Team cHmAn's “Banja” was honoured with the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2001, category Net Based Art.
"Banja" by the French group Team cHmAn is a pioneering online game that exploits and impels the possibilities of ingenious Flash programming in a fresh and previously unattained way. On the boundary line between a server and an online game, "Banja" proposes a complete world of entertainment contents.
About Team cHmAn
Founded in March 1998 by Sébastian Kochman and Bernard Candau, TEAMcHmAn establishes its activities in an overflowing multimedia creativity and organises its growth by following a vision: that of a new type of content, highly creative, interactive, communal…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.