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  • TouchCounters -
    TouchCounters are computational tags that track the usage of physical objects. TouchCounters sense activity through magnetic, acceleration, and infrared sensors, and indicate their status on bright LED displays. Through magnetic snap connectors,...
  • curlybot -
    curlybot is an toy that can record and playback physical motion. As one plays with it, it remembers how it has been moved and can replay that movement with all the intricacies of the original gesture; every pause, acceleration, and even the shaking...
  • handSCAPE -
    HandSCAPE is a vectorizing digital tape measure as an input device for digitizing field measurements, and visualizing the volume of the resulting vectors with computer graphics. Using embedded orientation-sensing hardware, HandSCAPE captures relevant...
  • Composition on the Table (1998/99) is comprised of four white tables bearing physical interface components: switches, dials, and turntables. Computer graphics images are projected onto the tables from ceiling-mounted video projectors, and...
  • 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...
  • Short video showing the installation of "Border Patrol" by Paul Garrin and David Rokeby. They got a golden Nica for it already in 1997 but it could be exhibited only a year later.
  • Kidnap -
    In this sensational precursor to Big Brother, two volunteers were selected from a few hundred applicants and subsequently kidnapped for a period of 48 hours.

    Selected finalists were chosen at random and put under surveillance. Following this...
  • Second Promenade -
    Boissiers Installation "Second Promenade" is based on different meshed media: images, sounds, music, videos and a computerbased text. This hypertext is in a close relationship to the original of Rousseaus Second Promenade and can be read variably by...
  • janus -
    A site specific installation, a 12-foot construction made of three light sources suspended above reflective surfaces in turn suspended above a 24+-foot drop, Installed in a warehouse next to the Thames in News Cross Gate, Londoon. (source:...