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AshramArtist: Ricardo Dal FarraComment:

Two week fax and E-mail event and telematic workstation between Fine Art students from Newport School of Fine Art in the UK and international artist, scientists and academics.

Earth Signals - A telematic "leaf shaped" installation structure housing six Commodore Amiga computers displaying image files, received via E-mail from Artists throughout the UK, for the Omphalos Gallery in Swiss Cottage London, England, June to...

A Commodore Amiga hyper-media computer programme, based on the theme of a media reported event from the 1990 Remembrance Ceremony in Whitehall, London. A young man ran out from the crowd and set fire to himself and shouted the words "think about the...

In this interactive laser-disc-based work the viewer has to push a protruding steel bar to rotate a column-mounted monitor which in turn animates the images on its screen. A friction plate forces the viewers to exert themselves physically. Turning...

A large steel ball hangs from four cables and motorized pulleys within the atrium of this building. Connected to the center's computer network, anyone working there can interactively program its movement paths.

EarthDay Impromptu (1990) was an event organized collaboratively. It included artists Eduardo Kac, Carlos Fadon and Irene Faiguenboim (Chicago) and Bruce Breland of the DAX Group of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, among other artists in...

Panspermia is the name for the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores. This piece places the viewer in the
middle of a virtual world of an aggressively reproducing inter-galactic life form,...

Pride of our young nation is a meditation on machines of war and the psychology which motivates their construction. Its material construction echoes the archetype of a piece of field artillery, unchanged since the napoleonic era, while its control...