I was nominated for an award in the Interactive Art category of PRIX ARS
ELECTRONICA.
This is the letter from Ars Electronica (with jury member name removed):
..on Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 03:59:00PM +0000, Prixars Interactive wrote:
Your work The Transparency Grenade has been nominated by our Jury member XXXX for the
Prix Ars Electronica 2014 / Interactive Art category - CONGRATULATIONS!
This year's PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA is celebrating it's 28th anniversary within 5 categories,
5 Golden Nicas and awards totalling more than EUR 60.000.
We would be happy if you could submit in our competition.
Find more information about Prix Ars Electronica here:
http://prixars.aec.at/en
This was my reply:
Dear Prixars,
Thank you very much for your email. That is good news indeed.
Sadly however I must decline your invitation.
I'm lucky enough to already have three awards from Prix Ars, including a Golden Nica in the same
category (shared with Daniil Vasiliev). As such, I feel not only that I've had my share, but that
it's in the interests of emerging artists (and the Media Arts scene as a whole) that I leave the
competition open to others.
I'd appreciate if you could pass this on to XXXX, alongside my warmest regards.
Kindly,
--
Julian Oliver
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