Ars Electronica Festival · 2004
Banlieue du Vide
by Thomas Köner
🏆 Golden Nica · Prix Ars Electronica 2004
Thomas Köner's “Banlieue du Vide” was honoured with the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2004, category Digital Musics & Sound Art.
“Seeing can often be a balance between staring, which means that you concentrate your attention on an object right in front of you, and the mobility of a look that could be qualified as absentminded.” This balance is at work in Thomas Köner´s Banlieue du Vide (2003), which uses webcam pictures of winter landscapes.
About Thomas Köner
Thomas Köner (D), born 1965, works with sound art, film music, video, remix radio-play and audiovideoinstallation. Between 1987 and 1992, Köner attended the Musikhochschule Dortmund.
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