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  • new ocean -
    new oceanArtist: Doug AitkenComment:
  • This interactive video installation is a collaboration between myself and Camille Turner. This mediawork is an exploration of the sex, beauty and racial myths which are encountered by a young black Canadian woman and the various conflicting message
  • HAIR SALON TV was the first installation in a series juxtaposing technological icons of the 1950's (associated with women) and video imagery on issues which have been shaped and distorted by electronic communications technologies. In HAIR SALON
  • automated mirror sculpture (stainless steel mirrors, baltic birch, electrical motors) 76 3/4 x 41 1/2 x 8 inches 194.9 x 105.4 x 20.3 cm
  • the moment -
    Showing for the first time in the UK, The Moment is a vast kaleidoscopic audio-visual installation by Doug Aitken, capturing the acute sense of disorientation experienced on waking in an unfamiliar place. (Source:
  • glass era -
    Videoinstallation; 3 channels, 3 projections Ed. 2/4 3 Screens ea 225 x 300 cm
  • THE MEDUSA PROJECT (AUTOBIOGRAPHY) refers to the relationship between women and power as depicted in both ancient mythology, and in postmodern culture. It represents my attempt to directly merge personal history and influences into the production of
  • lighttrain -
    5 channel video installation Screen system: 190.5 x 315 x 11.5 cm. Room dimensions variable
  • egaku -
    egaku is a tabletop user interface designed to enhance the ideation process with seamless image management tools. Designers sketch ideas as the system captures high-resolution images of the sketches and organizes them in a transparent image
  • Reflexions - video
    His first interactive sound installation. Construction of some very bulky 8 x 8 pixel video cameras, connected then to a wire-wrapped card in the Apple ][ which digitized the images, and wrote a program for the Apple ][ which controlled a Korg MS-20