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  • Echoing Narcissus -
    Echoing Narcissus is an interactive sound-sculpture in the form of a well, covered in copper sheet and printed circuit boards. It is a re-telling of Ovid's myth of Narcissus and Echo. All sounds made in the proximity of the sculpture are lowered in...
  • Liquid Language -
    It is an experiement in fluid text. Text appears on the screen, dissolves and transforms continuously, resulting in a representation of a wandering stream of consciousness. The structure of the work revolves around the three themes : forgetting,...
  • Time Stratum III -
    Toshio Iwai about Time Stratum III: "In this work, in order to achieve a greater scale of 3-dimensional effect, I used 3 acrylic domes to place hundreds of moving shapes. I used 4 computers, one for the real-time performance of music and sending the...
  • Time Stratum II -
    Toshio Iwai about Time Stratum II: "In this installation, I placed 120 paper human figures on a motorised spinning disk. Iset up a video monitor above them, while strobing the light down, the paper figures all burst into motion.

    By using a video...
  • Otocky -
    Designed by popular Japanese multimedia artist Toshio Iwai, "Otokki" or Otocky (which is the appropriate spelling that appears on the game's main title screen) was released for the Famicom Disk System in 1987. Otocky may be best described as a...
  • Sky -
    Sky is a collection of conceptual pieces to transform nuclear weapons into works of art. (Iris-Project) (source: http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/papers/CAE_catalogue_MTL.pdf#search=%22george%20gessert%20iris%22)
  • Microvenus -
    Joe Davis concepted "Microvenus" explicitly as an artwork and living art. His aim is the investigation of possibilities of communication with aliens and the search of longliving informaiton carriers. The main aim of the project is the investigation...
  • Poetica Vaginal -
    In this project, Davis broadcast recorded vaginal contractions of ballerinas and beamed this interpretation of ‘human conception’ to the Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti star systems using Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Millstone radar. In 1995,...
  • Digital Mudra -
    "Digital Mudra" begins with a collection of photographs from Rapoport's interactive performance entitled Biorhythm (1983). Participants, to test their own evaluation of their biorhythm condition against a computer assessment of their...
  • A New Life -
    Digital video 4 mins 8 secs
    colour, stereo
    sound by Jon Rose

    A NEW LIFE is a digitally produced video tape loosely based around Dante's first novel The New Life. In addition it draws upon a number of works by the early Renaissance Italian...