Ars Electronica Festival · 2000
The Active Text Project
by Alex Weyers, Jason E. Lewis
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2000
Alex Weyers and Jason E. Lewis's “The Active Text Project” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2000, category Interactive Art.
Overview The Concrete Poets of the '6os, and their Dada and Futurist forebears, treated the visual appearance of text as a principal participant in the production of meaning.Their interests in such experimentation grew out of a deeply held belief that traditional forms of written communication, with its clean spac…
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