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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.
Der Wald
Der Wald ('The Forest') is a monochrome animation of a forest which extends to infinity along the x, y, and z axes. Movement within the forest can take place forwards, backwards, leftwards and rightwards without ever reaching an end.
There is no origin and no destination. There is no sky, no ground, no horizon. There is no basis, no reference points for spatial orientation. Just the very same trees over and over again. The animation is an almost five minute journey through this peculiar forest. The soundtrack gives the viewer the impression of being on a train. The traveler is not alone: over and over again, a woman's voice repeats the same verses from a German nursery rhyme. Perhaps she is trying to sing her child to sleep.
The whole situation is so strange and quiet. If one's aim is to reach the end of the forest or to find out one's position, it becomes a nightmare. But if one simply enjoys the trip for its own sake, then the infinity of the forest, the rattling of the tram, and the woman 's voice allow the viewer some peace.
Technical Background
HW: SGI Indigo Elan
SW: Softimage
There is no origin and no destination. There is no sky, no ground, no horizon. There is no basis, no reference points for spatial orientation. Just the very same trees over and over again. The animation is an almost five minute journey through this peculiar forest. The soundtrack gives the viewer the impression of being on a train. The traveler is not alone: over and over again, a woman's voice repeats the same verses from a German nursery rhyme. Perhaps she is trying to sing her child to sleep.
The whole situation is so strange and quiet. If one's aim is to reach the end of the forest or to find out one's position, it becomes a nightmare. But if one simply enjoys the trip for its own sake, then the infinity of the forest, the rattling of the tram, and the woman 's voice allow the viewer some peace.
Technical Background
HW: SGI Indigo Elan
SW: Softimage
Tamás Waliczky (HU), born 1959, is an animator and painter who has been using the computer as an artistic medium since 1986. Presently he is Computer Animation Researcher at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe. His works has been shown internationally at such events as SIGGRAPH 91 and 93; Imagina 90, 91 and 93; Prix Ars Electronica 88, 89 and 90. Awards include the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 89, the Third Prize at Imagina 91 and the World Graph Prize at Locarno 91. Many international exhibitions, publications and lectures.