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  • ... Andréhn-Schiptjenko showed the installation Sustained where sculpture, painting, drawing, snapshots, paperclippings and a powerengine created a system ranging from global oil-trade to the failings of a president’s digestive system. The possibility of...
  • Desert rain -
    ... Research Group of the School of Computer Science at Nottingham University, UK. The piece was one of the most complex and powerful responses to the first Gulf War produced within the sphere of theatrical practice. Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s The...
  • Can you see me now? -
    ... players understanding that the runners are tired, cold, struggling with the environment on the KopVanZuid can become a powerful emotion. A player from Seattle wrote: "I had a definite heart stopping moment when my concerns suddenly switched from...
  • ... n o w h e r e. The sparkle around Wenzel Hablik's crystal is the transition to his Schöpferische Kräfte [Creative Powers] - a series of etchings [1912] that tell of the becoming and being of crystal, of birth, becoming and death. The cosmonaut - the...
  • Elastic Surgery -
    ... pixels. In the past this was possible only with a very expensive computer such as a Silicon Graphics Onyx, and even with powerful hardware the results weren't very impressive. Utilizing the newer very fast PC's coupled with optimized code and...
  • TeamWorkStation -
    ... to point to and draw on the overlaid images simultaneously. We chose video as the basic medium of TWS because it is the most powerful for fusing presentations of a variety of traditionally incompatible visual media such as papers and digital documents. ...
  • Pulse Front -
    ...Pulse Front was a matrix of light over Toronto’s Harbourfront, made with lightbeams from twenty powerful robotic searchlights, entirely controlled by a network of sensors that measured the heart rate of passers-by. Ten metal sculptures detected the pulse of people who...
  • Triangles -
    ... When the pieces contact one another, specific connections can trigger specific digital events, allowing a simple but powerful means of physically interacting with digital information. Users can create both two and three dimensional patterns whose...
  • ... water trickles down into the hanging barrel, slowly lowering it back to the ground. The cycle repeats. The system is solar powered. The pump is intermittent, according to the weather. The barrel moves at a lethargic pace. It may take weeks to be levitated...
  • ...sing pure data as a source for sound and visuals, datamatics combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space in a powerful and breathtakingly accomplished work. datamatics is the second audiovisual concert in Ryoji Ikeda's datamatics series, an...