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Personal Ambient Displays are small, physical devices worn to display information to a person in a subtle, persistent, and private manner. They can be small enough to be carried in a pocket, worn as a watch, or even adorned like jewelry. In our

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

THE MEADOW explores and manifests the metaphorical space which lies between the 'simulated' and the 'real' - a space to which artists are inevitably drawn. Ambiguity and irony also share this space, and it is here that new

To explore the use of motion of physical objects to convey information and emotion, we have designed a series of Expressive Kinetic Objects. The Dyna-Lux is a kind of Expressive Kinetic Objects. The Dyna-Lux is a table lamp augmented with a

Placed in the middle of the Center for Contemporary Art, the yellow canary was given a very large and comfortable cylindrical white cage, on top of which circuit-boards, a speaker, and a microphone were located. A clear Plexiglas disc separated the

PLACEHOLDER was a virtual environment project designed by Brenda Laurel and Rachel Strickland and produced by Brenda Laurel. Placeholder was a two-person fully interactive virtual-reality system, utilizing stereoscopic head-mounted displays,

"60" is a version of "Very Nervous System" designed especially for the "I am Listening" show of sound sculptures at the Glendon Gallery at York University, Toronto, Canada. "60" uses the softVNS.htmlI motion processor, and a additive synthesis

Blow-up is a high resolution interactive display that is designed to fragment a surveillance camera view into 2400 virtual cameras that zoom into the exhibition space in fluid and autonomous motion. Inspired by Antonioni, the piece is intended as a

The YOUbiläums Browser (kots.nu/mzedck). The history of the ZKM between 1997 and 2007 becomes a space pervading interface: by means of the Linear Navigator designed by Jeffrey Shaw in 1999, the visitors are able to call up video documentation on

Intuitive movements in front of a mirror are banal. Replacing the mirror by a screen showing a similar mirrored image, but filmed and augmented with "transfiction/alized” elements, results in visual interaction, in body movements, which can trigger