Ars Electronica Festival · 2020
Average Happiness
by Maja Gehrig
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2020
“Average Happiness” by Maja Gehrig received an Award of Distinction in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs, and stock market curves join in a collective climax.
About Maja Gehrig
Maja Gehrig (CH), born in 1978 in Zürich. Following a preparatory course at Zürcher Hochschule der Kunste (1999-2000), she spent two years at Fachhochschule Aarau, Media Arts department (2000-2002) before taking up an internship at Eesti Joonisfilm, Tallinn…
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