Ars Electronica Festival · 1988
Gates
by Mario Canali
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 1988
In 1988, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Gates” by Mario Canali (Computer Animation) with an Award of Distinction. Mario Canali has 2 more works in this atlas.
In the beginning there is the sign: an open circle, an isolated line. Signs that are the desire of shapes in expectation of a time that might allow them to develop. The music provides the sign with time, animates it allowing to live its own destiny.
About Mario Canali
Mario Canali, born in 1952. Painter graduated in Law, since 1984 he attends to computer art and also produces electronic images and animations for magazines, advertising, fashion. In 1986 an image by Mario Canali won a prize at AT&T Contest (SIGGRAPH).
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