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  • Earth day impromtu -
    EarthDay Impromptu (1990) was an event organized collaboratively. It included artists Eduardo Kac, Carlos Fadon and Irene Faiguenboim (Chicago) and Bruce Breland of the DAX Group of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, among other artists in
  • Steady State -
    Steady State was commissioned by TVE (Television of Spain) for a 14 part television series titled El Arte del Video (The Art of Video). This piece and other work by Allen were featured in the program, Computers in Video Art. (Rebecca Allen)
  • Behave -
    This work examines the ways we communicate through our behavior. Commissioned by Rebo High Definition Studios, New York, it is the first example of computer animation recorded to the HDTV (High Definition Television) format. Animation was
  • Laberint -
    Laberint is a single-channel video based on the Platonic myth that woman and man were once one androgynous form. Live-action and computer generated characters weave between real and virtual worlds. Commissioned by Catalunya Television (TVC), the
  • In front of the Memory Void in the Jewish Museum Berlin, there is a seven-armed candelabrum - the installation Menora by the artist Michael Bielicky. Instead of flames, seven monitors, on which fire signals flicker, crown the candelabrum. The signal
  • Flickering Signifiers is an ambient light installation concerned with the rhythmic nature of television light and how it is used to seduce and compel the viewer into a kind of hypnotic and passive inaction-while watching. Detection of movement has
  • Watchers
    "Watchers" are ambient light sculptures concerned with the rhythmic nature of television light and how it is used to seduce and compel the viewer into a kind of hypnotic and passive inaction. Detection of movement has been at the core of our
  • CAGEBIM is an installation where the visitor interacts. The visitor enters in the room and can read a John Cage's affirmation: " I am always interested in listening to. I am always less interested on the fixed relation between the parts. I am
  • Shock Absorber -
    In "Shock Absorber" a live feed is taken from broadcast television and separated it into two parts in real time. One part contains all the movements, edits and high frequency visual stimulation. The other part contains everything that is left over
  • 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