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  • Faraday's Garden -
    In Faraday's Garden, participants walk through a landscape of
    innumerable household and office appliances, power tools, projectors, radios, phonographs, and various other personal comfort devices (collected from thrift stores and flea...
  • Systems Maintenance consists of three versions of a furnished room. An ensemble of life-sized furniture occupies a large circular platform on the floor, a virtual room is displayed on a computer monitor, and a 1/8 size physical scale model of the...
  • Cathartic User Interface 1.0 and 2.0 (CUI) are interactive,
    multi-participant installations that allow users to quickly and
    effectively work through their conflicting emotions concerning the
    benevolent yet pernicious influences of computer...
  • Workaholic
    A pendulum hangs from the ceiling, with an omnidirectional bar code scanner as the bob (the weight) at the end of the cable. The scanner casts an intense red laser beam downward as it skims the floor, reading symbols printed on a 12 foot diameter bar...
  • ZOMBIAC consists of a large number of computer terminals and
    workstations, ranging in vintage from the 1970s to the present. Each computer has been "zombified": all the original electronics have been removed, transforming them into mindless...
  • Bar Code Hotel recycles the ubiquitous symbols found on every consumer product to create an multi-user interface to an unruly virtual environment. The installation makes use of a number of strategies to create a casual, social, multi-person...
  • Recording quality priority: the 16-bit-recording quality is the
    selection criterion for the sound selection of turing tuning. This
    results in a "deauthorization" of the sound material from the original context of its production in order to be...
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