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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

The work is made up of a small natural environment. Four small speakers are hidden under the leaves of the vegetation which covers most of the surface of this world. This world is in fact an island surrounded completely by water. The world is

The central element in "Silicon Remembers Carbon" is a large video image projected down onto a bed of sand on the floor of the installation space. In the second version, instead of laser-discs, the video source is made up from 2 streams of MPEG-2

After four turbulent years serving the President, Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art & Technology took back the Department and made it his own. With the spectre of Orf as his guide (who bears witness to deteriorating

This work was made in response to a call by Metamute (London) for Jam Echelon Day 2001. It simply employs all the words stored in the Echelon system in a program that automatically generates texts using whatever dictionary it has available.

Lenticular Bicycle is the first sculpture in the series to use human energy. The pedal-powered movie references the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the hacked bicycles that are roughly converted for use in family businesses throughout Southeast

Body Language represents the second generation of interactive sound installations Rokeby created. The installation used three hand-built low-resolution (8x8 pixels) video cameras (see image above) to observe a 5 metre by 5 metre space. The images

William Kentridge describes Johannesburg, South Africa, providing a social and historical context for his animated films, including "Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris" (1989). Excerpted from William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, a film

Janet Cardiff's “Feedback” (2004) is an interactive sound piece that plays a Jimi Hendrix rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” when the visitor steps on a wah-wah pedal. “Feedback” is a gift in honor of Rifkin by Tom and Kitty Stoner and

“Hello, world!” analyses the ephemerality or longevity of storage media and uses acustic signals for data storage. In a closed system, which is made up of a computer, a loudspeaker, 246 metres of copper pipe and a microphon, circulates a codified,