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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 Kuramoto Model (1,000 Fireflies)
David Allan Rueter
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In 2012, Northern Lights.mn commissioned me to build 1,000 custom bike lights to distribute to cyclists attending an outdoor arts festival in Minneapolis, MN. Using radio transceivers and insights gained from complex systems research, these devices synchronized their blinking patterns with other nearby devices, altering social rules of proximity and generating a citywide self-organizing system.
Links: http://1000fireflies.net
Links: http://1000fireflies.net
Commissioned by Northern Lights.mn for Northern Spark 2012
David Allan Rueter (US) is currently an MFA candidate in art and technology studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited at galleries and festivals across the US, including ISEA and Northern Spark. He graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in politics and a focus in political theory. Before attending SAIC, David worked as a software engineer for ten years, designing and implementing tools for processing and transforming large sets of data.