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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.
Nabaz'mob - Opera for 100 smart rabbits
100 Nabaztag smart rabbits play an opera together specially composed by Antoine Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Birgé. Inviting John Cage, Steve Reich, Conlon Nancarrow and György Ligeti, this musical and choreographic score in three movements, transmitted via wi-fi, plays on the tension between the orchestral ensemble and the individual voices to create a strong and involved showpiece. This opera questions the issues of working together, organization, decision and control, which are increasingly central and difficult in our contemporary world.
Schmitt and Birgé are respectively the behavior designer and the sound designer of the Nabaztag rabbits, constructed by Violet. They have chosen to twist the industrial object into an artwork in which the choreography of the ears, the play of light and the hundred small loudspeakers hidden in the stomachs of each rabbit create a composition with three voices built on time-delay and repetition, programming and disrespect for rules.
Schmitt and Birgé are respectively the behavior designer and the sound designer of the Nabaztag rabbits, constructed by Violet. They have chosen to twist the industrial object into an artwork in which the choreography of the ears, the play of light and the hundred small loudspeakers hidden in the stomachs of each rabbit create a composition with three voices built on time-delay and repetition, programming and disrespect for rules.
Choreography and music: Antoine Schmitt. Jean-Jacques Birge; With the support of Violet, after an original initiative by Guylaine Monnier (Web Flash Festival)
Antoine Schmitt (FR) is an artist, programming engineer and designer who questions the modalities of the free human in a complex world through minimal, monumental, abstract, generative, interactive, audio and visual installations. He considers programmed things as a radically new artistic material which he confronts to other fields of art such as architecture, dance, literature, music and cinema. His work has been exhibited and awarded internationally.
Jean-Jacques Birgé (FR), is a music composer ("Un Drame Musical Instantané"), film director ("Sarajevo: A Street Under Siege"), multimedia author ("Alphabet, "LeCieleEstBleu", "Somnambules") and sound designer. He considers sound as a counterpoint to pictures and dialog, an extraordinary off-stage landscape and a wide-open window to imagination. An improviser, he has been playing electronic music since 1965, has recorded more than 30 albums and received many awards in all these fields.
Jean-Jacques Birgé (FR), is a music composer ("Un Drame Musical Instantané"), film director ("Sarajevo: A Street Under Siege"), multimedia author ("Alphabet, "LeCieleEstBleu", "Somnambules") and sound designer. He considers sound as a counterpoint to pictures and dialog, an extraordinary off-stage landscape and a wide-open window to imagination. An improviser, he has been playing electronic music since 1965, has recorded more than 30 albums and received many awards in all these fields.