FW: WORLD OF AWE RECEIVES THE LEWIS CARROLL ARGOS PRIZE

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WORLD OF AWE RECEIVES THE LEWIS CARROLL ARGOS PRIZE

World of Awe receives the Lewis Carroll Argos prize at the 19th
Rencontres Internationales de L'audiovisuel ScientifiqueN-a
rendezvous for scientists and media, presented by the Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. The theme
of the conference and festival was language.

The Argos Prize is organized by the International Scientific
Audiovisual Conference N Image and Science, and the UNESCO's
International Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication
Council.

The Lewis Carroll Argos Prize is awarded to a web site for its
originality, the unpredictability of the information and
encounters which it offers, and it's concern for inaugurating
trans-continental dialogue and create elective affinities on the
web.

SIGNING UP FOR LANGUAGE
Boris Razon, Lemonde.fr

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World of Awe treats the medium like a language. This is turned
into a sum of perceptible experiences, which cannot be formulated
using words, images or sounds alone, only by combining them in a
new architecture. It uses signs insofar as it tells us that
learning means considering a matter, being or object as though it
emitted signs to be deciphered and interpenetrated. "All
apprentices are 'Egyptologists' of something," writes Gilles
Deleuze in "Proust et les Signes," and World of Awe turns us all
into anonymous Champollions. And can there be anything more
satisfying than being an apprentice on the web today?


JOURNAL OF A FICTIONAL TRAVELLER

You do not need any white rabbits or rabbit holes to enter World
of Awe. Nor do you need to drink a magic portion to engage in the
dreamlike world of this multifaceted site. Small capsules filled
with colored granules are the keys that open the doors in the
space recording the traveller's journey. Like Lewis Carroll's
story, peopled with strange creatures, the site is a place to
explore the imagination, where the logical structures of reason
and common sense are willingly subverted by the site's creator
Yael Kanarek. The digital travel log is this adventurer seeking a
lost treasure in Silicon canon is the pretext for exploring
different avenues of digital creation and an opportunity for
different forms of collaboration. Around the tale itself, the
author as woven links, both online and in the art galleries, to
provide a multimedia backdrop of music, interactive writing and
3D pictures. This is an initiatory quest both for the fictional
character and his creator, a puppeteer pulling the strings of a
creature made from pixels and electrons. This interdisciplinary
project, launched in 1995, is a "long-haul" journey, which above
and beyond its aesthetic qualities, constitutes a discussion
about the continuing relationship between storytelling, memory,
travel and technology. What with e-love letters, a graveyard of
old computer components and the voice of the soprano singing the
digital ode to the absent lover, this is a cocktail lacking in
neither ingenuity nor humor, within which feelings intertwine in
complete harmony.




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