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  • 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
  • Video: The remix of President George W. Bush's 2005 State of the Union speech is set to Richard Wagner's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, a tale of two lovers who suffer a fateful embrace with love and death. In Bush's speech, a
  • The nation's Capital has been transformed into a mighty walled fortress, armed to the teeth, locked-down, swept-clean - all joy has been strangled - on any suspicion, they would pounce with the stealth of a wild beast. (source:
  • Video: In this excerpt, Orf engages the speed and power of the aircraft, a weapon of mass destruction in the 21st century, singing: swing low, sweet chariot coming for to carry me home, evoking the extremist allure of the afterlife. (source:
  • data.film -
    how many points are there in a line? What is the number of numbers? How can we verify that the random is random? data.film is part of the datamatics project, which is a series of experiments that explore such questions, physically and
  • db -
    Ikeda's sound installation in an anechoic chamber is intended to quite physically explode the senses. Using the highest and lowest frequencies that human ears can bear, db is a hyper-dense composition of sine waves, white noise and other elements,
  • spectraII -
    The installation relies on the intersection of sound and architecture and continues Ikeda's interest in phenomena - be they light, tone or sound - and how they materialise and manifest themselves in the world. The piece is built as a narrow,
  • A -
    date | place APR 26 - JUN 18, 2000 Hayward Gellery, London, UK tech spec speaker HHB Circle 5 8 power amplifier non-specific 4 8ch HD playback system AKAI DR8 1 white wall non-specific 2 white
  • One of the most ancient parables depicting the experience of self was the legend of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image reflected in a perfect pool of water. Narcissus ultimately destroyed himself in the unresolved predicament of
  • This sensation of absorption and the loss of one’s presence also finds its roots in the fear of souls being captured in mirrors. The Etruscan word for soul, hinthial, literally means, "image reflected in a mirror." [prototype installation] (source: