation is part of a desire to promote digital art as an artistic discipline in its own right, extending the history of the arts into the modern age of new technologies. Interdisciplinarity and dialogue between tradition and new media are thus at the heart of the Prize.
Following a call for entries and the selection of three finalists, the jury will choose one winning work. The prize, which recognises the artist's career and work, will be worth €20,000.
Contact:
Raphaëlle Sabouraud
+41 78 337 82 27 / +41 22 318 59 50
raphaelle.sabouraud@fondationetrillard.com
Eligible work:
- Digital artwork, whatever the medium used (AI, generative art, net art, robotics, mapping, virtual reality...)
- Existing work: the artist submits a work created between 2021 and 2024 and publicly exhibited
- Work that echoes one or more of the Academy's disciplines: painting, sculpture, architecture, engraving and drawing, music, cinema, photography and choreography.
Eligible artists:
- Artists or artistic groups with proven professional experience
- No age limit
- All nationalities, provided they are resident in Europe (see list of countries in the competition rules)
"This new Digital Arts Prize aims to become a major award in the field of new media in France and Switzerland, and more generally in Europe. It is part of the Fondation Etrillard's mission to build bridges between the different arts, while reconciling our cultural heritage with today's creative output. It is an honour to collaborate with the Académie des beaux-arts on this prize and to explore digital art, an art form that is in direct contact with contemporary issues and whose form is constantly being renewed".
Miguel Pérez de Guzman, Managing Director of the Fondation Etrillard
"Digital art opens up new and exciting possibilities. It is very stimulating to welcome this new artistic discipline as part of the Académie des beaux-arts' prizes, thanks to the proposal of the Fondation Etrillard, which I would like to thank for this wonderful initiative."
Laurent Petitgirard, Permanent Secretary of the Académie des beaux-arts
Miguel Pérez de Guzman © Photo: Alexis de la Mure / Laurent Petitgirard © Photo: Yann Arthus-Bertrand