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  • "Unreal City" is a collection of images I have found on the walls in the Soho and Bowery areas of New York City. Every day these walls change as new layers of advertising are pasted over old, creating a soup of words, faces and textures. Add
  • In the video (plasma screen) and sound installation Night Canoeing, one sees a mysterious image of water, light and steam. Snippets of a river's edge reveal that you are in a boat, part of a journey on a river at night. As both film and sound
  • House Fire
    Cardiff and Miller have been working collaboratively and individually for two decades. Together the pair achieved international renown with their collaborative works The Dark Pool (1995/96) and Muriel Lake Incident (1999). House Fire is a four and
  • Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller developed in "The Muriel Lake Incident" (1999) a miniature movie theater, in which a maximum of 3 person can have a look inside. The image and sound illussion is made perfect and has the effect that the viewer
  • To Touch
    It seems that a simple wooden table is the only object in a smoothly lighted room. To touch - to finger, to contact, to handle. The common museum traditions, meaning that the viewer is a viewer from distance, are turned around. The art pieces starts
  • A collection of images and thoughts about skin
  • Mori
    Sound-Installation "Mori" is an Internet-based earthwork that engages the earth as a living medium. In this installation, minute movements of the Hayward Fault in California are detected by a seismograph, converted to digital signals, and
  • Symbolizing a nation in decay and ruin, where media is all that is left of the corporeal remains of America. Where Empire runs its course. (source: http://www.zakros.com/projects/season/index.html)
  • ... and laughing people. A woman -- your date, it seems -- arrives after...
  • Playhouse
    Janet Cardiff’s Playhouse [1997], a collaborative installation with George Bures Miller was first exhibited at the Barbara Weiss Gallery in Berlin. Playhouse combines sculpture, sound, video and performance in a fusion that experiments with