Ars Electronica Festival · 1994

Bilderbuch für Ernst Will - A Euro Rebus

by Peter Callas

🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1994

Peter Callas's “Bilderbuch für Ernst Will - A Euro Rebus” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1994, category Computer Animation.

"Bilderbuch für Ernst Will" is an electronic rendering of a form of proto-televisual iconomania: the creation of haphazardly sourced private pictorial scrap books or bilderbiicher. Often intended for the surprise, delight and edification of grandchildren by grandparents, these books had the anagogical potential to…

— Prix Ars Electronica Archive

About Peter Callas

Peter Callas (AU), born 1952, B.A. Honours, University of Sydney. 1975 – 78 Assistant film editor, sound editor, ABC Television, Sydney. 1980 Diploma in Art, Sydney College of the Arts.

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