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  • Beyond Hierarchy -
    Upon entering the former Verwaltungshalle in the administration center of the Zeche Zollern II, a historical sweep through the lives of six workers from the Ruhr region can be experienced. Embedded inside the architectural frieze of the high atrium
  • The Body Remembers -
    Spanning 22 years and three continents, the performance, video and digital media work made by Jill Scott coalesces at points that are both corporeal and mechanistic. The differing themes and effects of each work are supported by a range of interests
  • Digital Body-Automata -
    Housed in a white, clinical environment, Digital Body- Automata is divided into three parts. These installations are called: A Figurative History (past mechanical transformation); Interskin (present digital transformation) and Immortal Duality
  • "Poverty Island with video Skies" is the beginning of an exploration of the integration of video images into a virtual environment. This integration will allow me to combine a long-standing interest in the evocative similarities of the forms and
  • The Telegarden -
    The TeleGarden is an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm.
  • Survey of Prints -
    In 2003 the Museum purchased Atlas Procession I, a print by William Kentridge, the first work by this internationally renowned South African artist in the SCMA collection. This fall, Kentridge is the subject of a major exhibition at SCMA, William
  • For more than 10 years, Matt Mullican has been continuously developing a sign system which is, on the one hand, a product of his imagination, and on the other, taken directly from everyday life. Signs as they can be found in airports, train
  • Petit Mal -
    Although much work has been done in the field of screen-based interactive art, the mode of interaction in these works is confined by the very existence of image material on a screen, the so called "graphical user interface". I am particularly
  • Landscape One -
    Four walls of a space are "painted", with video projectors, into a single photo realistic 360º landscape representing a public garden. The space, set in Montreal's Mont-Royal Parc, is being visited by real and virtual characters. If the
  • The landscape is not just the natural environment or its representation. It is in itself a cultural construct, subject to the codes and beliefs of those who have configured it, be it physically (determining its shape by the arrangement of gardens,