Ars Electronica Festival · 2000
Discoder
by exonemo, Yae Akaiwa, Kensuke Sembo
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2000
In 2000, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Discoder” by exonemo, Yae Akaiwa and Kensuke Sembo (Net Based Art) with a Honorary Mention.
A “discoder” is a device which destroys HTML informatic code and its codes of behavior, a contradiction provider for the web. In this project the user “messes” with the web’s HTML internet metastructure. The tags in HTML slip, and the integrity of HTML source code is compromised, as if eaten by bugs.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.