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  • Global Direct -
    ... through creatively structuring participatory governance. The research into modern state’s systems provided the material to redesign the actual flowcharts of parliaments, courts, and other governmental organs and functions for making them participatory,...
  • ... hack of the "Search Inside" service. We stole complete digital volumes of books, reassembled them into .pdf format and redistributed them for free. The project generated reactions from the press, which then posed embarrassing questions to Amazon. The...
  • ... credit without interest. Gift Finance is the democratic creation of money directly regulated by ordinary people in order to redistribute wealth in society. The website P2PGiftCredit.com allows people to generate unique virtual card numbers and send them to...
  • ... den Künstler und sein Publikum jede Menge Apparate und Apparaturen geschoben. Kommunikation geschieht geplant, kontrolliert, reduziert, erweitert – kurz: posthuman. Dabei wird in Kauf genommen, dass jedes Device bereits die Aufmerksamkeit des Performers vom...
  • ...In its 2006 Gallery, the journal Nature chose an image that spatially lays out different areas of science in a plane. It is a reduction of a large-format (42" x 43") paper print. The map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 scientific papers (shown as white dots)...
  • ... creates "pavilions of absence" in which images of contemporary artists, whose works in public space have been censored, are reduced to gold silhouettes and placed in the midst of terms of transgression. Each erased silhouette stands for countless unknown or...
  • ... Endowment for the Arts. In these "pavilions of absence," images of contemporary artists whose works have been censored are reduced to gold silhouettes and placed in the midst of terms of transgression. Each erased silhouette stands for countless unknown or...
  • Liquid Views - video
    ... everyone's identity is transformed into a stream of variable and interchangeable data, allowing the viewer to alter or redefine their identity at will." Everything is as if, the water as well as the reflection. The blurring and dissolving of the image...
  • ... with objects on the tabletop environment. What is special about the Responsive Workbench is that it offers an interface that redirects the usual view on a small, isolating screen into a three-dimensional, discursive data space for multiple viewers. All of...
  • ... circumstances public space can prove to be lethal, and as a consequence 'Gemütlichkeit' might be a quality worth while being rediscovered collectively." Micz Flor, Public Netbase