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  • Looking for God -
    ... this notion. The basic setup consists of an old General Electric radio, a microphone, an electronic odometer, an electronic bell, a microprocessor and a mechanism that is able to tune the radio. The mechanism turns the dial of the radio slightly either to...
  • ...The November 1973 issue of Scientific American featured an article titled “The Recognition of Faces” by Bell Labs researcher Leon Harmon that explained how we perceive pixelated digital photographic images. Using a low-resolution, portrait of Lincoln to describe the...
  • The Library -
    ... the most ambitious VRML projects on the internet today. With the assistance of modellers, animators and programmers at the Bell Centre for Creative Communications (Centennial College, Toronto), and funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts,...
  • ... of 8 linked short stories placed in a variety of settings, with characters appearing in the windows in response to a bell ring. The project’s setting is in a contemporary city, with its habitants: new wealth, middle-class, professionals, servants,...
  • ... it." After a time these directions become less context specific and more direct, e.g. "Go to 12 Waterloo Place and ring the bell marked Roy". Online Players can assist Street Players by matching photos and Uncle Roy's comments and then passing...
  • Wind and Rain -
    ... a live elephant was brought into the room and the not realized intention (because the elephant had a cold) was to paint his belly white and project a Tarzan movie onto it.
  • SensingSpeakingSpace -
    ... forth" and "revealing" in the green text screen mode. The sound consists of several layers (drone, singer, water sounds, bells, speakers, etc.) with variations for each of the two visual states. The vision program send messages over a network to a...
  • ... are suspended 6m from the ground facing each other. An electronic device (a hexapod robot) is attached to the woman's belly pointing towards the abdomen of the male body with its sharp endings. The robot is activated by the woman's scream. The...
  • ... Cuba, 2012. "Last Breath" is a robotic installation that stores and circulates the breath of a person forever, between a bellows and a brown paper bag. The apparatus is automatically activated 10,000 times per day, the typical respiratory frequency for...
  • ... again saw the virtual computer generated swing in motion, but this time it augmented the immediate zone of the artist’s belly. © Jeffrey Shaw