Ars Electronica Festival · 2015

Temps Mort / Idle Times

by Alex Verhaest

🏆 Golden Nica · Prix Ars Electronica 2015

Alex Verhaest's “Temps Mort / Idle Times” was honoured with the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2015, category Computer Animation. Alex Verhaest has 1 more work in this atlas.

Alex Verhaest’s works are visual explorations and investigations of the nature and boundaries of language, communication and social conventions and the potential of contemporary storytelling. The basis of each project is a narrative script, existing or newly written, around which she creates a body of standalone works…

— Prix Ars Electronica Archive

About Alex Verhaest

Alex Verhaest (BE). During her MFA year, Verhaest traveled to China where she discovered the Asian hacker subculture. She was invited to participate in a six-month residency at the island6 Arts Center in Shanghai where she joined the former artist collective…

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