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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.
Manhattan Timeformations
Mark Watkins,
Brian McGrath
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"Manhattan Timeformations" is the visualization of the dynamic relationship between Manhattan's skyscrapers and various factors of urban development. The significant potential of linking information and architecture is impressively demonstrated here.
"Manhattan Timeformations" is a computer model which simultaneously presents a layered, cartographic history of the lower half of Manhattan Island, and an exploded time line chronicling the real estate development of high-rise office buildings, which constitute the skylines of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan. The unusual and hybrid character of this computer model allows one to correlate the cartographic history of 370 years of urban development of the island with the peaks and valleys of office building speculation. It is the swarming activity of real estate speculation during concentrated periods of building activity within highly localized districts that characterizes the timeformation of New York City's skyline.
Links: http://www.skyscraper.org/timeformations
"Manhattan Timeformations" is a computer model which simultaneously presents a layered, cartographic history of the lower half of Manhattan Island, and an exploded time line chronicling the real estate development of high-rise office buildings, which constitute the skylines of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan. The unusual and hybrid character of this computer model allows one to correlate the cartographic history of 370 years of urban development of the island with the peaks and valleys of office building speculation. It is the swarming activity of real estate speculation during concentrated periods of building activity within highly localized districts that characterizes the timeformation of New York City's skyline.
Links: http://www.skyscraper.org/timeformations
Brian McGrath (US) has been a practicing architect since 1985. His work has been exhibited in the Queens Museum and at Parsons School of Design. McGrath has just completed a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, where he consulted on curricula and computer technologies for a new master of urban design program for the faculty of architecture.
Mark Watkins (USA) is a designer of websites for The Skyscraper Museum and the Department of Architecture at Parsons School of Design and an adjunct instructor of digital design courses in architecture, animation and web design at Parsons School of Design.
Mark Watkins (USA) is a designer of websites for The Skyscraper Museum and the Department of Architecture at Parsons School of Design and an adjunct instructor of digital design courses in architecture, animation and web design at Parsons School of Design.