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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.
Curtain Trip
George Barber
Original: Curtain Trip | 4404 * 2993px | 37.7 MB
Original: Curtain Trip | 4404 * 2993px | 37.7 MB
Original: Curtain Trip | 4404 * 2993px | 37.7 MB
Original: Curtain Trip | 4404 * 2993px | 37.7 MB
«'Curtain Trip' resulted from my hanging three pieces of colored silk from a ceiling, lying on the ground and looking up at them as they moved in the breeze. Soon I realised that although I found this pretty fabulous, nobody else would. Thus, I hit on the idea of doubling n all up and creating a vortex or mandala type image. The footage of the fabric itself was shot on film; the rest is history.» (George Barber)
«George Barber's new film is a mixture of high technology and psychedelia. While in his earlier works he used found images from both film and television or the art world, this tape remains abstract, concentrating on the synaesthetic experience of the combination of image and soundtrack into a kaleidoscopic whole.» (Angus Walker)
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«George Barber's new film is a mixture of high technology and psychedelia. While in his earlier works he used found images from both film and television or the art world, this tape remains abstract, concentrating on the synaesthetic experience of the combination of image and soundtrack into a kaleidoscopic whole.» (Angus Walker)
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George Barber (GB), born 1958, is a lecturer in Harrow, Epsom, Leicester and at the Royal College in London. He Studied sculpture at St. Martins School of Arts and has worked as a music journalist, pop musician, and radio and TV writer, among other things. His “The Greatest Hits of Scratch Video” (1984) are among the best known tapes in independent video.