Ars Electronica Festival · 2001
Signwave Auto-Illustrator
by Adrian Ward
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2001
“Signwave Auto-Illustrator” by Adrian Ward received a Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2001.
Although presented much like a traditional piece of graphic design software, Auto-Illustrator expresses a vast new way of treating codeas a creative extension of the self. The routines of Auto-Illustrator have been imbued with coded implementations of the author/artist’s creative decision-making process.
About Adrian Ward
Adrian Ward (UK) works as a software artist, developing interactive generative visual and audio applications. Concerned primarily with issues of authorship and the extension of aesthetic subjectivity into code, he is engaged with a number of projects that…
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