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  • ... a digitally processed version of the performance. The image processing was characterized by its very slow frame-rate and the reduction to just two colors - black and white. The projection was accompanied by a very loud soundtrack of music normally performed...
  • ... Senses into a portion of Bosch's painting The Garden of Delights. The interactive sequence showed a progressive digital reduction of the Oshima image into a more and more abstract configuration, and out of this raster of picture elements the Bosch image...
  • ... up to the present-day. The major components were firstly a sculpture garden of replicas of revolutionary monuments, all reduced to one size, that when touched would play their respective revolutionary songs. Then secondly a group of coin-operated...
  • Traces -
    ... HMD (Head Mounted Display) VR dissects the body, privileging visuality to the exclusion of bodily senses. The body is reduced to a single Cartesian point, the body is checked at the door. http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny/works/traces/Tracescode.html
  • ... to do with the status of the image in our process of getting a grasp on this world. The rawest and most brutal realities are reduced to an emotional superficiality in our perception. Acquisition, evaluation and understanding of the world constitute a process...
  • ... in 1984, it was done. Twenty-one years later, in 2005, my long-time friend and colleague Brenda Laurel cajoled me into a redux. The young couple in the original living room are now middle age with a teenage daughter. Mom is still pensive, Dad still...
  • Paradise Tossed -
    ... Margaret Mead once said.. 'Utopia is built on the great diversity of human propensity and gift and it must be ... redundant enough to catch the developed imagination of each different member of society'. Ars Electronica Archive
  • ... was sir lent and unimposing. A touchscreen tree was approached as a kiosk with a large monitor. The city of Irvine was reduced to seven computer icons representing paradise, housing, nature, freeways, mall, hero and business. (Victoria Vesna)
  • Fugitive -
    ... is necessarily "embodied". In general, tracker systems for immersive virtual environments and spatial applications reduce the physical presence of the user to one (or a small number) of points. Rather than submit a human user to such erasure, or to...
  • Sympathetic Sentience -
    ... this chain of communication by moving through the space. This results in a suppression of communication activity and hence reduction of complexity. A long interruption results in complete silencing of the whole group. When the interloping is removed,...