Perhaps the prize will generate gallery or museum interest in his work.
Created and curated by Gils alongside Theo Triantafyllidis, the Unity3D-generated gallery showcases a series of digitally-rendered dynamic elements by UCLA's graduates and emergent new media artists, including Adam Ferriss, kyttenjanae, Neil Mendoza, and more, and offers viewers a chance to explore and navigate into an uncanny, digital dog-filled universe (please don't forget to feed them).
Even though sometimes hashtags are used to get more followers, they also allow you to become a part of the creative dynamics which express a certain photographic style and is not about getting more likes but generating a gallery of high quality images.
But the continuing twists and turns of this election have generated their own gallery of curios, akin to the hanging chads and updates from Katherine Harris in the 2000 presidential election.
For instance, the referee's circular movement was conceived as the public eye, which then became the circular cut throughout the building and generated the public gallery ramp system.
2pad, the company that makes 2tweet, allows users to mine their Email boxes for pictures and videos and automatically generate web galleries with them (if you enter your login credentials, it can also monitor your incoming and outgoing messages for new media and automatically add it to the gallery).
The eventual user-generated gallery is next door (closed until summer).
Multiple gallery shows generated media attention and weighty catalogs of his oeuvre were published, building up the artist into a serious commercial asset by the 1990s.
And that is precisely the point: arguably what distinguishes Aelita's work is that there is a story behind it and at least a modicum of pedigree, as she has now shown her works in several galleries and generated some press to boot.
The four shaded galleries are generated and moulded from the territory: that of Martis lies in a valley, in Bulzi it follows the crest of a hill, the Laerru one winds along and peters out along the promontory and, finally, that of Perfugas is strategically placed to dominate the valley.
