In 2000, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Reconnoitre” by Gavin Bailey and Tom Corby (Net Based Art) with a Honorary Mention.
Reconnoitre is part of an ongoing series of works concerned with our experience of the network as a “bizarre_scape”—an interlocking appendage to the urban environment with a high metabolism, whose boundaries are continuously re-shaped;accreting and thickening under the influence of powerful social and commercial…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.