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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 / SYZYGY / TZVIA / ELIAZER
Elizabeth Rosenzweig-Kinchen
Original: Tzvia / Eliazer | 2841 * 2192px | 1.6 MB
Intention and Content of my Computer Graphics
The overall intent of the work "TZVIA/ ELIAZER", "SYZYGY" and "WHEN" is to express the message of the struggle between the spiritual path of Judaism and the pull or assimilation into the secular world. The subject matter can be viewed in two ways-, literally of a Jewish struggle or more symbolically of the struggle of any spiritual practice and the secular world it dwells within.
The content of the work is Hebrew words and letters, passport pictures of Jewish immigrants and many abstract computer generated images. The viewer doesn't have to understand Hebrew to understand the message of the work. He can look at Hebrew as a symbol for a spiritual practice and the computer images as symbols for the modern world of high-technology. Either in the specific case of Judaism or in the symbolic imagery the viewer can see the dichotomy of the spiritual and secular worlds.
The overall intent of the work "TZVIA/ ELIAZER", "SYZYGY" and "WHEN" is to express the message of the struggle between the spiritual path of Judaism and the pull or assimilation into the secular world. The subject matter can be viewed in two ways-, literally of a Jewish struggle or more symbolically of the struggle of any spiritual practice and the secular world it dwells within.
The content of the work is Hebrew words and letters, passport pictures of Jewish immigrants and many abstract computer generated images. The viewer doesn't have to understand Hebrew to understand the message of the work. He can look at Hebrew as a symbol for a spiritual practice and the computer images as symbols for the modern world of high-technology. Either in the specific case of Judaism or in the symbolic imagery the viewer can see the dichotomy of the spiritual and secular worlds.
Born 1960 in New York City. American computer artist, living and working in Winchester/Massachusetts. Trained at the San Francisco Art Institute, she then studied photography at Goddard College, Plainfield (1981), finally at M.I.T. Cambridge/Mass., where she worked in Visual Studies. Elizabeth Rosenzweig-Kinchen teaches photography at various institutes for technology and arts, e.g. at M.I.T. was research assistant in photography and computer sectors and is now employed with a computer company as specialist in computer graphics for their research and development projects. Since 1981 regular exhibitions; was present at SIGGRAPH 1985 and 1986 with computer graphics.
Titles of the entries submitted for Prix Ars Electronica '87:
1 "TZVIA/ELIAZER", M.I.T. / Cambridge, 1986
2 "SYZYGY", M.I.T. / Cambridge, 1985
3 "WHEN", M.I.T. / Cambridge, 1984
The works were created on a Perkin Eimer 3200 CPV, a Grinnel GMR-27 frame buffer and software developed for that purpose.
Titles of the entries submitted for Prix Ars Electronica '87:
1 "TZVIA/ELIAZER", M.I.T. / Cambridge, 1986
2 "SYZYGY", M.I.T. / Cambridge, 1985
3 "WHEN", M.I.T. / Cambridge, 1984
The works were created on a Perkin Eimer 3200 CPV, a Grinnel GMR-27 frame buffer and software developed for that purpose.