Ars Electronica Festival · 1991
Orpheus: Current Diversions
by Don Ritter
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1991
“Orpheus: Current Diversions” by Don Ritter received a Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 1991.
”I am envious of musicians' abilities to create living art, because visual artists seem limited to creating the dead. Preferring the living to the non-living, and being a visual artist and not a musician, this conclusion has caused considerable discomfort to my artistic motivation.
About Don Ritter
Don Ritter's education includes undergraduate degrees in fines arts & psychology (University of Waterloo, 1986), electronics engineering technology (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, 1979) and a Master of Science in Visual Studies (Center for Advanced…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.