Ars Electronica Festival · 1996
WebEarth
by Mark Pesce
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1996
Mark Pesce's “WebEarth” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1996, category Net Based Art.
While Aristophanes measured the curvature of the Earth's surface over two thousand years ago, until the Apollo astronauts photographed the "big blue marble", we had no visible - hence apprehendible -model of the body of the planet.
About Mark Pesce
Mark Pesce (USA) is a Cyberspace researcher and theorist, he is currently working on his third book Why in the World Wide Web?, which focuses on contextual examination of the rapidly unfolding developments in the human Noosphere, vis-a-vis Internet and…
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