Ars Electronica Festival · 1997
Munich Samba
by Matt Heckert
🏆 Golden Nica · Prix Ars Electronica 1997
In 1997, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Munich Samba” by Matt Heckert (Digital Musics & Sound Art) with the Golden Nica. Explore 1 other work by Matt Heckert below.
"Munich Samba" by Matt Heckert can operate automatically, as a kind of moving, noise-making sculpture rather than a piece with a beginning, middle and end, but it can also be "performed" so that form can be shaped to produce different degrees of relative stasis and activity, with deliberately calculated and controlled…
About Matt Heckert
Matt Heckert (USA) has been working as a performance and sound artist since 1978. In the 80’s he worked as one of the directors of Survial Research Laboratories building robots and designing soundtracks for the performances and for film.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.