Arijana Kajfes's “Occular Witness” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2006, category Interactive Art.
Occular Witness is a project about light and vision. It is a study, both physically and metaphorically, of light as a carrier of information and meaning. On the photonic level, light is seen as the pre-cognitive and pre-linguistic smallest component for the transmission of information.
About Arijana Kajfes
Arijana Kajfes (SE) is a visual artist working with electronic media and installation art. She has been a founding member of both CRAC (1997-1999), an artist driven media lab in Stockholm, and the Smart Studio, Interactive Institute (1999-2004) involved in…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.