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  • There are many ways to "locate" a city, and oneself within it. One way is to distance oneself from it - to look it up in an atlas, a picture, or to go out to sea or up a hill to watch the twinkling lights, and point out the sights we know. Another
  • Extruder -
    The automobile is a fascinating machine. Since its inception the automobile has driven us faster and faster into the future. Carving out the modern world, it has done brilliantly, reproducing itself by the multi-millions. Along the way it has
  • Drawing Machine 3.1415926 v. 2 explores the notion of generative art or art that makes art on its own. The piece consists of a three tiered mobile sculpture that is driven by the vibration of a motor. This vibration is controlled in two ways. First
  • Breathing Chaos -
    Year:2004 (short film, 8min 11sec) Sachiko Kodama Sound by Ippei Ogura Breathing Chaos is a short film that uses the dynamic forces of nature to suggest that life emerges from the expression of physical power. Themes include the chaos of
  • Dreamlogs -
    “You can only command language by obeying it” (G. Perec & M.Bénabou, P.A.L.F. project, OuLiPo 1964) Dreamlogs are an idea association engine. They propose another way to surf on the Internet, by disentangling the discourses that have interlaced
  • A tomb made of cardboard packing boxes. Inside, a primate-lab cage and a mechanism. That moves a computer controlled monkey's paw and a light source that slowly draw the face of Jim Pomeroy (1946-1992) in phosphorescent pigment.
  • love, piracy, and the office of religious weblog expansion, 2009 http://ambienttv.net/love Mixed media (performance, installation, online project, artists’ book) Text based on an interview with Ali Alizadeh by Mukul Patel, February 2008
  • "Seismoscope 2: Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali", 2009 Persian (1058-1111), author of "The Incoherence of Philosophers" 16.1" x 17.7" x 6.7" / 41 x 45 x 17 cm, XY Plotter 45.2" x 16.1" x 17.7" / 115 x 41 x 45 cm podium 11" x 17" / 28
  • Firebirds
    Flames, suitably modulated by electric fields, can be made to act as omnidirectional loudspeakers of surprising loudness and clarity. Each flame, captive within its cage, recites the words of a famous orator 1935-1936.