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...MediascapeArtist: Marikki HakolaComment:

In a playful spirit of philosophical inquiry, Beyond explores the paradoxes of technology, desire and the paranormal posed since the birth of mechanical reproduction: the phonograph severing the voice from the body, photography capturing the soul

... are invited to generate images by typing in their own phrases, comparing them with the wall displayed images produced by the artist. The program uses the "2D mid-point displacement fractal algorithm to generate tonal complexity and the initial tone...

...The Clearing is an interactive installation artwork that focuses on the language of American print media's representation of the Bosnian crisis during the 1993-1994 period based on material culled from the archives of the Oakland Data Center. In its dormant...

... museum of the Communist Party. The museum space currently houses the Peter Ludwig collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art. The original contents of the former museum have been placed into storage since 1990 or moved into the Museum of Contemporary...

Slippery Traces is a multi-linear visual narrative in which viewers navigate through a network of over 240 interconnected postcards classified into 24 categories or chapters. The intention of the work has been to explore database structures as a

... themselves and their day-to-day world. The data were collected at institutions where I taught in San Francisco and Stuttgart. The participants were asked to list brief descriptions of everyday situations, systems, issues of technology in their lives and...

... one image from amongst a set of ten possibilities. Every so often, the reflection scenes are animated. Depending on the particular make-up of the database, (which objects the audience has invested time in front of), the program shows a matrix schemata...

... to follow individuals walking in front of the tracking camera over the main circular entrance space of the Siemens Headquarters. These characters are programmed to behave like the flocking movement of flying insects. When the computer detects that the...

... techno and other pop music to create a sense of rhythmic and repetitive action. They replay at varying rates, and show their artifice through back and forth cycling. In conjunction with the moving images, short texts appear superimposed on the images at...