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Non-weddings was inspired by a drawing by Jacques Lacan in “L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient”, as I realized that the Internet search engines had some similarities with this presentation (cf Google Image). The drawing by Lacan was

Artworks Fascinum December, 2001 Fascinum is a Yahoo Hack. It shows in real-time the news pictures the most viewed (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo portals. The viewer surfs at the top of the infotainment wave and experiments

My first net.art piece, Epiphanies is a conceptual Google Hack inspired by James Joyce’s definition of the epiphany. It is considered as one of the very first pieces of “Google Art”, probably the first… In 2001, Google wasn’t yet the Internet

A tomb made of cardboard packing boxes. Inside, a primate-lab cage and a mechanism. That moves a computer controlled monkey's paw and a light source that slowly draw the face of Jim Pomeroy (1946-1992) in phosphorescent pigment.

The installation ensemble, «The Edison Effect» connects the Ages of Mechanical, Electronic, and Digital Audio-Technologies. Different interactive systems probe the acoustic inscriptions of vinyl discs, and other objects, with the help of laser beams

Flames, suitably modulated by electric fields, can be made to act as omnidirectional loudspeakers of surprising loudness and clarity. Each flame, captive within its cage, recites the words of a famous orator 1935-1936.

Based on a hydraulic microphone and spark gap transmitter devised by Q.Majorana and G. Vanni in 1905. A stream of vitriolic acid, modulated by sound waves, controlled the flow of electricity to the transmitter and used to make the very first long

A memorial - and a warning - for the Jasmine Revolutions of the 2011 Arab Spring. A soft rain of jasmine flowers promises freedom - but the viewer is trapped in a golden cage.

Live dance performance with realtime interactive 3D virtual world as stage set. The dance performance "In the Land of Babari-an" is an inner journey in which the dancers, Shinichi Iova-Koga and Ishide Takuya, incorporate their own East/West

Short excerpt from the 2003 appropriation piece "Last Words," created by pioneering Chinese video artist Zhang Peili and showcased here by Saamlung, one of his collaborating spaces.