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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.
L' Autre
'L'Autre' ('the other one') is a vir installation where the visitor is confronted with a real-time 3D animated face. The 'other one' 'lives' in a virtual space, which is connected to the real world through an interface that detects the visitor's movements. When someone enters the room he also enters the virtual space and is able to communicate.
A small 'box' or interface is all that is needed to establish contact with the 'other one'. The visitor's every movement triggers interaction. The visitor becomes a 'live' joystick or mouse acting on the same virtual playing field as the numerical model. Through this interaction, a shift takes place from physical space into virtual space. The installation is not static but open and capable of development. Several visitors can take part and communicate televirtually among themselves. The meeting with the herald angel is and remains one of the most durable themes in art history. Today, this angel can even be a numerical model. A synthetic being who announces various realities to us, from artificial memories.
Technical Background
HW: Silicon Graphics
SW: Mac Guff Ligne
A small 'box' or interface is all that is needed to establish contact with the 'other one'. The visitor's every movement triggers interaction. The visitor becomes a 'live' joystick or mouse acting on the same virtual playing field as the numerical model. Through this interaction, a shift takes place from physical space into virtual space. The installation is not static but open and capable of development. Several visitors can take part and communicate televirtually among themselves. The meeting with the herald angel is and remains one of the most durable themes in art history. Today, this angel can even be a numerical model. A synthetic being who announces various realities to us, from artificial memories.
Technical Background
HW: Silicon Graphics
SW: Mac Guff Ligne
Catherine Ikam (F) is a painter, photographer, multimedia plastics artist, and Research Fellow at MIT. Previously she was the head of the Department of Graphic Arts at SFP, as well as writer and producer on the first video art programs on Antenne 2 television. Presently she is working on virtual worlds as a member of the research group “Territoires Virtuels”.