From 4725442b261d1cb6895852a9e0c1b522b1c66bc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: 46halbe <46halbe@berlin.ccc.de> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 12:05:29 +0000 Subject: committing page revision 1 --- updates/2010/prix-ars-electronica-2010.md | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 updates/2010/prix-ars-electronica-2010.md diff --git a/updates/2010/prix-ars-electronica-2010.md b/updates/2010/prix-ars-electronica-2010.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0d4834ea --- /dev/null +++ b/updates/2010/prix-ars-electronica-2010.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +title: Prix Ars Electronica 2010 +date: 2010-05-17 11:29:00 +updated: 2010-05-17 12:05:29 +author: frankro +tags: update, pressemitteilung + +You can create art and beauty with a computer. We are proud and happy to announce that the jury for the Digital Communities category of Prix Ars Electronica 2010 selected the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) for the Golden Nica. + + + +Since its founding days the CCC is an organization, where hackers, +artists and people interested in shaping the future and politics of the +new digital domain meet and cooperate. Never the stereotypical "hacker +club", the creation and facilitation of art and beauty has always been a +core aspect. + +The CCC is organized in dozens of decentralized local clubs, each is +running its own rooms for meeting, sharing, socializing and creative +work – a concept that recently got known to a wider audience as +Hackerspaces. With more than 2,300 members – mainly in the German +speaking countries – the club is the largest association of hackers and +digital creatives in Europe. With its wide network of local +hackerspaces, the CCC has been an inspiration for many other hackers, +makers and artists worldwide, who were encouraged to found their own +digital creative space in the real world. + +In the political sphere, the CCC is a cristalization point for a +broadening community of people whose daily life is increasingly being +supported but also dominated by technology. Its technical expertise +helped building the foundation for a number of groundbreaking decisions +of Germany's constitutional court. The most important ones were the ban +of voting computers in Germany, the new constitutional right to +integrity and confidentiality of computer systems which blocked the +government's wish to install trojan horse programs on suspects' +computers, and the repealing of the data retention laws. Club members +excert considerable influence on current digital policy debates like +those on privacy, copyright and net neutrality. + +An important aspect of the CCC's activities is the organization of large +events, that have evolved to be among the most important European +meetingpoints for everyone active in the digital domain. We will keep up +the good work! + +**Links:** [CCC +Regional](http://www.ccc.de/regional "CCC Regional")[Hackerspaces +Wiki](http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ "Hackerspaces Wiki")[CCC Events +Blog](http://events.ccc.de/ "CCC Events Blog")[Prix Ars Electronica +2010](http://www.aec.at/prix_history_de.php?year=2010 "CCC Events Blog") -- cgit v1.2.3