Mark Shepard's "Sentient City Survival Kit" and Richard Pell's "Center for PostNatural History" in the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria

Sep 01 - Sep 06 2011

OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ
Linz, Austria,

Opening Reception: Sep 01 2011

The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s highest endowed prize for digital arts, awarded in seven categories. The CyberArts 2011 exhibition showcases prizewinning works in Hybrid Art, Interactive Art and Digital Musics & Sound Art. Shepard’s Sentient City Survival Kit, which received an honorable mention in the Prix Ars Electronica Interactive Art Category, explores the social, cultural and political implications of ubiquitous computing for urban environments. Pell’s Center for PostNatural History, which received an honorable mention in the Prix Arts Electronica Hybrid Art Category, aims to acquire, interpret and provide access to a collection of living, preserved and documented organisms of “postnatural” origin.