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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.
Descriptive Camera
Matt Richardson
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The _Descriptive Camera_ works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype uses crowd sourcing to output a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of “parsable” metadata about photos such as the camera’s settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they do not output any information about the content of the photo. The _Descriptive Camera_ only outputs the metadata about the content.
Links: http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
Links: http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
Matt Richardson (US) is an electronic artist working with networking, information display and electromechanics. Matt is also a contributing writer and video producer for _Make_ magazine and _Makezine.com_, covering creative uses of technology within the maker community. He is currently a master’s candidate at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and owns a technology consultancy, Awesome Button Studios.