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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.
Cinema for Primates
rachel mayeri
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_Cinema for Primates_ is a series of videos designed and presented for chimpanzees at Edinburgh Zoo. Chimpanzees in captivity are shown television as a form of enrichment, but no artists have made videos expressly for chimps. After showing a series of test videos to the chimps to learn their preferences, the artist will script and produce a synthetic chimpanzee drama. The video will be installed at the zoo, so that both human and non-human primates can simultaneously watch the show and each other’s responses to it. The project is intended to imagine the inner world of the captive chimpanzee, producing an original artwork—enrichment for humans and chimpanzees.
_Cinema for Primates_ is an interspecies art and science project and represents the culmination of a five-year project by Mayeri called _Primate Cinema_, exploring the linkages between primates and media, which has involved a range of videos, installations, lectures, writing, and workshops, exhibited internationally and sponsored by residencies.
The project is interdisciplinary, a collaboration between Rachel Mayeri, a video artist and media studies professor, and Dr. Sarah Jane Vick, a comparative psychologist based at the University of Stirling, who has studied chimpanzee personality, emotions and face recognition. Dr. Vick’s role is to explain and interpret chimpanzee behavior in response to the videos, in addition to input from zookeepers and research assistants.
Links: http://www.rachelmayeri.com/projects/primate-cinema
_Cinema for Primates_ is an interspecies art and science project and represents the culmination of a five-year project by Mayeri called _Primate Cinema_, exploring the linkages between primates and media, which has involved a range of videos, installations, lectures, writing, and workshops, exhibited internationally and sponsored by residencies.
The project is interdisciplinary, a collaboration between Rachel Mayeri, a video artist and media studies professor, and Dr. Sarah Jane Vick, a comparative psychologist based at the University of Stirling, who has studied chimpanzee personality, emotions and face recognition. Dr. Vick’s role is to explain and interpret chimpanzee behavior in response to the videos, in addition to input from zookeepers and research assistants.
Links: http://www.rachelmayeri.com/projects/primate-cinema
Rachel Mayeri (US) is a media artist working at the intersection of science and art. Her projects explore topics ranging from the history of special effects to the human animal. She is interested in video as a medium between cultures and as a technology blending scientific observation and artistic imagination. Rachel Mayeri lives in Los Angeles where she is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Harvey Mudd College.