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TEC-CH Blog: The Ars Electronica archive

Thursday 5 February 2009

The Ars Electronica archive

Starting in 1979, Ars Electronica GmbH has organized an annual festival featuring digital media art. With close to 30 years of material in digital art and media culture, its archive presents an interesting evolution of digital technology and changes in the creative process. Besides project descriptions of displays over the past festivals, the archive also contains festival documentations and catalogues, information about winners of the Prix Ars Electronica and about the participants for the festival's various projects. What's more interesting is that the website has created an interactive navigator that helps visitors browse through the archives without the need to constantly refer to its main page. Its wealth of creative ideas and their use of technology definitely warrants a look for those who take an interest in digital art.

Update: Serena provided a link for an interactive map navigator for the Ars Electronica archive at http://residence.aec.at/didi/FLweb/ - neat stuff!

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posted by Jen @ 17:19   3 Comments

3 Comments:

At 5 February 2009 at 18:28 , Blogger almostserena said...

The Ars Electronica festival is one of the most famous and complete archive and the first archiving system for digital art. There is a very cool application used to explore the archive, developed some years ago: a 3D interactive map that allows the user to explore and understand the archive main concepts and to grasp the evolution of the technology based art. Anyway, there are other intersting archives and projects of visualization like the netzpannung.org with the timeline and semantic map applications. They are quite old, but really useful to decribe the digital art work in progress history.

 
At 6 February 2009 at 15:18 , Blogger Jen said...

Thanks for your comment, Serena!The interactive navigator was the only application that I could find for the Ars Electronica archive, would you happen to know the link for its interactive map? It sounds like somethign neat to look into.

Cheers,
Jen.

 
At 18 February 2009 at 14:46 , Blogger almostserena said...

http://residence.aec.at/didi/FLweb/

here u are the link of the SemaSpace project. Check it out!

 

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