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The I/O Bulb and the Luminous Room are the two central ideas in a project whose goal is the pervasive transformation of architectural space, so that every surface is rendered capable of displaying and collecting visual information. An I/O Bulb

The central element in "Silicon Remembers Carbon" is a large video image projected down onto a bed of sand on the floor of the installation space. In the second version, instead of laser-discs, the video source is made up from 2 streams of MPEG-2

"Taken" is a surveillance installation that provides two readings of the activities in the gallery space. A large gallery space has one wall taken up by two very large projections. On the left hand side, gallery visitors are extracted from the

"Sacred Code" is a rumination on three holy texts:The Old Testament, The New Testament and the Koran, as seen through a digital lens. In this new artwork, Napier has created algorithms that read these three books bit by bit, literally reading

The Castle is a large scale interactive video projection designed for specific architectural sites. The title makes reference to Kafka's novel of the same name, the work taking as its subject the incomprehensible character of systems of

An interactive digital video projection environment 1 interactive video projection, colour, silent 12 x 12 x 18 metres This video projection was done onto the ceiling of the Dominakanerkirch (Dominican Cathedral) in Osnabruck, 18 metres above

After four turbulent years serving the President, Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art & Technology took back the Department and made it his own. With the spectre of Orf as his guide (who bears witness to deteriorating

An interactive digital video projection installation 1 interactive video projection, black and white, silent 8 x 12 x 6 metres The piece is based on the texts of the late Roman philosopher Boethius, and deals with the fluid and ultimately

An interactive digital video projection installation 1 large scale projection, colour, silent 10 x 12 x 6 metres The position of the viewer in front of the image controls the activity of the various objects on the screen. At the bottom of the

This work was made in response to a call by Metamute (London) for Jam Echelon Day 2001. It simply employs all the words stored in the Echelon system in a program that automatically generates texts using whatever dictionary it has available.