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Urban Hero, Part 1 Routines and conveniences of our daily life have become gradually fatal for the environment, thus representing a growing problem for functioning ecosystems of flora and fauna, but also directly for our health. The ubiquity of

Sleep is by no means the tranquil affair we think it is, constant movement between the sheets and a perpetual regulation of body temperature and breathing rate: it’s a wonder we can get any rest from it. http://stwst48x4.stwst.at/social_sleep_videos

D.I.N., the German Institute for Standardisation, is the extremely influential national standards body that represents German interests in European and international standards organisations since 1917. Their press spokesman, Mr. Anthony, describes

Minitel used a half-duplex asymmetric data transmission through a modem.

vintage fax on white paper, 21 × 29.7 cm (8.27 × 11.69 inches), 1987. Transmission information is visible on the left side. Transmitted from Rio de Janeiro to Mario Ramiro in São Paulo.

Transmitted to Museo Internacional de Electrografia, Cuenca, Spain, 1993, and exhibited in Muestra Internacional de Fax Art, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Cuenca, Spain, 1993.

Note from Eduardo Kac: "Please note that it is impossible to convey the readerly interactivity and the spatiotemporal qualities of these pieces on a web page. The documentary images below serve as an introduction to this work. Six different points

As the cylindrical form of the three letters spins in space, the letter I appears and disappears, producing the fleeting appearance of the words "o cio" (in heat) and "ócio" (idleness).

Runtime looped animation in which language continuously emerges and disappears. As a speech fragment is repeated and letters disappear from it, new meanings emerge.

In this looped and silent installation-poem 7-foot tall letters are projected against the wall. They emerge out of focus on the right, move across diagonally into focus, and disappear again out of focus to the left. Literal and at the same time