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  • We Need Us -
    What is the meaning of data beyond its value-laden content? We Need Us draws metadata from the activities of citizen science site Zooniverse’s million+ participants to create an ever-growing environment of sounds and animated forms. Unlike
  • Specious Dialogue is a playful exploration 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
  • The chair’s interactive interface creates a sonic environment that transforms our emotional state into sound. Drawing inspiration from John Cage's 4'33”, the concept of the chair explores themes of waiting, boredom, silence, and noise. As visitors
  • Conversation -
    Prompting a continuum between nature and culture, between species, and among the senses, Kac’s work questions the structures, mediations, and ultimately the supremacy of vision in art, while promoting synesthetic experiences that rearticulate
  • In Sound Mind -
    Human brains can subtract unwanted sense data – including sound – from the environment when we focus attention. The rest of the information is still being processed; it’s just attenuated, pushed to the background. In Sound Mind explores this
  • Environmental Media Studies explored new ways of representing landscape and place. Moving Movie #1 (1977) was an inexpensive modest study made at MIT. I was obsessed with why movie cameras move and movie projectors don’t, and filmed the Boston
  • Mood Swings -
    The Mood Swings installation creates states of emotion and perception by translating the viewer's body into a swarm of moving particles that change "moods" from one extreme to another. As the visitor's image is captured on a live video
  • … is a series of works comprised of what Kac calls "biotopes", that is, living pieces that change during the exhibition in response to internal metabolism and environmental conditions. Each of Kac's biotopes is literally a self-sustaining ecology
  • In 2009 we began a project with the British Antarctic Survey to explore how the data it derives from its research in the Southern Ocean could be redeployed in public forms. The project builds out from the conceptual themes achieved in our previous
  • Deepwater Horizon -
    This work is the result of the overlapping of the most viewed worldwide YouTube videos since 20th of April 2010, day of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, one of the biggest environmental disaster in recent years. I took these videos for