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  • Seed/Tree - video
    SEED /TREE (2005) Installation/Butoh Performance/Live Electronics This project was created during an “artist in residence” program at the ZKM (Centre for Media Art in Karlsruhe, Germany). Feelings, associations, mental images and spontaneous
  • An Ascent
    video, 7,08’ By mixing colourful abstract light patterns and fragments of figurative reality the video aims to visualize a kind of inner psychological landscape, where words, thoughts, memories, emotions and desires combine and coexist in a highly
  • Nebulae
    acryl, pastel and marker on paperdim: 68 x 88 cm (each), series (6) Reminiscent of clouds of interstellar dust and ionized gases, this series of drawings is technically based on abstract templates derived from microscopic recordings. Thus, the
  • Water Catalogue Linear Video 1984 1984, 27:30 min, color, sound A lyrical fusion of hypnotic images, original music and spoken narrative text, The Water Catalogue is a meditation on the power and poetry of water. In this impressionistic "video
  • Telling Motions Bill Seaman 1985-86, 20:10 min, color, sound This dreamlike, hypnotic work is structured in four sections, each of which repeats, in various permutations, key visual and verbal systems. Part One introduces the main theme — a poetic
  • Transcendence Index -
    The installation consists of the following 2 parts: – a software program which analyzes texts of two periods (1900-1917 and 2000-2017) in order to calculate the index of their transcendence; – a robotic device which cooks 2 borschts (borscht is a
  • Duke Performances, Durham, 2018 - world premiere A bold new opera developed at Duke University that uses the high-drama framework of opera and advanced technology to explore ideas of apocalypse, renewal, and survival in the modern age. During each
  • The 'Engine of Engines' is a generative sound & video installation that responds in real-time to network traffic in the local environment. In the Hong Kong debut (see video), sixteen self-contained nodes, each composed of a screen, processing-unit,
  • 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
  • T-wo.gen
    The text from The World Generator / The Engine of Desire was printed out and put into a physical installation. The spoken text was presented in the space. The Illusive Nature of Context: The Negotiation of the Thoughtbody Bill Seaman The World