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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
SonicWireSculptor
In its simplest form SonicWireSculptor is a novel 3-D drawing tool and a unique musical instrument, but perhaps most important—it’s just fun to play with. The project started out as a personal instrument for Pitaru to perform on. During concerts, audience members often inquired whether they could experience the tool first-hand. This encouraged Pitaru to transform the software into an immersive public installation. The installation included enhancements to the original work, allowing a wider range of users to intuitively interact with the environment.
Gallery visitors would enter a dark room with a surround-sound system, a projection and a unique drawing station. Opening nights for these exhibits would often double as performance and workshop events where the audience and Pitaru explore the tool together. Participants would be encouraged to add their work to a steadily growing collection of beautiful and surprising sonic sculptures. Today, this collection includes work from professional illustrators, poets, 9-year-olds and their parents, musicians of various genres, as well as Pitaru’s own personal compositions.
Gallery visitors would enter a dark room with a surround-sound system, a projection and a unique drawing station. Opening nights for these exhibits would often double as performance and workshop events where the audience and Pitaru explore the tool together. Participants would be encouraged to add their work to a steadily growing collection of beautiful and surprising sonic sculptures. Today, this collection includes work from professional illustrators, poets, 9-year-olds and their parents, musicians of various genres, as well as Pitaru’s own personal compositions.
Amit Pitaru (US), born in 1974 in Jerusalem, is an artist, musician, designer and educator. He writes software tools to facilitate his work and research in audio-visual arts and interaction/usability design. Pitaru has exhibited and performed concerts worldwide. As an educator, Pitaru develops curriculums that focus on the coupling of computation-design and creative thought process. He currently teaches at New York University’s ITP and Cooper Union. Pitaru is a recipient of various prestigious awards, including an Ars Electronica Prix Honorary Mention and Tokyo Type Directors Club awards.