Topic: The Deep Listener, PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA, THE 2021 WINNERS
Category: Computer Animation (CA)
Authors: Jakob Kudsk Steensen (DK)
Abstract: The Deep Listener (2019) is an audio-visual ecological expedition through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, the area surrounding the Serpentine Galleries. Designed as an augmented reality and spatial audio work downloadable as an app for mobile devices, it is both a site-specific public artwork and a digital archive of species that live within the park. It pushes the utility of augmented reality and technological tools to transform our spatial understanding of the natural world. The commission expands upon Kudsk Steensen’s practice of merging the organic, ecological, and technological in the building of complex worlds in order to tell stories about our current environmental reality.
Keywords: Deep Listener, Serpentine Galleries, Animation, Interaction Device, Augmented Reality, Slow Media
