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The coal tunnel has no architecture. Its walls consist of the stuff the mine produces. It has no exterior, an interior shaped by the task for which it is intended, surfaces that are nothing but raw materials, and a shape that must follow the coal

In his children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie describes an Ocean of Streams of Story containing currents of narrative in fluid form, "weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity."

Grahame Weinbren's Frames is an interactive, three-screen projection work, using infra-red sensor arrays to detect user input, combined with randomly accessible video under computer control. It was commissioned by the NTT InterCommunications

Interactive computer with custom software, 3d input devices, stereo sunglasses, rear-projected screen, human actor. (source: www.schkolne.com)

Interactive computer with custom software, 3d input devices, stereo sunglasses, rear-projected screen. (source: www. schkolne.com)

Experiments in creating 3D shape with the hand, conducted with Peter Schröder at Caltech, 1997-2002. (source: http://www.schkolne.com/)

The Schkolne Number is a dimensionless quantity representing the ratio of ones height to that of Steven Schkolne. (source: http://schkolnenumber.com/)

Oracular flames kept captive within birdcages recite speeches of some political leaders of the twentieth century. Gas flames, suitably modulated by electrical fields can be made to act as omnidirectional loudspeakers of surprising clarity and

Viewers take an umbrella, walk into the rainbow, and hear music played by water streams. (source: www.well.com/~demarini)

Film recordings of vibrating flames represent the articulations of speech, based on 19th century manometric flame devices. (source: www.well.com/~demarini)