Ars Electronica Festival · 2020
Trickle Down, A New Vertical Sovereignty
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2020
Helen Knowles's “Trickle Down, A New Vertical Sovereignty” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2020, category Interactive Art.
Trickle Down, A New Vertical Sovereignty is a tokenized four-screen video installation and generative soundscape attached to the blockchain, which explores value systems and wealth disparity. The artwork is composed of auction scenes, performances, and choral interludes by different communities such as prisoners…
About Helen Knowles
Helen Knowles (GB) (b.1975) is an artist and curator of the Birth Rites Collection. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths University. She has exhibited at arebyte Gallery, London, The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, NEMO festival, 104 Paris, Hannover…
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