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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.
Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017
John Gerrard
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*Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017* depicts the site of the 'Lucas Gusher'—the world's first major oil find—in Spindletop, Texas in 1901, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation and placed at its center is a flagpole bearing a flag of perpetually-renewing pressurized black smoke.
The computer-generated Spindletop runs in exact parallel with the real site in Texas throughout the year: the sun rising at the appropriate times and the days getting longer and shorter according to the seasons. The simulation is non-durational (having no beginning or end) and is run live by software that is calculating each frame of the animation in real time as it is needed.
Links: http://www.johngerrard.net/, https://vimeo.com/217000876, www.westernflag.art
The computer-generated Spindletop runs in exact parallel with the real site in Texas throughout the year: the sun rising at the appropriate times and the days getting longer and shorter according to the seasons. The simulation is non-durational (having no beginning or end) and is run live by software that is calculating each frame of the animation in real time as it is needed.
Links: http://www.johngerrard.net/, https://vimeo.com/217000876, www.westernflag.art
Producer: Werner Poetzelberger
Programmer: Helmut Bressler
Modelers: Max Loegler, Philipp Marcks
Game Engine: Unigine
Installation development: Jakob Illera / Inseq Design
From April 21–27 *Western Flag* displayed on the the Edmond j. Safra Fountain Court at Somerset House, WC2R 1LA London.
Programmer: Helmut Bressler
Modelers: Max Loegler, Philipp Marcks
Game Engine: Unigine
Installation development: Jakob Illera / Inseq Design
From April 21–27 *Western Flag* displayed on the the Edmond j. Safra Fountain Court at Somerset House, WC2R 1LA London.
John Gerrard (IE), born in 1974, is widely regarded as a key contemporary figure in the development of digital media. Deceptively looking like film or video, his works are simulations—virtual worlds, made using real-time computer graphics, a technology developed by the military and now used extensively in the gaming industry. John Gerrard received a BFA from Oxford University in 1997 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. He lives and works in Dublin and Vienna. Gerrard's work is in the collection of Tate, London; MoMA, New York; SF Moma, San Francisco; LACMA, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Kistefos Collection, Norway; IMMA, Dublin; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, and many private collections internationally.