About Prix Arts numériques

The Prix Arts numériques (Digital Arts Prize) is an annual award created in 2025 by the Fondation Etrillard in partnership with the Académie des beaux-arts. The Fondation Etrillard is a Geneva-based family foundation whose mission is to shine a light on the relevance of our European cultural heritage in today’s world. As part of its sponsorship activities, the Fondation has created several awards in the fields of craftsmanship, restoration, and artistic creation. After the Prix du Patrimoine Naturel (Natural Heritage Prize) and the ‘Âmes d’OEuvres’ Craft Competition, the Prix Arts numériques Fondation Etrillard Académie des beaux-arts is its third award. The Académie des beaux-arts (French Academy of Fine Arts) is one of the five academies that make up the Institut de France (Institute of France), which also includes the Académie française, the Académie des sciences, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. As part of its mission to support creative work, the Académie des beaux-arts awards a number of prizes to emerging and established artists. The aim of the Prix Arts numériques Fondation Etrillard - Académie des beaux-arts is to showcase the work of a digital artist by rewarding a recent work of digital art that echoes the disciplines represented at the Académie des beaux-arts, that is, painting, sculpture, architecture, engraving and drawing, music, cinema, photography and choreography.  

Eligibility

• The Prize will be awarded to a work of digital art, i.e. one whose creative process makes use of digital technologies (code, programmes, interactive, generative, behavioural or algorithmic technologies) and is intrinsically hybrid, combining different types of knowledge, methods and modes of expression. For example, the work may make use of robotics, internet networks, augmented, mixed or virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and so on. • The work may be purely made up of material elements, or purely digital, or mixed. • Non-artistic digital mediation programs or tools are not eligible. • The work has been created between 2021 and 2024 and shown at least once in a public presentation. Artists may not submit an application with a work still in progress or never shown, nor may they submit several works. • The work may be part of a public or private collection at the time of application, provided that its loan for a future exhibition or presentation is possible. In this case, the applicant must declare the possibility of a loan from this collection in the context of the Prix Arts numériques at the time of application. The Prize is open to digital artists or groups of artists of any nationality, resident in Europe, with no age limit. The countries of residence eligible for the Prize are Switzerland, France, the countries of the European Union, as well as Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Artists may apply alone or as part of a group. In the case of a group application: • The group will appoint a representative (designated member) to act as liaison with the Académie des beauxarts and the Fondation Etrillard. • All the artists in the applicant group must meet the European residency criterion. • An artist who is a member of a collective may not apply individually in addition to the collective’s participation. The applicant must be an established artist with proven professional experience and the author of several works at the time of application.  

Submission Requirements

• Curriculum vitae • Portfolio including at least 3 (three) past artistic creations that have been produced and distributed • Statement of intent explaining the concept and operation of the work, and emphasizing its link with the purpose of the Prize (maximum 3000 characters, so around two pages) • Photos of the work, if possible, in a public display situation • Video (one or more) of the work • Technical file of the work: dimensions, description of technologies used, layout plan • Past and future confirmed venues of presentation  

How to Apply

Online Application  

Program Benefits & Awards:

The Prix Arts numériques prize fund of €20,000 (twenty thousand euros) will be paid to the artist or artistic collective behind the winning work. The Prize is awarded annually.  

Selection & Notification:

Entry Fee:

None  

Location:

France  

Timeline:

Application Deadline: 30 April 2025  

Website Link: https://www.fondationetrillard.ch/en/prix-arts-numeriques