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Creation Myth describes the birth of a new environment utilizing unique fractal and particle system software. It was designed for exhibition on Palladium's 50 monitor video display system. (Rebecca Allen)

Steady State was commissioned by TVE (Television of Spain) for a 14 part television series titled El Arte del Video (The Art of Video). This piece and other work by Allen were featured in the program, Computers in Video Art. (Rebecca Allen)

Laberint is a single-channel video based on the Platonic myth that woman and man were once one androgynous form. Live-action and computer generated characters weave between real and virtual worlds. Commissioned by Catalunya Television (TVC), the

Inversion (2001) is a new dance/installation, a collaboration with the Dancer/Choreographer Regina van Berkel that explores the topic of Nanotechnology through a poetic text, a musical score, the A Hybrid Invention Generator like system functioning

The Hybrid Invention Generator (2001) is a work that explores a "machinic genetics." Users of the system can scroll through a series of inventions, choose two different inventions and generate the visualization of a hybrid invention. An underlying

Exchange Fields (2000), commissioned by the Vision Ruhr Exhibition in Dortmund Germany, incorporates the recorded dance and choreography of Regina van Berkel. The programmer Gideon May also became involved in this project. The central question dealt

Red Dice / Des Chiffré (2000) was commissioned by the Canadian National Gallery and is now in their permanent collection. Seaman again worked with Chris Ziegler on the programming of the work. The work presents a text by the Poet Stéphane Mallarmé -

The Engine of DesireArtist: Bill SeamanComment:

Passage Sets / One Pulls Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue (1995) is an interactive installation that functions as an elaborate navigable audio/visual poem. Seaman worked with Chris Ziegler as the programmer for this work. Three projections comprise

The second major interactive installation was entitled The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers (1993). It should be noted that many of Seaman's works were shown in different states and /or alternate contexts. Each version of the work informs other