Ars Electronica Festival · 2025
Requiem for an Exit
by Thomas Kvam, Frode Oldereid
🏆 Golden Nica · Prix Ars Electronica 2025
“Requiem for an Exit” by Thomas Kvam and Frode Oldereid received the Golden Nica in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2025.
Between 1994 and 2004, Frode Oldereid and Thomas Kvam created a series of robotic installations exploring the intersections between technology, ideology , and collective memory. These robots evoked the aesthetics of political mass movements, echoing the fractured language of 20th-century totalitarianisms and its…
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