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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.
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Typingmonkeys
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_0b0000.tms_ is an audio visual performance focusing on object-orientation, random initialization and real-time-processing. It is also a series of experiments to understand audiovisually how it is possible to construct a complex system from the smallest unit.
According to the “infinite monkey theorem,” an infinitely-long sentence typewritten at random by a monkey should include every sentence that exists in the world or even that can exist in principle. Some astrophysicists seek to explain the beginning of the universe by this metaphor. It would be possible to generate any system by random operation if there were an infinitely-long period before the big bang. On the other hand, it is also suggested that the monkey should not use a word processor, but program a computer program as it would be easier to write a computer program than a meaningful sentence.
Our name, Typingmonkeys, is a parody of the "infinite monkey theorem", but we are actually "coding" to create a significant experience for human being by designing the smallest units of the system.
Links: typingmonkeys.jp
According to the “infinite monkey theorem,” an infinitely-long sentence typewritten at random by a monkey should include every sentence that exists in the world or even that can exist in principle. Some astrophysicists seek to explain the beginning of the universe by this metaphor. It would be possible to generate any system by random operation if there were an infinitely-long period before the big bang. On the other hand, it is also suggested that the monkey should not use a word processor, but program a computer program as it would be easier to write a computer program than a meaningful sentence.
Our name, Typingmonkeys, is a parody of the "infinite monkey theorem", but we are actually "coding" to create a significant experience for human being by designing the smallest units of the system.
Links: typingmonkeys.jp
Photos: Hirotaka Hirabayashi
Typingmonkeys (JP) was formed in 2011 by Noguchi Kumiko and Hirakawa Norimichi. Utilizing computational capability the unit produces and controls a humanly impressible amount number of objects. The output sometimes makes no sense, like text typed by monkeys.