Ars Electronica Festival · 1998
Nerve Garden & other Cyberbiological Worlds of Biota.org
by Bruce Damer
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1998
In 1998, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Nerve Garden & other Cyberbiological Worlds of Biota.org” by Bruce Damer (Net Based Art) with a Honorary Mention. Bruce Damer has 1 more work in this atlas.
Cyberspace is now evolving beyond being merely an "interface" (something you just point and click on) to becoming a true "place" (which you enter and inhabit). Hundreds of thousands of people now enter 3D cyber-cityscapes, communicating through digital bodies called "avatars" (visit ).
About Bruce Damer
Bruce Damer (US) is founding director of the Contact Consortium (http://www.ccon.org), a Silicon Valley based nonprofit research memebership organization dedicated to the development of virtual worlds on the Internet.
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