Ars Electronica Festival · 1996

Supercollider

by Trevor Blackwell

🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1996

Trevor Blackwell's “Supercollider” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1996, category Net Based Art.

From across the Internet, elementary particles of information are accelerated to nearly the speed of light. They travel in opposite directions around the giant fiber ring, meeting in the collision chamber. The collisions release small but massive information particles, scattered in all directions.

— Prix Ars Electronica Archive

About Trevor Blackwell

Trevor Blackwell is a graduate student of Computer Science, working at Aiken 69, Harvard University; his main research interests involve fast SVCs for ATM Networks and Flow Control in ATM Networks.

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