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As the Y2K media frenzy and millennium celebrations reached a fever pitch in late 1999, the finishing touches were being put on the design of one of the most ambitious VRML projects on the internet today. With the assistance of modellers, animators

Satellite Contact is a two-screen video portrait of the British National Archives (formerly known as the Public Records Office). Satellite Contact never touches the ground: it takes the viewer on an hour-long roller-coaster ride through the guts of

Heaven’s Gate is a video installation that was first shown in the stairwell of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. In other venues the work usually occupies a specially constructed tall, dark room. The video image is projected high up onto a 3m x 4m screen

I have created a a language to delete, to compact mental texts and graphics, to eliminate unwanted thoughts and make them personal hieroglyphics. 210 graphemes that don´t carry meaning by themselves. One grapheme is not an "A" or a "B" but anything

Flat Earth is a desktop documentary, which takes the viewer on a seven minute trip around the world so that we encounter a series of fragments taken from real peoples' blogs. These fragments are knitted together to form a kind of story or singular

Inter-Sections explored issues of privacy, mobility and technological voyeurism in a game-like context. The project involved outfitting a New York City taxi cab with a custom-designed Global Positioning Satellite receiver and a digital camera, both

Marcello Mercado transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus, 2010 Hybrid-DNA-Performance-Bio-installation, 16'23", stereo 4:3 color http://vimeo.com/37691031 Information culled from digital archives, the human genome, satellite

Terrapattern is a tool for exploring the unmapped and the unmappable: a system for finding ?"more like this, please" in satellite photos. It can also be described as "a visual search engine for satellite imagery", "similar-image search for satellite