Ars Electronica Festival · 2005
The Universal Digest Machine
by Marius Watz
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2005
In 2005, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “The Universal Digest Machine” by Marius Watz (Net Based Art) with a Honorary Mention. Explore 1 other work by Marius Watz below.
A trip through the hyperuniverse of the World Wide Web on full autopilot: The Universal Digest Machine is an installation featuring a web spider that crawls the net, digesting web pages and outputting a brief analysis of their contents. The display unit is an industrial thermal printer mounted on a plinth.
About Marius Watz
Marius Watz (NO) discovered the computer at age 11 and immediately found his direction in life. In 1996 Watz was the exhibition coordinator of Electra at the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo.
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