Ars Electronica Festival · 2017
Best of Luck with the Wall
by Josh Begley
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2017
“Best of Luck with the Wall” by Josh Begley received a Honorary Mention in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2017.
A voyage across the US-Mexico border, stitched together from 200,000 satellite images. What does the southern border of the United States look like? For all the talk of “securing the border” and “building a wall,” there is surprisingly little visual material that conveys just how vast this stretch of space is.
About Josh Begley
Josh Begley (US), born in 1984, is a data artist and app developer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the creator of Metadata+, an iPhone app that tracks US drone strikes.
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