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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.
A-Light
The video A-Light is the first installment of a per-formance/video/music project that explores experimental light and electronic sound effects in an extreme impact context. The function of the video is to project an image that is at the same time a form of movement and a form of light. The music and what we call spatial sound allows us to create an actual physical impression on the body.The rhythm and the musical forms are the guidelines and parameters of time, from the micro to the macro structure. The sound and image not only occupy the diffused space but also the mind space of the viewer.This phenomenon in turn has a psychological impact on the viewer.
This piece takes into consideration the great need of humans to experience increasingly stronger sensations and their ability to adapt physiologically and psychologically to this imposed technology, especially the speed of moving bodies in space. The technological tools available are not perceived as machines but as extensions of the human sensibility towards altered perceptions. Light is life, creation, intelligence, energy and speed. Artificial light (A-Light) is perceived as a form of artificial life (A-Life) that effects perception.
This piece takes into consideration the great need of humans to experience increasingly stronger sensations and their ability to adapt physiologically and psychologically to this imposed technology, especially the speed of moving bodies in space. The technological tools available are not perceived as machines but as extensions of the human sensibility towards altered perceptions. Light is life, creation, intelligence, energy and speed. Artificial light (A-Light) is perceived as a form of artificial life (A-Life) that effects perception.
Yan Breuleux (CDN), born 1970. At the 1995 ISEA forum he worked as a graphic artist with Maurice Benayoun, Jean - Francois Cantin and Michael Meckenzie. He is presently working as the artistic director for the Company Media Renaissance.
Alain Thibault (CDN) has created many pieces in the fields of contemporary music, production of theatre works, video art, choreography, film documentaries and multimedia creations. Presently he is the Artistic Director of ACREQ in Quebec. Recently he has been artist in residence at the Centre des Nouveau Media at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris.
Alain Thibault (CDN) has created many pieces in the fields of contemporary music, production of theatre works, video art, choreography, film documentaries and multimedia creations. Presently he is the Artistic Director of ACREQ in Quebec. Recently he has been artist in residence at the Centre des Nouveau Media at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris.