Ars Electronica Festival · 1988

The Battle

by David Sherwin

🏆 Golden Nica · Prix Ars Electronica 1988

David Sherwin's “The Battle” was honoured with the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 1988, category Computer Graphics. Explore 1 other work by David Sherwin below.

The computer graphics image "The Battle" was created as a sort of visual improvisation. During the period when the piece was created David Sherwin was strongly influenced by Chinese and Tibetan dragon mythology. I work somewhat like a Jazz musician, I improvise visually. My work is purely stream of consciousness.

— Prix Ars Electronica Archive

About David Sherwin

David Sherwin started drawing at the age of 5. His father was a painter, so he was exposed to a lot of art. Mostly abstract expressionism. He has been drawing most of his life and started his formal training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in…

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