ARS Electronica PRIX

Os vencedores do ARS Electronica PRIX já forma anunciados e estão no link indicado. Fiquei muito feliz em ter participado do juri da categoria Digital Communities que deu o Golden Nica ao Overmundo. Vejam abaixo os vencedores nas oito categorias.

COMPUTER ANIMATION / FILM / VFX
Codehunters / Ben Hibon (UK ) / BLINK PRODUCTIONS

Ben Hibon’s Codehunters is an action-packed, apocalyptic work of animation. It’s set in the distant future in the slums of Lhek, a Far Eastern city that’s being plunged into chaos.

DIGITAL MUSICS
Reverse Simulation Music / Masahiro Miwa (JP) / IAMAS
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~mmiwa/

Mashiro Miwa’s Reverse Simulation Music is based on composition structures developed by computer and then played by musicians, performers or mechanical devices.

HYBRID ART
SymbioticA (AU)
www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au

Located at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory dedicated to the research, learning and critique of life sciences. SymbioticA is the first research laboratory of its kind, in that it enables artists to engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department.

INTERACTIVE ART
Park View Hotel / Ashok Sukumaran (IN)
http://0ut.in/parkviewhotel

Ashok Sukumaran’s Park View Hotel opens up a dialog between human beings and architecture. The setting is the César Chavez Plaza and the adjacent Fairmont Hotel in downtown San José.

DIGITAL COMMUNITIES
Overmundo (BR)
www.overmundo.com.br

Overmundo was developed by Hermano Vianna, Alexandre Youssef, Ronaldo Lemos and José Marcelo Zacchi and is both a community as well as a software tool. The Web 2.0 platform focuses on Brazilian cultures in all their diversity and complexity.

u19 – freestyle computing
VoIP-Wiki / Daniel Robinig, Manuel Salzmann, Matthäus Spindelböck (AT)
http://projects.htl-klu.at/Projekt_0607/pr5dhi09/Internet/index.html

VoIP-Wikiis a voice-over IP system that can be used for a variety of different purposes. For instance, it makes it possible to acoustically access information in a wiki system like Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. The voice connection is made either via voice-over IP, cell phone or landline.