Ars Electronica Festival · 2004
Listening Post
by Ben Rubin, Mark Hansen
🏆 Golden Nica · Prix Ars Electronica 2004
Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen's “Listening Post” was honoured with the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2004, category Interactive Art.
Listening Post consists of a computer-controlled audiovisual environment. At the Whitney Museum, it was installed in a specially constructed room measuring about 6m x 13m. A curved, suspended mesh of 231 electronic text displays (small vacuum-fluorescent display panels mounted on specially designed circuit boards)…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.