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Exchange Fields (2000), commissioned by the Vision Ruhr Exhibition in Dortmund Germany, incorporates the recorded dance and choreography of Regina van Berkel. The programmer Gideon May also became involved in this project. The central question dealt

Red Dice / Des Chiffré (2000) was commissioned by the Canadian National Gallery and is now in their permanent collection. Seaman again worked with Chris Ziegler on the programming of the work. The work presents a text by the Poet Stéphane Mallarmé -

... making choices from a spinning virtual interface of container wheels, from a physical interface table. These container wheels house...

The Engine of DesireArtist: Bill SeamanComment:

Passage Sets / One Pulls Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue (1995) is an interactive installation that functions as an elaborate navigable audio/visual poem. Seaman worked with Chris Ziegler as the programmer for this work. Three projections comprise

Abstraction Machine / Erotic - The Voyeur of Light (1994) was a site specific installation in a hotel room, Room 33 Gallery, Regent's Court Hotel, Sydney, Australia. The security viewer was inverted so that visitors could view into the room. A

The second major interactive installation was entitled The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers (1993). It should be noted that many of Seaman's works were shown in different states and /or alternate contexts. Each version of the work informs other

The first major interactive work was entitled The Watch Detail (1990). Video images, sound and text that addressed the subject of time were explored interactively. This work employed Macintosh Hypercard media, that was used to control an interactive

This collection of experimental interactive movies, made by the artist over several years, shows live-action works in which the visual metaphors for interaction are inherent in the filmic material. Because the movies are conceived from a visual

LORNA 1979-1983 A.D. A.D. "A precondition to video is that it does not talk back. It absorbs, rather than reflects." Preliminary Notes, 1981 While video was like a reflection that did not talk back, interactive works were like a trick, two