Ars Electronica Festival · 1990

The Trees are Walking

by Chico MacMurtrie

🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1990

“The Trees are Walking” by Chico MacMurtrie received a Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 1990. Chico MacMurtrie has 2 more works in this atlas.

For the last ten years I have worked in multiple mediums to create the Total Art Form. This pursuit has led me into the use of modern technology to illustrate the primitive aspects of the human condition. I use materials, sculptures, and mechanisms to represent metaphors for human actions and social circumstances.

— Prix Ars Electronica Archive

About Chico MacMurtrie

Chico MacMurtrie, 1983 B.F.A., University of Arizona; 1987 M.F.A. New Forms and Concepts, University of California. He has received several awards and scholarships including the Grant for Interdisciplinary Artists 1988 and the Arizona Regent's Scholarship at…

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