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  • ... a landscape of spectacle and surveillance: the everywhere and endlessly reflecting 'curtain wall'... the dark glasses of security infrastructure. Newer utopias, such as those being propagated via TV fantasy shows, fantasy Malls, and idealized...
  • The Savant Guard -
    ... was that the booth lights up, reacting to the movements of passersby, marking it as a kind of placeholder for its obsolete security function (now taken over by security cameras). In our experiments with lighting the booth, we found we were always...
  • Non-weddings -
    ... that serve as a search tool. The play is, as the author states, on the linguistic set of signifier and signified, on a secondary level on the reading of this set by Jacques Lacan, and on a third level on the friction between language and a mere trace...
  • Universal Translator -
    ... using only the sounds provided over the recent past by the interactors. The video aspect of this work is intended to be secondary to the audio. The screen is initially black. When the microphone hears a sound, the video of the mouth fades up into...
  • Taken -
    ... gallery visitors are extracted from the ground of the gallery floors and walls, and then looped back onto themselves at 20 second intervals. The result is that every action that has taken place in the gallery since the computer was turned on occurs...
  • Fascinum -
    ... Alessandro Ludovico: ‘Fascinum’, addresses the most viewed news pictures and anticipated in a way the ‘most popular’ section on Flickr. How much are we looking for sign and pictures we need to belong to? Christophe Bruno: Fascinum is a Yahoo Hack. Back in...
  • ... The areas can be experienced just by strolling through them. Each projection consists of one video loop lasting between 90 seconds and six minutes. In these projections, weather and global energy balance phenomena are set to the sounds of social events...
  • Flight Patterns -
    ... project which records voices across the globe singing together. Aaron Koblin also created House of Cards in the Code section of the exhibition
  • Cheap Imitation -
    ... to represent the dynamics of the movement of the nude in the act of decending the staircase. Interestingly, activating small sections fo the work sometimes results in images that echo the mechanical/organic feel and sparse layout of Duchamp's...
  • Season in Hell -
    ...After four turbulent years serving the President, Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art & Technology took back the Department and made it his own. With the spectre of Orf as his guide (who bears witness to deteriorating conditions of the...