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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.
Handsight
The work 'Handsight' was produced in cooperation with the Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, and premiered at Ars Electronica in 1992. The point of the piece is to emphasize aspects of virtuality, realization and assimilation of the senses through telepresence, and to connect the real with the virtual by relating a specific physical object to its virtual properties.
This is achieved through a three-part installation: a projection screen for real-time computer graphics and an interactive, handheld user interface in the shape of an eyeball with which the user explores the surroundings and interior of a larger, hollow plexi-glass sphere. This 'eyeball' becomes a disembodied object in the user's hand - a virtual camera moving freely in space. When pointed at the outside of the hollow sphere, this virtual camera displays it as an eyeball, through whose pupil it can enter and 'explore' the interior where virtual pictures and objects are placed at certain points. While the hand-held eyeball perceives the virtual eye as an object (macrocosm) which is conventionally represented in the traditional perspective view, the interior is revealed as a computer-generated, iconographic collection of specifically Hungarian folk art (scenes of holy figures in bottles). A context of these representations seems relevant to me because they are in a certain sense expressions of mental (virtual) spaces in a world of concrete objects.
Technical Background
HW: 4D-310-VGXT (SGI)
SW: Artist’s Proprietary
This is achieved through a three-part installation: a projection screen for real-time computer graphics and an interactive, handheld user interface in the shape of an eyeball with which the user explores the surroundings and interior of a larger, hollow plexi-glass sphere. This 'eyeball' becomes a disembodied object in the user's hand - a virtual camera moving freely in space. When pointed at the outside of the hollow sphere, this virtual camera displays it as an eyeball, through whose pupil it can enter and 'explore' the interior where virtual pictures and objects are placed at certain points. While the hand-held eyeball perceives the virtual eye as an object (macrocosm) which is conventionally represented in the traditional perspective view, the interior is revealed as a computer-generated, iconographic collection of specifically Hungarian folk art (scenes of holy figures in bottles). A context of these representations seems relevant to me because they are in a certain sense expressions of mental (virtual) spaces in a world of concrete objects.
Technical Background
HW: 4D-310-VGXT (SGI)
SW: Artist’s Proprietary
Agnes Hegedüs (H), born 1964, studied video and photograpby at the Hungarian Academy for Applied Arts, at the Minerva Academy, Groningen, and video and Computer arts at the AKI Art Academy of Enschede (Holland). Since 1990 she has been at the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt. Exhibitions of video and Computer installations in Europe and Japan. 1993 Prisma Prize for Computer art at the Hamburg Culture Foundation.