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  • Slapstick
    Inflatable supertube indicating the height of the controversial planned new town hall.
  • The first interactive moviemap was produced at MIT in the late 1970s of Aspen, Colorado. A gyroscopic stabilizer with 16mm stop-frame cameras was mounted on top of a camera car and a fifth wheel with an encoder triggered the cameras every 10 feet....
  • Suncycle
    SuncycleArtist: Jeffrey ShawComment:
  • Swimmer
    The swimmer is performing movements which can be seen as completely natural, yet they contain a vital contradiction, a double meaning: swimming as a way of surviving. At the same time as the swimmer is having a pleasurable experience of the element...
  • Inflatable tubing burst through a wall of brick-printed plastic that covered the shop window. This tubing was then taken into the street and used to signal the boundaries of controversial urban renewal planning in this area.
  • Teardrop
    A large air-inflated teardrop hung from a crane and proclaimed the theme of the festival as well as the Javaphile performance Tearfall.
  • Environmental Media Studies explored new ways of representing landscape and place.

    Moving Movie #1 (1977) was an inexpensive modest study made at MIT. I was obsessed with why movie cameras move and movie projectors don’t, and filmed the Boston...
  • Moving Movie - video
    Moving Movie #1 (1977) was an inexpensive modest study made at MIT. I was obsessed with why movie cameras move and movie projectors don’t, and filmed the Boston landscape with a Super8 movie camera mounted on a slowly rotating turntable. The film is...
  • A custom laser scanning system was developed that could project the laser beam as shaped planes and cones of light in a full 360-degree space around the projector. Scanning and rotation of the laser mirrors was controlled by a specially made analog...
  • Pig
    A helium-inflated pig was specially made for the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album. It was flown over the Battersea Power Station for the photograph, but accidentaly got free and flew many kilometers over London and landed in the countryside -...