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... with networks, signals, codes and other things you can not fully comprehend but may opt in to. The modern Pyrate Queen, is not...

This interactive real-time artwork comments on the volatility of the stock market and the ephemeral nature of wealth, through an exploration of the intersection of technology, finance and mythology. Harris employs live market data, organising

Virtual Book : Augmentation of a real book boosted by semantic text analysis. The Virtual Book (2006) The concept of the book as an interactive knowledge structure was inspired by Marvin Minsky's vision from the early 1990s. He said, "Can you

MARS—the Media Arts Research Studies at GMD (1995–2001) and at Fraunhofer (2001–2012) The MARS - Exploratory Media Lab, initiated and directed by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss since 1997, designed and developed research prototypes,

As global water levels and temperatures rise, plants and animals are mutating to adapt. Strange new creatures are arising at the interstices between plant and animal, questioning and transgressing the boundaries of what is considered to be reactive

... algae Alexandrium catenella causes toxic "red tides" (harmfull algal bloom) in Puget Sound and will thrive in warming waters. In...

ART + COM—An Interdisciplinary Media Lab in West-Berlin (1987–1992) How did it all start? In the mid-1980s, few people thought that everyone would have a computer in their home. It was a rather futuristic goal to explore the computer as a tool and

Exploring climate prediction as a game of chance and of skill, More Than Us offers us a glimpse of the astronomically huge dataspace we exist in. Two communities of colourful geometric shapes drawn, or ‘recycled’, from Suprematist paintings of the

This multipart work uses real-time data gathered from a colony of naked mole-rats, allowing a peek into their lives. The project reflects Julie Freeman’s fascination with their cooperative lifestyle and how it differs from human social organization.

Drawing by Numbers demonstrates the conversion process from an analogue life drawing to a digital drawing described in code. At a workshop at the Media Space in the Science Museum, London, participants could scan a recently completed life drawing