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Environmental Media Studies explored new ways of representing landscape and place. Moving Movie #1 (1977) was an inexpensive modest study made at MIT. I was obsessed with why movie cameras move and movie projectors don’t, and filmed the Boston

Moving Movie #1 (1977) was an inexpensive modest study made at MIT. I was obsessed with why movie cameras move and movie projectors don’t, and filmed the Boston landscape with a Super8 movie camera mounted on a slowly rotating turntable. The film is

The idea of a marriage between Sun and Moon appears repeatedly in the myth and old philosophy of various nations all over the world. It symbolizes the state where human becomes high level being by achieving the integration of consciousness and

In Weather Gauge, numerical weather data from over 150 countries is simultaneously represented in a gallery forming an array of hypnotic animated data referencing a huge global spread of live information. Each piece of weather data rotates between

Open Head is Marnix de Nijs’s first interactive installation. Engine-powered the machine rotates a monitor attached to an arm of steel, which can reach a top speed of 120 km/hour. A visible image only appears on the screen when it is transformed by

A yellow, two-meter-high siren slowly rotates around its own axis and produces a constant, penetrating, cyclical stream of sound that is modulated by the turning of the horn. Its powerful acoustic waves cause objects in the exhibition space to

Collector- a man with an electromechanical street-organ. He walks out to the streets of any city, to any place and just rotates the handle of his instrument. Yet, instead of the repetitious reproduction of the pre-inscribed melodies the street-organ

The source material for this interactive installation is the Pacifying the South China Sea handscroll, painted by an anonymous Qing painter almost two hundred years ago. The scroll chronicles the story of how the forces of the Jiaqing Emperor

Video sculpture A monitor is hung up with rubber bands and steel spirals, and thus installed as a punching ball in the exhibition space. A video shows the world globe seen from orbit. The globe rotates and passes through a process of resolution and

The Waterwalk was a 3-metre-high tetrahedron shaped balloon made from transparent (and sometimes coloured) plastic. A watertight zip allowed people to enter and be sealed inside. When this lightweight structure was inflated with air, one or more