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Bernay Kurland Grayson Award
for Creative Excellence
This $1500 cash prize is made possible by Bernay Kurland Grayson’s
generous commitment to the USC School of Fine Arts. |
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stanza |
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| genomixer |
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| net.art, 2003, United Kingdom |
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| Jurors’ Remarks on genomixer |
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graphics, and animation, Genomixer ingeniously uses the artist’s
DNA as the basis for dynamic patterns emerging from another
kind of code within the computer. This deeply layered work
invites meditation on the mingling of different codes as well
as the synergistic union of human and machine.
_ N. Katherine Hayle
Using his own genetic code as a source, stanza creates a
series of evolving visual and acoustical patterns – the
esthetics of which compete with abstract paintings and trendy
electronic music. An elegant navigation interface invites
the viewer to experience, via the web, the science fiction
recoding of the artist’s and of everyone’s genes.
With technical excellence, genomixer recombines stanza’s
subjective artistic approach with problems of political and
ethical interest.
_Nils Roeller
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AIM V Student
Award
This $500 cash prize represents the USC School of Fine Arts’ dedication
to encouraging innovative student artwork in the time-based media field. |
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Sterling Ruby & Kirsten Stoltmann |
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| Couple |
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| Video, 16:30, 2003, United States |
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to create an uncanny scenarios = interrogating the nature of
romantic partnership. Is this partnership symbiotic or parasitic,
enabling or crippling?
_ N. Katherine Hayle
Formal aspects of everyday life are key to Couple. Art direction,
casting and an unforeseen final scene create an intense,
uncanny atmosphere. With a finely calibrated eye, Sterling
Ruby and Kirsten Stoltmann speak to the machine in everyone.
_Nils Roeller
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Juror’s
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N. Katherine Hayles |
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Dennis H. Miller |
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| faktura |
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| 3D animation, 9m 25s, 2003, United
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Faktura creates striking animations that
render visible what otherwise we can never see—code running
within the machine.
The ever-changing organic forms fascinate with their novelty and eerie
familiarity.
_ N. Katherine Hayle
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Juror’s
Honorable Mention
Nils Roeller |
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Shauna Frischkorn |
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| Game Boys |
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| C-Prints, 2003, United States |
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playing computer games focus on the impact of audiovisual interactive
machineson perception, creating a new passivity. Or is it the
media shift from game to photography that creates the illusionof
interpassivity?
_Nils Roeller
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Created in 1999 by co-founders Janet Owen and Jim Keller, AIM
originated in response to the phenomenon of communications, technology,
and distribution inno-vations merging together to create global
networks and tools, including the internet. |
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