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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.
Crackle-canvas #1
Tom Verbruggen
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A crackle canvas is a painting that produces sound. It contains a circuit board, speaker, knobs, switches, wood and canvas. Each canvas makes sounds by itself but can be connected via cables (patched) with other crackle-canvasses. This way the paintings start to react on each other. Each patch creates a different sound and drawing of cables on the wall or in the space the paintings are presented.
I present _Crackle-Canvas #1_ to the audience in a performance. In this performance I show the audience some of the many things _Crackle-Canvas #1_ can do. After this performance I invite the audience to play with _Crackle-Canvas #1_ themselves.
Links: www.toktek.org http://toktek.org/Site/Crackle-canvas_1.html
I present _Crackle-Canvas #1_ to the audience in a performance. In this performance I show the audience some of the many things _Crackle-Canvas #1_ can do. After this performance I invite the audience to play with _Crackle-Canvas #1_ themselves.
Links: www.toktek.org http://toktek.org/Site/Crackle-canvas_1.html
Tom Verbruggen (NL) studied fine arts at the St. Joost Art Academy in Breda (NL). During this study he became increasingly interested in sound, finally resulting in his _toktek_ performance. Over the years, _toktek_ has mastered the art of sampling anything that makes sound. After making only sound-art pieces and sound performances, he had the urge to make visual art again and started to experiment with and combine modern-day electronics and classical art forms such as sculpture and painting. Tom is interested in and fascinated by the contrast between tactile human gestures and the inhuman continuity of the machine. Natural materials such as wood and fabric vs. an electronic circuit. The past vs. the future.