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The handscroll Pacifying the South China Sea chronicles the suppression of piracy by the forces of the Jiaqing Emperor (r. 1796–1820). The scroll illustrates the events of the period in twenty different scenes, each abundant with detail depicting

The source material for this interactive installation is the Pacifying the South China Sea handscroll, painted by an anonymous Qing painter almost two hundred years ago. The scroll chronicles the story of how the forces of the Jiaqing Emperor

The Infinite Line proposes new modes of spectatorship in the performance of poetry. In the tradition of Oulipo, the ‘workshop of potential literature', this interactive installation gives visitors the opportunity to recombine the poetic ensemble of

Look Up Bombay is an installation in the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, where visitors to the museum lie down and look up into a dome to view images of ceilings of many of the most spectacular buildings in Bombay. It offers a unique

DREAMS REWIRED traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked

The FACELESS Project interrogates the culture of surveillance by redeploying authentic CCTV images recorded in London, the most surveilled city on Earth. These images are heavily inscribed by laws relating to privacy and freedom of information, and

CURATORIAL STATEMENT:Many of the prominent international practitioners in the field of software art could not participate in the first version of CODeDOC since the Whitney Museum is, by its mission, devoted to American artists (citizens and artists

CURATORIAL STATEMENT CODeDOC takes a reverse look at 'software art' projects by focusing on and comparing the 'back end' of the code that drives the artwork's 'front end'—the result of the code, be it visuals or a more abstract communication

All kinds of people are using their smartphones. The displays don’t show any apps – only the sensual movements of the hands. Each pair of hands plays both roles from Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” at the Sistine Chapel: God the father and Adam,

Figment offers an experience of the digital sublime, which overlaps with our perception of the digital, landscape, our relationship with each, and the fundamental questions that follow, peering into the nature of our existence. In Figment, rendered