People deserve to know that the prize exists, whether they are professional artists or not.
IMHO, the stress inflicted upon artistically-inclined LWers by the implied hostility in your first comment outweighs whatever benefit you could counterfactually have gotten out of the ten seconds you "wasted" reading this post, and probably also any benefit that may have accrued from a reduction in such artist-related posts in the future in accordance with your expressed desire.
Or, in other words: indeed you should not be such a grump.
http://www.aec.at/collide/
Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is the new international competition for digital artists to win a residency at CERN the world's largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. It is the first prize to be announced as part of the new Collide@CERN artists residency programme initiated by the laboratory.
The residency is in two parts - with an initial two months at CERN, where the winning artist will have a specially dedicated science mentor from the world famous science lab to inspire him/her and his/her work. The second part will be a month with the Futurelab team and mentor at Ars Electronica Linz with whom the winner will develop and make new work inspired by the CERN residency.