DAVID CLARK, CANADA
David Clark is a media artist who lives and works in Halifax, Canada. He is known for his website ‘A is for Apple' ( www.aisforapple.net ) that has been shown at over 50 film festivals around the world including Sundance, SIGGRAPH, Transmediale in Berlin and the American Museum of the Moving Image. ‘A is for Apple' won ‘Best in Show' at the 2003 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas and First Prize at FILE2002 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has made a feature film; ‘Maxwell's Demon', numerous shorter videos and installations works. He is a member of the new media collective ‘computer.says.no' who have made an interactive non-linear film “Meanwhile” and an interactive new media piece: “Touch and Go” for the Toronto International Airport. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Program in New York, and the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. He currently teaches film and media arts at NSCAD University in Halifax. His personal website is www.chemicalpictures.net.
http://www.88constellations.net
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 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein, web art, 2010
This is an interactive, non-linear net.art piece that, through a series of animated vignettes created in Flash, explores the life and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Each of the 88 sections corresponds to one of the 88 constellations in the night sky. Each constellation becomes a navigation device for the viewer to negotiate the associative relationships between these vignettes. As well, viewers can interact with each collaged animation using their left hand to trigger events from the computer keyboard (in homage to Ludwig Wittgenstein's brother Paul – a concert pianist who lost his right arm in WWI but continued his career performing piano works composed for the Left Hand). This work considers questions that Ludwig Wittgenstein pondered in his career as a philosopher: logic, language, the nature of thinking, and the limits of knowledge – all in relation to our contemporary digital world.
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