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  • UNPREPARED PIANO -
    In Unprepared Piano, a Yamaha disklavier grand piano is connected to a database of music MIDI files appropriated and compiled from all over the web. This library of electronic scores is then “performed” automatically according to a simple set of
  • Light from Tomorrow -
    Light from Tomorrow is an artwork by British artists Thomson & Craighead. It centres on an expedition to The Kingdom of Tonga, where tomorrow’s outdoor light-readings are broadcast in close to real time through The International Dateline to
  • Weather Gauge -
    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
  • The Messenger is an Internet driven installation based on early proposals for the electrical telegraph, in particular those made by the Catalan scientist Francesc Salvá. It examines the metaphors encoded within technology, especially lost or
  • Eyepiece -
    Eyepiece is a 16mm film installation, where an image of a human eye is projected onto a custom-made rear-screen dome, thus become 3D. Eyepiece was originally produced using raw footage of human eyeballs in 1979. In 1983, it was re-filmed for the
  • Telephony -
    Telephony allows gallery visitors to dial into a wall based grid of 42 Siemens mobile telephones, which in turn begin to call each other and create a piece of 'music.' Each phone has been individually programmed with a different ringtone, which
  • Thalamus -
    'Thalamus' is a simple user led environment designed for DATA projection into a gallery space where the user navigates the work with a mouse or slider set on a plinth placed squarely infront of the projection. The piece uses a metronome scale as a
  • Elastic Fax 2 -
    Artists around the world were invited through the Internet to transmit sequential images, to form by chance the sequences of a self-organizing fax movie. The fax machine was placed above eye level, to create the feeling of a large projector as the
  • EAT -
    EAT is an art installation about consumption. It was produced as a class project for Michael Naimark's "Virtual Environments" class in 1989 at the San Francisco Art Institute where it received an SFAI Spring Show Gold Award. EAT is a short
  • The encounter between two images randomly downloaded from Flickr is a logical articulation of and,or,implies,if...then,if and only if,only if,just in case,but,however,not both,neither...nor ----- Gregory Chatonsky is an artist born in Paris.