Ars Electronica Festival · 2016

Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds

by Yoichi Ochiai

🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2016

In 2016, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds” by Yoichi Ochiai (Interactive Art) with a Honorary Mention.

How can our imagination be materialized? From the dawn of humanity, imagination has been expressed in two ways: via images - by employing drawn images and motion pictures to form the protons for our eyes, and via sculptures - by fabricating statues and installations to materialize three-dimensional objects in the real…

— Prix Ars Electronica Archive

About Yoichi Ochiai

Yoichi Ochiai (JP), born in 1987, is a media artist and assistant professor of University of Tsukuba and Head of its Digital Nature Group. He holds a PhD in Applied Computer Science from the University of Tokyo.

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