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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.

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ART+COM: PIONEERING DIGITAL MEDIA IN WEST BERLIN (1987–1993) ORIGINS OF A VISIONARY LAB In the mid-1980s, the idea of everyone owning a personal computer still felt like science fiction. Yet in West Berlin, a visionary group began exploring the...

For the exhibition 'Kunst Over de Vloer' artists were invited to create works in the rooms of a private apartment building. Anamorphoses of Memory was located in a sparse and untidy student's bedroom. A monitor was placed on a mattress on the floor...

The installation was made specifically for the neo-Gothic Vleeshal in Middelburg and consisted of a computer graphics video projection onto a large screen at the far end of the room opposite the entrance. Infra-red sensors and seven pairs of blue...

In this work a chrome-plated column stands on a round black terrazzo base inlaid with brass signs representing a Hebraic astrological map. This column has a viewing aperture, two controlling handles, and a pair of loudspeakers. Looking through the...

Heavens Gate as a video installation was first shown in the neoclassical stairwell of Felix Meritis. In other exhibition spaces the work usually occupies a specially constructed completely dark room. The video image is projected over the whole...