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  • Liquid Selves -
    ... our existence as individuals becomes less and less dependent on our physical being. Our virtual identities become more powerful and flexible, but also unstable and difficult to define. Our consistent recognizable faces are left behind and all faces...
  • ...The powerful social aspect of Sermon’s work is visualized in the site-specific installation A Body of Water (1999), created for the exhibition Connected Cities, which has an atmosphere that borders on the eerie. In a chroma-key room set up in Duisburg’s Wilhelm...
  • ... of local passers-by, whose silhouettes measure between 2 to 25 metres high, depending on how far people were from the powerful light sources placed on the floor of the square. A custom-made computer vision tracking system triggers new portraits as old...
  • Open Head
    ...Open Head is Marnix de Nijs’s first interactive installation. Engine-powered the machine rotates a monitor attached to an arm of steel, which can reach a top speed of 120 km/hour. A visible image only appears on the screen when it is transformed by both the...
  • Walk Münster -
    ... taken from exactly the same viewpoint. In order to heighten the impression of being observed, the telescope, which is powered by a motor, follows the movement of the people on the Domplatz (in the video). When the visitor first looks through the...
  • Sakrileg -
    ... that balances a little red ball on a cambered surface. By horizontally turning this tread clockwise or anticlockwise by a powerful motor, the control unit tries to keep the ball up and prevent it from falling down. Two light barriers are detecting if the...
  • ... alterity and dissociation; chthonian and expanded definitions of space; the archaic. Current applied projects include solar-powered high-performance housing envelopes in exterior sites and architectural-scale geotextiles in museum spaces. Philip Beesley...
  • ...Sommerer, Christa and Gerald Bast and Wolfgang Fiel. Solar Display: A Self-powered Media Facade In New Realities: Being Syncretic, Consciousness Reframed: The Planetary Collegium’s IXth International Research Conference, edited by Roy AscottLeonardo, , 271-275....
  • ... of conversation. The work comprises two cubic sculptures mounted on casters, one black and one white, house battery-powered tiny cameras, as well as wireless recording and playback systems. These can be pushed, rolled, kicked and shoved around the...
  • Last Supper -
    ...This virtual aplication is a powerful tool to understand the relationship between the real architecture of the refettorio and the painted architecture by Leonardo. Approaching the Ultima Cena you can visit the painting in its particulars and discover t he beau ty and...