Ars Electronica Festival · 1990

Eye of the Storm

by Daniel Pirofsky

🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1990

Daniel Pirofsky's “Eye of the Storm” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1990, category Computer Graphics.

Through my in-depth explorations in the early eighties of holoscopic narrative and recursively self-referential language, an area now popularly but ambiguously known as “hypertext”, I originally entered the realm of Macintosh computing in order to extend the possibilities of liberating mind from the heavy conditioning…

— Prix Ars Electronica Archive

About Daniel Pirofsky

Daniel Pirofsky, born in Portland, Oregon, USA, in 1957, has studied philosophy at Reed College; apprenticed with poets Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Philip Whalen; written several small books of poetry and philosophy; lived in…

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