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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.
when laughter trips at the threshold of the divine
Osman Khan,
Kim Beck
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“When laughter trips at the threshold of the divine” explores and subverts the public use of a public space, exploring the architectural folly through the simplest of interactive concepts, the switch, as represented by the door. With equal nods to Minimalism’s aesthetics and mega-consumerism’s spectacle, the project places a fully functioning automatic sliding door in the middle of a public park, offering the everyday as a folly for play, re-experience and reflection on neutered thresholds.
Links: www.osmankhan.com
Links: www.osmankhan.com
Osman Khan (US) is an artist interested in using technology to construct engines that help create artifacts for social criticism and aesthetic expression. His work explores certain themes to see how technology fabricates as well as subverts our understanding of identity, consumerism, media and public space through interactive installations and site-specific interventions. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Art.
Kim Beck (US). Using images of architecture and landscape, Kim Beck makes drawings, prints, paintings and installations that survey peripheral and suburban spaces. Her work urges a reconsideration of the built environment—the peculiar street signs, gas-station banners, overgrown weeded lots and self-storage buildings—bringing the banal and everyday into focus.
Kim Beck (US). Using images of architecture and landscape, Kim Beck makes drawings, prints, paintings and installations that survey peripheral and suburban spaces. Her work urges a reconsideration of the built environment—the peculiar street signs, gas-station banners, overgrown weeded lots and self-storage buildings—bringing the banal and everyday into focus.