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Artist designed bike racks commissioned by the city of Santa Monica were installed on Ocean Park Boulevard and Second Street. They are three bright green sculptures in the shape of cartoony trees.

The Image Mill is a public sculpture that uses the force and beauty of falling water as the energy to create a moving picture. As water falls over the giant wheel, a transmission assembly causes two disks to spin in opposite directions. On the

The 19th century Praxinoscope consisted of a circular beveled mirror reflecting a series of animation frames. When the device is spun, a moving image appears on the mirror. Using wind as the power and a structure that references the Eiffel Tower

The silhouettes of the ancient art of Shadow Play are achieved by light penetrating a translucent screen, and this sculpture uses the rotation of the windmill as the power to generate the backlight for the presentation. Additionally, the wind turns

The Dual is an optical illusion in which two disks rotate in opposite directions; the front disk is black with slits that act as a shutter, the rear disk contains the animation frames. When the disks spin, the animation is visible. In this artwork,

This 3-D computer animation originally was designed to an opera-piece. The main question of the opera was how we perceive time. The animation is about a small German village in a rainy day, and visualizes the miraculous moment when all of a sudden

Four Stories with a Twist is an algorithmically generated ‘music video’ with an original music score and script. The script is based on Albert Camus’ The Stranger and takes place in contemporary Paris. The music was written for a jazz ensemble and

In Sea-Changes (1997-98) artists age 50 or over, from a variety of disciplines, were invited to submit personal biographical materials to a common database. The original idea was to have them use that database as a basis from which create fictional

This proposed expanded cinema installation was an outdoor projection screen on which projected 35mm movies would materialize in smoke and steam. Mounted high on a steel frame, the approximately 6 m x 4 m screen was a shallow box construction with

Video of the launch of a helium ballon to the Stratosphere (20 kilometers high up). The balloon carried a payload with an experiment using 3 black and white video cameras with color filters in front in order to produce a final video in full color.