Ars Electronica Festival · 2014
Disarming Corruptor
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2014
In 2014, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Disarming Corruptor” by Matthew Plummer Fernández (Interactive Art) with an Award of Distinction.
*Disarming Corruptor* is a tool for doing reversible damage to your STL mesh file—the file format that describes the 3D surfaces used in computer-aided design and manufacture. This means you can obliterate it into something totally unrecognizable, share it online under its new guise, and selectively distribute the key…
About Matthew Plummer Fernández
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez (UK), born in 1982 in London, makes art in order to critically and playfully examine emerging technology and culture. Plummer-Fernandez received his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2009, after a BEng in computer-aided mechanical…
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