Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition
5th Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition !!! AWARD SUM 6.000 Euros !!!
28th-30th September 2011
Tampere, Finland
http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia
Competition deadline: June 15th 2011
The Ubimedia competition seeks to broaden our understanding of where and how ubiquitous media will influence our future life. We are looking for disruptive artistic visions as well as clever near-to-market solutions off the beaten tracks! This includes any range of innovative ubimedia, pervasive, or ambient products and services. The Ubimedia Award is a highly interdisciplinary competition and we invite Designers, Computer Scientists, Artists, Economists and Engineers to take a stand on the following questions with their entries:
* What is the particular aesthetic experience opened up by the rise of ubiquitous and ambient media?
* What constitutes the specific intelligence that drives future media environments?
* How will location- and context-aware media services change our social life?
* How will our future lives look like in the era of ubiquitous computation, and how can society benefit from these advanced technologies?
The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award is 6 000€.
The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.
Valid competition entries include:
* Pervasive and ubiquitous games
* Ambient installations
* Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
* Business models and management strategies
* Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
* Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
* Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
* Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
* Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
* Ambient television
* Any other inspiring work in the broad context of ubiquitous media
All ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient media products, services or prototypes which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2010 are eligible to take part in the competition.
Please check out the website http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia for entry forms and current information.
