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  • Speakeasy is a telephone service that connects new immigrants with bilingual community members who are familiar with local resources and social service options. This project provides access to language interpretation wherever it is needed. To use
  • Poetry Machine -
    The visitor enters a dimly lit room. On a projection screen runs the text that is written by nobody. The keys of the keyboard move as if by a ghost's hand. A monotone, mechanical voice reads out the generated text, sentence by sentence.
  • ASCII_Fur_Engine -
    The ASCII_Fur_Engine is a program-routine that creates random patterns of ascii-characters based on a set of parameters. These patterns can vary in size, shape, color etc. and thus have a wide range of flavors. None of the created ascii-furs is
  • Pikapika -
    Meet Pikapika--a character influenced by anime and manga; Japanese pop animation and comics. Pikapika embodies movements from bunraku (puppet theater), a movement vocabulary Tomie Hahn studied while learning nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance)
  • Loc-reverb develops Colson’s themes of location and memory, concerns seen in an earlier CD-ROM "Mindtracker". Loc-reverb blends photography and moving elements to portray the artist’s interrogation of locations, in particular London. It presents the
  • Aural Limbo is a series of aural interventions of the public space, engaging passersby in an inhabitable instrument that uses the body presence and location as variables for the dynamic transformation of sound. In Lapse Modulation, the space is
  • Liquid Eden is a java-based Web project that visualizes the collective mark of networked communication. Gardens have both a symbolic and personal relevance to the project. As a frequent subject of landscape painting, they have been used to
  • Portrait One -
    Marie, a French-speaking Montrealer in her thirties played by actress Paule Ducharme, appears to be lost in reverie. You may try to get her attention: when selecting "Excuse me..." on the display, Marie suddenly stares at you; then, selecting "Do
  • Family Portrait -
    Imagine a portrait. You walk up to it and engage in conversation. You pick a question from a pre-established set on the screen. The portrait gives you an answer. A new set of questions, or coments appears. You get further reactions. As this
  • Uncontrolled Hermetic -
    Uncontrolled Hermetic featured a single life-size human figure 'bagged' in a bunny suit made of felt. The figure stood outside a clean room, which housed a Victorian drawing machine that makes self-generated drawings apparently without