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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.
Replica
Replica takes place in a world under the earth, a world of metal, a world populated with the most diverse characters roaming this metal world. One of the main characters is a data-thief, who is able to make use of "shapeshifting". This makes it possible for the figure to change his/her own genetic code and thus assume very diverse forms. The body becomes pliable, the possibilities of genetic links unbounded. This data-thief invades this world of metal in order to steal genetic codes stored in a gene laboratory there. The security system of the gene laboratory recognizes the data-thief and one of the armed fighting drones attempts to stop the data-thief, who has changed forms in order to outwit the security system. The data-thief suddenly finds him/herself trapped in the gene laboratory, where the thief's own genetic code has been used to create exact copies of him/her.The data-thief is not only confronted with the scientists and the security system of the laboratory, but suddenly also with clones of him/herself...
The film Replica is a section, a sequence from a work currently in progress, which will have a planned length of 30 minutes.The concept and contents of the work are based on change.The character's ability to assume the most various forms provides an opportunity to play with corporeality and the different resultant characters.The film itself is similarto a computer game, in that it is divided into "levels" that increase in the degree of difficulty with respect to the tasks that the character must accomplish in the course of the story. On these different levels, the data-thief roams throughout the subterranean world and its architecture.
The film Replica is a section, a sequence from a work currently in progress, which will have a planned length of 30 minutes.The concept and contents of the work are based on change.The character's ability to assume the most various forms provides an opportunity to play with corporeality and the different resultant characters.The film itself is similarto a computer game, in that it is divided into "levels" that increase in the degree of difficulty with respect to the tasks that the character must accomplish in the course of the story. On these different levels, the data-thief roams throughout the subterranean world and its architecture.
Violet Suk (A), born 1970, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, guest studies with Prof. Tony Oursler, Bob Breer and Perry Hoberman at the Cooper Union for Advancement in Science and Art in New York; studied with Prof. Peter Weibel at the Masterclass for Visual Media Design, College of Applied Art in Vienna. Lecturer in the field of new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Martin Koch (A), born 1970, studied from 1985 to 1990 at the HTBL Graz (audiovisual media), after 1990 with Prof. Peter Weibel, Rebecca Allen, Henry Jesionka, Valie Export and Charles Pujol at the Master Class for Visual Media Design, College of Applied Art in Vienna.
Martin Koch (A), born 1970, studied from 1985 to 1990 at the HTBL Graz (audiovisual media), after 1990 with Prof. Peter Weibel, Rebecca Allen, Henry Jesionka, Valie Export and Charles Pujol at the Master Class for Visual Media Design, College of Applied Art in Vienna.