Prix Selection

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Event Type:

exhibition

Start Date:

21 May 2004 - 18 Jun 2004

Hours:

tues - saturday 12-6 pm

Venue:

Eyebeam

Prix Selection offers a look into the development and history of interactive art. The exhibition will present eight award winning works in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica, the world's oldest and most important competition in the cyberarts. This presentation features an extraordinarily diverse selection of installations and not only reflects the history of this competition but also gives a historical account of the development of interactive media art as a whole.

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Projects: America's Finest, Inter-discommunication Machine, Interactive Plant Growing, Landscape One, n-cha(n)t, The Legible City, Think about the people now, Videoplace
People: Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, David Rokeby, Jeffrey Shaw, Katrin Hinrichsen, Kazuhiko Hachiya, Luc Courchesne, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Myron Krueger, Paul Sermon
Tags: cyber art, interactive art, Prix Selection

Interactive Plant Growing

Designing interfaces between vegetal and device-related systems, between man and machine, is one of the greatest challenges of interactive technology. No differently than in the industrial context, here too, the use of intuitive and user-friendly control tendencies is supremely decisive. With Interactive Plant Growing, Sommerer and Mignonneau demonstrate an artwork of this species. Activating the plant triggers an image-generating impulse. This calls for neither the preparing of a symbolically conveyed action, nor the designing of ergonomically-formed pieces of equipment to make its control possible. The juxtaposing of the real plant and a computer-generated version of nature latently recalls explosive themes that arose when discussing the use of research results in the fields of natural science and technology.

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n-cha(n)t

n-cha(n)t is an audio visual installation that allows participants to eavesdrop on or infiltrate the conversational patterns of a networked community of computers. Inspiration for the work came from a strong and somewhat inexplicable desire to hear a community of computers speaking together: chattering amongst themselves, musing, intoning chants. n-cha(n)t was exhibited as part of Prix Selection at Eyebeam Atelier.

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Landscape One

Four walls of a space are "painted", with video projectors, into a single photo realistic 360º landscape representing a public garden. The space, set in Montreal's Mont-Royal Park, is being visited by real and virtual characters. If the virtual characters appear to come and go in the garden, real visitors will need help to walk in and explore. For this they have to make contact with one of the virtual character by selecting, using voice or touch, questions or comments from imposed sets. Questions on, for example, where they are, what is around, where one can go from here will engage a conversation leading to some form of relationship. The exchange may be cut short with everyone going back to their business or it may reach a point where visitors will convince a character to lead them somewhere. In such case, visitors are being pulled through the landscape after their virtual guide and the whole room appears to be moving in this direction.

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The Legible City

In The Legible City the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that is constituted by computer-generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the streets. Using the ground plans of Manhattan; the existing architecture of these cities is completely replaced by textual formations written and compiled by Dirk Groeneveld. Travelling through a city of words is consequently a journey of reading; choosing the path one takes is a choice of texts as well as their spontaneous juxtapositions and conjunctions of meaning.

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