Jutta Kirchgeorg's “The Information Age” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1997, category Interactive Art.
In "The Information Age," current technology is both subject matter and medium. Wrapped as an educational CD-ROM product, it stages a situation where the viewer experiences the computer's deficiency as an intelligent interface for human interaction and his gradually vanishing power of control over the machine.
About Jutta Kirchgeorg
Jutta Kirchgeorg (D), born 1969, studied Communication Design at the Fachhochschule Rheinland Pfalz, majoring in Telecommunications. 1995 she won a Fulbright Scholarship to study Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she focused on…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.