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... installation which addresses my current interests - in the relationships which are emerging between feminism, technology and art. Two major influences when I was growing up were time which I spent in the southern USA visiting family who had lived in...

Echoing Narcissus is an interactive sound-sculpture in the form of a well, covered in copper sheet and printed circuit boards. It is a re-telling of Ovid's myth of Narcissus and Echo. All sounds made in the proximity of the sculpture are

Measure is a variation of the Very Nervous System, using an extremely simple and regular sound source, a ticking clock. (source: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/measure.html)

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

WRINGER/WASHER TV is a pink, white and chrome wringer washer which has a colour monitor fitted in the bottom of the wash tub facing up. This installation deals with the issue of abortion in Canada, interspersing opinions and arguments with video

... of the visitor = fear for the agents) and obstacles inserted by the visitors who interact with the body and gestures disarticulating or promoting connective configurations. (source: www.plancton.com)

... the mirror. The image is focussed when the visitor stand up to observe the mirror and disappear when the visitor moves. The artwork pushes the perception of the own image as the other himself through slowly minimal graphical and sound effects and subliminal...

...Construction of an artificial perception systems, electronic systems that are able to see. Usually, the actual images are seen only by the system, which replies to what it sees with interpretive sounds or music. (source: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/watch.html)

Guardian Angel is a fictitious corporation that offers a broad range of highly personalized services in exchange for extreme personal surveillance. The installation is made up of three elements: a video projection of a live, fairly invasive video

The surface inspiration for "n-Cha(n)t" was a strong and somewhat inexplicable desire to hear a community of computers speaking together: chattering amongst themselves, musing, intoning chants... "n-cha(n)t" is a community of "Givers of Names"