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...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 markets). The machines wait...

... The life-size furniture sits on a smooth black circular floor in the center of the room, eight meters in diameter. Each article of furniture is mounted on ball-bearing casters, so that, despite its mass, it can be moved easily. A color video camera with...

...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 technology on their...

... railing surrounds the pendulum and carpet, with holsters for eight pneumatic air-guns, disguised as ordinary hair dryers. Participants can influence the pendulum's path over the bar code carpet by aiming the hair dryers and shooting blasts of air. ...

... neighbors, thus forming spontaneous groupings that are being constantly reconfigured (somewhat like a cocktail party or an art opening). As visitors enter, sensors track their movements, triggering monitors to turn to "watch" them. The monitors emit...

... the computer system. The objects, each corresponding to a different user, exist as semi-autonomous agents that are only partially under the control of their human collaborators. Each guest who checks into the Bar Code Hotel dons a pair of 3D glasses...

... There is no beginning, no end, and no pause. Aesthetic optimization: Any evolution is teleological, also this artificial, computer-aided one. The machine compiles sequentially ordered structures, which are, by reproducing self-resembling...

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