Ars Electronica Festival · 2023
Unerasable Characters Series
by Winnie Soon
🏆 Golden Nica · Prix Ars Electronica 2023
“Unerasable Characters Series” by Winnie Soon received the Golden Nica in the Artificial Life & Intelligence category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2023.
This body of work addresses the chilling scale and effect of state-enacted censorship, enforced through digital infrastructures. The three works presented act as lyrical repositories for suppressed voices, with each technically scrutinizing and poetically portraying tweets censored from Weibo, one of the biggest…
About Winnie Soon
Winnie Soon (HK/UK) is a Hong Kong-born artist coder and researcher interested in the cultural implications of digital infrastructure that addresses wider power asymmetries, engaging with themes such as Free and Open Source Culture, Coding Otherwise…
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