Ars Electronica Festival · 2008
a plaything for the great observers at rest
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2008
“a plaything for the great observers at rest” by Norimichi Hirakawa received an Award of Distinction in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2008.
In the installation “a plaything for the great observers at rest”, the audience can control the viewpoint and switch between a geocentric model and a heliocentric model by operating the device, a conceptual model of the sun and the earth.
About Norimichi Hirakawa
Norimichi Hirakawa (JP), born in 1982, graduated from Tama Art University (information design department) in 2007. He reconstructs universal and underlying phenomena at the sensory level of the audience and releases them as installations.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.