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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.
The Ishiyama Excursion
stefan larsson
Original: The Ishiyama Excursion | 4000 * 2250px | 1.5 MB
_The Ishiyama Excursion_ video features third incarnation AUJIK artifacts on an excursion to the Ishiyama-dera temple in Japan. The artifacts are superfluous products generated in the crossbreeding of human and technical evolution. They are in a state between resignation and euphoria, incapable of expressing themselves.
AUJIK is a New Age group that shares the Shinto belief that everything in nature is alive, even the things that we consider to be the most artificial and synthetic. Just as with other forms of animism, AUJIK worships everything that comes from nature and regards them as spiritual beings. The main difference with AUJIK is that science and technology are considered as sacred as stones and trees.
Music: Chequerboard - Prince August
Filmed at the Ishiyama Dera, Shiga, Japan
Links: http://www.q-n-q.com/
AUJIK is a New Age group that shares the Shinto belief that everything in nature is alive, even the things that we consider to be the most artificial and synthetic. Just as with other forms of animism, AUJIK worships everything that comes from nature and regards them as spiritual beings. The main difference with AUJIK is that science and technology are considered as sacred as stones and trees.
Music: Chequerboard - Prince August
Filmed at the Ishiyama Dera, Shiga, Japan
Links: http://www.q-n-q.com/
Stefan Larsson (SE), born 1973, lives and works in Otsu (JP). He studied at the Umea Academy of Fine Arts (SE) and was inspired by Ray Kurzweil’s and Vernor Vinge’s ideas about technological singularity. He is interested in how artificial intelligence relates to emotions, psychology, nature and consciousness.