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  • Sound plays an important role in the work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (Canadian, b. 1957; 1960) whose video Hill Climbing (1999) tracks an unseen couple and their dog as they struggle to climb up a snowy hill. The layered, binaural
  • In the video (plasma screen) and sound installation Night Canoeing, one sees a mysterious image of water, light and steam. Snippets of a river's edge reveal that you are in a boat, part of a journey on a river at night. As both film and sound
  • The Shredder -
    Shred the Web! An Alternative web browser that turns web pages into digital confetti. At a time when the web browser struggled against print metaphors like magazine and newspapter to find it's own identity, The Shredder revealed the "soft" nature of
  • Digital Landfill -
    An neverending archive of digital trash. The artist has created an interface, in which the User can copy files from his computer or foreign websites - he can trash them. In a few seconds the files appear in different layers on the monitor. Now you
  • The Reading Room -
    Mixed media installation 10 x 6 x 4 metres Aluminium construction, glass components, limited edition artists' books. Jointly authored with Fiona Gunn, Christchurch, New Zealand. (source: http://www.littlepig.org.uk)
  • Ripple -
    "p-Soup" and the forerunner "Ripple" are more formal graphic approaches to the Internet and the computer, using the possibilities of the Internet as an interactive shared space for creating aesthetic experience. (source:
  • [spaces] -
    [spaces]Artist: Mark NapierComment:
  • This work needs time. Time to stand, sit or lie in front of your (computer) screen and look at the ongoing disintegration of the never ending Google image search. The result of this disintegration are abstract moving images, which run across the
  • House Fire
    Cardiff and Miller have been working collaboratively and individually for two decades. Together the pair achieved international renown with their collaborative works The Dark Pool (1995/96) and Muriel Lake Incident (1999). House Fire is a four and
  • Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller developed in "The Muriel Lake Incident" (1999) a miniature movie theater, in which a maximum of 3 person can have a look inside. The image and sound illussion is made perfect and has the effect that the viewer