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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.
Voices of Aliveness
Masaki Fujihata
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*Voices of Aliveness* invites people to ride a bicycle on a special path called the “shouting circuit” prepared exclusively for this project and asks them to shout out loud. The bicycles are equipped with a GPS recorder and a video camera. As participants ride the bicycle, traces of their path and shouts are transformed in cyberspace into the shape of ring.
*Voices of Aliveness* is a collection of the shouts of the participants. It is a sculpture of voices. It is a “meta-monument” made of collective memory. The collected rings from each participant are compiled to form a tower-like “time tunnel”—a cyber tunnel of collected shouting that extends toward the heavens. The experience is documented on the Web.
The project connects real space with virtual space. It asks how we can give expression to our lives, our sense of being alive and our activities in virtual space, as well as how we can convey our actions as collective memory to the Internet. Our only option is to invent a new means of expression and develop our creativity. The participants’ shouts are the key to connecting technology and memory.
Links: www.fujihata.jp voicesofaliveness.net
*Voices of Aliveness* is a collection of the shouts of the participants. It is a sculpture of voices. It is a “meta-monument” made of collective memory. The collected rings from each participant are compiled to form a tower-like “time tunnel”—a cyber tunnel of collected shouting that extends toward the heavens. The experience is documented on the Web.
The project connects real space with virtual space. It asks how we can give expression to our lives, our sense of being alive and our activities in virtual space, as well as how we can convey our actions as collective memory to the Internet. Our only option is to invent a new means of expression and develop our creativity. The participants’ shouts are the key to connecting technology and memory.
Links: www.fujihata.jp voicesofaliveness.net
Project commissioned by L'école supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole.
Producer: Pierre-Jean Galdin, head of Nantes School of Arts (FR)
Technical support: Takeshi Kawashima (JP)
Music and sound direction: Yasuaki Shimizu (JP)
Producer: Pierre-Jean Galdin, head of Nantes School of Arts (FR)
Technical support: Takeshi Kawashima (JP)
Music and sound direction: Yasuaki Shimizu (JP)
Masaki Fujihata (JP), born 1956, started out in the 1980s working in the fields of computer graphics and animation. Subsequently, in tandem with the dramatic developments in digital technologies, he began pursuing their possibilities in artistic expression, boldly moving into uncharted territory in the world of art. His works, imbued with the special features unique to the newest technologies in interactive art, virtual reality and networking, raised a variety of issues that had never emerged in earlier media of expression. In his every endeavor, his stance, to see through to the core essence, always remains constant, however, as he earnestly probes fundamental questions to do, for example, with human perception and awareness and why humans communicate.