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  • Cheap Imitation -
    "Cheap Imitation" is an homage to Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp was of course an inveterate re-user of existing works of art. In "Cheap Imitation", Rokeby has cut up Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" into the several hundred facets that make up
  • Sorting Daemon -
    Like many of Rokeby's other works, "Sorting Daemon" surveys its environment and uses the resulting images as the primary content of the work. In this specific case, the system looks out onto the street, panning, tilting and zooming, looking for
  • Three City Link -
    In 1989, the Three-City Link event brought together artists in Chicago (organized by Eduardo Kac and Carlos Fadon), Boston (led by Dana Moser), and Pittsburgh (the DAX [Digital Art Exchange] Group). A slow-scan television system connected to a
  • Telecommunications event between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo uniting fax and live TV, 1988. Connecting the public medium of television with the private medium of the fax this work created a system of feedback based on the continuous exchange and
  • Unreflective Mirror -
    Surveillance camera, surveillance video monitor, custom-made polarized filter glasses, PC, data projector x 2 This virtual mirror effectively erases the presence of the spectator, manipulating and questioning notions of identity and
  • Elektroplankton -
    Electroplankton is an interactive music video game developed by the Japanese interactive media artist Toshio Iwai and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS portable gaming system. This unique software allows one to interact with animated
  • Morphovision -
    Morphovision is a new visual system, where a high-speed rotating solid object appears to soften or even disintegrate, when illuminated with special light. Here, a miniature house rotating at high-speed can be transformed by selecting one of several
  • Time Stratum III -
    Toshio Iwai about Time Stratum III: "In this work, in order to achieve a greater scale of 3-dimensional effect, I used 3 acrylic domes to place hundreds of moving shapes. I used 4 computers, one for the real-time performance of music and sending the
  • Internet, search engine, cartography Maps from the World Nervous System With today's communication networks, the world is equipped with an extensive virtual nervous system. From anywhere in the world one can feel what's happening anywhere
  • Photos, Installation Visitors of World Skin, a Photo Safari in the Land of War at FACT Liverpool exhibition sk-interface