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  • Biggs, Simon. Second Life: how may it augment our first (learning) life? A review of the current and potential use of Second Life in creative arts education. (2009).
  • Event: Second Kyoto Meeting on Digital CitiesInstitution: Kyoto Research ParkComment:
  • Solve et Coagula is primarily an attempt to give birth to a new life form: half digital, half organic. Through a multisensorial, full duplex sensory interface the installation networks the human with an emotional, sensing and artificially intelligent...
  • Artist: Sebastian Korenič TratnikComment:
  • Video: The remix of President George W. Bush's 2005 State of the Union speech is set to Richard Wagner's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, a tale of two lovers who suffer a fateful embrace with love and death. In Bush's speech, a mother whose son...
  • Video: In this excerpt, Orf engages the speed and power of the aircraft, a weapon of mass destruction in the 21st century, singing: swing low, sweet chariot coming for to carry me home, evoking the extremist allure of the afterlife. (source:...
  • Symbolizing a nation in decay and ruin, where media is all that is left of the corporeal remains of America. Where Empire runs its course. (source: http://www.zakros.com/projects/season/index.html)
  • The nation's Capital has been transformed into a mighty walled fortress, armed to the teeth, locked-down, swept-clean - all joy has been strangled - on any suspicion, they would pounce with the stealth of a wild beast. (source:...
  • Season in Hell -
    After four turbulent years serving the President, Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art & Technology took back the Department and made it his own. With the spectre of Orf as his guide (who bears witness to deteriorating...