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... narratives at a time when web search engines were introduced. Slippery Traces is a narrative work in which three sets of cultural messages could intersect or collapse into each other. First, the archive consists mostly of commercial postcards selected...

... installation that uses the two-sides of a wall positioned in the middle of the gallery room to contrast two states of cultural difference in the information age. Texts and ambient sounds are continuously projected on both sides of the wall. One side...

... reflection with its ambient sound superimposed on the still-life image. This reflection and sound gives the window display a cultural context as it positions the window still-life into an urban setting. This scene reveals itself to contain either Oriental...

... images at random moments. These texts come from personals (kontakte) and stocks news collected from American and European cultural regions such San Francisco, Los Angeles, Stuttgart, Berlin, and the internet. The function of these texts is to provide...

... personal contact with each other. The first installment takes the above topic by juxtaposing two names, collected from cultural communities the subway line services, next to each other on the screen, one chosen alphabetically, the other randomly. At...

... of 9 cylindrical LED alphanameric units with rotating texts that signpost a transition from the highway lighting into the cultural discourse embodied in Stadstheater display.

...Their Things Spoken is the third part of a trilogy which deals with different aspects of memory and visual archetypes in our culture, the first two being Memory Theater (1997) and Things Spoken (1999). Their Things Spoken refers to the gulf between the conservation...

..."Last Entry: Bombay, 1st of July" is a collaborative documentary about a person, identity and gender unknown - a flaneur in the cultural space of the internet. Inspired by the novel "Orlando", written by Virginia Woolf in 1928, that reads like a visionary metaphor,...

... screen. FROZE micro-shows will not simply freeze the ongoing flows on our screens but will inquire what other kinds of cultural software - or> even a totally new cultural OS - our world needs today. Lev Manovich, July 2001, Los Angeles.