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  • ... electricity. We are filled with new doubts and new hopes of electrical life, as we look back at our shared history with this technology. In the back room, which was likely the dental surgery, we find a monitoring station with a signal board showing...
  • ... in the electronic city. Accompanying the work is a gallery of "window figures", ranging from Vermeer's geographer to the techno-voyeur (via guards, protestors, exhibitionists and more). See video for details.
  • Changes of State -
    ... every day, was up for 5 evenings at the theatre and on the street outside it. The principal idea was that "digital" technologies typically involve atleast two states, both equally valuable. For example, on and off, typical states in an electrical...
  • ... telegraph, in particular those made by the Catalan scientist Francesc Salvá. It examines the metaphors encoded within technology, especially lost or orphaned technologies and tries to trace their origins, speculating on the way that mechanisms are the...
  • ...Combining public art with mobile technology, Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer presented the world premiere of "Open Air," Sept. 20 - Oct. 14, 2012. Commissioned by the Association for Public Art, "Open Air" is a spectacular interactive light experience...
  • Windscreen -
    ... or even electricity. This experimental approach became an installation work that I am calling windscreen. Here, much technology was wilfuly discarded, and replaced with a single force - the wind Wind has a checkered history in the arts, Kinetic art...
  • Elevator's Music -
    ... “Elevator’s Music”, visits the topic of synthetic creatures becoming sentient. What if centuries from now, we had the technology to make any machine self-aware? In this distant future, if an elevator could be self-aware, what would it be like? What might an...
  • Sleep Walking -
    ...In the next thirty years we will see more robotic technology integrated into our society, furthering our experience of reality through agency. Robots already go beyond the limitations of our bodies. They build things that we find too difficult or tedious, assist us in...
  • Image Fulgurator -
    ... also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others. Technically, the Image Fulgurator works like a classical camera, though in reverse. In a normal camera, the light reflected from an...
  • Unending Closure -
    ...The events that have unfolded since the turn of the century, in addition to the unending technological parade of innovation and the bloating of Media influence over the world has yielded not a people that enjoy Sunday afternoon picnics on the moon, but a...