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  • Reflexions - video
    His first interactive sound installation. Construction of some very bulky 8 x 8 pixel video cameras, connected then to a wire-wrapped card in the Apple ][ which digitized the images, and wrote a program for the Apple ][ which controlled a Korg MS-20...
  • Body Language -
    Body Language represents the second generation of interactive sound installations Rokeby created. The installation used three hand-built low-resolution (8x8 pixels) video cameras (see image above) to observe a 5 metre by 5 metre space. The images...
  • Very Nervous System -
    Very Nervous System is the third generation of interactive sound installations which Rokeby has created. In these systems, video cameras, image processors, computers, synthesizers and a sound system are used to create a space in which the movements...
  • Echoing Narcissus -
    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 lowered in...
  • Liquid Language -
    It is an experiement in fluid text. Text appears on the screen, dissolves and transforms continuously, resulting in a representation of a wandering stream of consciousness. The structure of the work revolves around the three themes : forgetting,...
  • Time Stratum III -
    Toshio Iwai about Time Stratum III: "In this work, in order to achieve a greater scale of 3-dimensional effect, I used 3 acrylic domes to place hundreds of moving shapes. I used 4 computers, one for the real-time performance of music and sending the...
  • Time Stratum II -
    Toshio Iwai about Time Stratum II: "In this installation, I placed 120 paper human figures on a motorised spinning disk. Iset up a video monitor above them, while strobing the light down, the paper figures all burst into motion.

    By using a video...
  • Otocky -
    Designed by popular Japanese multimedia artist Toshio Iwai, "Otokki" or Otocky (which is the appropriate spelling that appears on the game's main title screen) was released for the Famicom Disk System in 1987. Otocky may be best described as a...
  • Sky -
    Sky is a collection of conceptual pieces to transform nuclear weapons into works of art. (Iris-Project) (source: http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/papers/CAE_catalogue_MTL.pdf#search=%22george%20gessert%20iris%22)
  • Microvenus -
    Joe Davis concepted "Microvenus" explicitly as an artwork and living art. His aim is the investigation of possibilities of communication with aliens and the search of longliving informaiton carriers. The main aim of the project is the investigation...