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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.
Cube with Magic Ribbons
Simon Katan
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_Cube with Magic Ribbons_ is a computer-visual and synthesized-sound composition for live performance. The piece takes its title from a drawing by M.C. Escher, which is rich in contradictory perspectives, but it is also inspired by the wrapped spaces found in the two-dimensional graphics of early computer games such as Asteroids and Pac-Man. It was created using a custom visual sequencer, SoundCircuit, which rather than employing a conventional DAW layout, allows multiple virtual tape heads to travel through a two-dimensional wrapped space along tracks that can be freely interconnected. As the tape heads travel through the resultant network, the topological layout of the tracks comes to directly influence the macro form of the music. Furthermore, as the piece unfolds the nature of this already confusing space reveals itself to be increasingly elastic and complex, yet inexorably intertwined with the musical form.
Links: http://www.info.simonkatan.co.uk/soundcircuit/
Links: http://www.info.simonkatan.co.uk/soundcircuit/
Simon Katan (UK) is an artist and coder with a background in composition who combines electronic music, live animation, interaction and social gaming. His work incorporates hidden mechanisms, emergent behavior, paradox, self-reference, inconsistency, abstract humor, absurdity and wonder. He makes software that creates musical odysseys by exploring animated worlds and design games in which the players unwittingly become performers of bizarre and occasionally daft rites. He especially enjoys connecting these two worlds using technology. Simon recently completed a PhD in audiovisual co-dependency at Brunel University.