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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.
An Artist
"An Artist" is inspired by Article 29 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that all children have the right to develop their talents and abilities. In the current work, a young girl relegated to the kitchen escapes into a musical world of her own creation.
The director invented a story based on her personal experience. She prepared a script, storyboard and shooting script before doing the initial shooting on black and white film. A musical theme guided the gestures and attitude of the young actress. These live-action sequences were then edited and every second frame of the 16mm negative was digitized. The backgrounds and camera movements were redesigned and reproduced on the computer and the shots of the live-action characters were composited over them. Each frame was then "painted" in grey scale with an electronic felt pen. Musical notes were drawn on the images and randomly animated. The textures and coloured lighting effects were applied to the final images in batches.
The director invented a story based on her personal experience. She prepared a script, storyboard and shooting script before doing the initial shooting on black and white film. A musical theme guided the gestures and attitude of the young actress. These live-action sequences were then edited and every second frame of the 16mm negative was digitized. The backgrounds and camera movements were redesigned and reproduced on the computer and the shots of the live-action characters were composited over them. Each frame was then "painted" in grey scale with an electronic felt pen. Musical notes were drawn on the images and randomly animated. The textures and coloured lighting effects were applied to the final images in batches.
Michèle Cournoyer (CDN), born 1943, graduated from the Ecole des beaux-arts in Quebec City and Montreal and went on to study graphic arts, photography and animation in England and Italy. Back in Quebec, she worked as a set designer, art director, costume designer and screenwriter on several important New Wave films. In 1989, she won the National Film Board of Canada French Animation Studio's 9th Cinéaste recherché(e) competition, enabling her to make her first NFB film, La Basse Cour/A Feather Tale.