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The mediaBlocks project is a tangible user interface based upon small, electronically tagged wooden blocks. The blocks serve as physical icons ("phicons") for the containment, transport, and manipulation of online media. mediaBlocks interface with

"Cheap Imitation" is an homage to Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp was of course an inveterate re-user of existing works of art. In "Cheap Imitation", Rokeby has cut up Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" into the several hundred facets that make up

As one of the installation's aesthetic goals is the bodily impression of the generated object on the user, a sound synthesis technique was in demand, that is able to both render a visible object's genuine sound thru all its user-inferred alterations

excerpt from an Interview with the Thing (http://epidemic.ws/downJones_press/THE_THING_Interview.htm): Q: Your latest project, downJones [sendMail], is a demo of a virus for webmail sofware that slips short phrases into the body of any e-mail. In

Timeline (2004) started out as a poem about getting old, for which I collected a small database of images found on the web which resonated with the lines from the poem. Interactively, the work is based on the device used in packages like Adobe

Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument, designed and created by Japanese artist, Toshio Iwai, in collaboration with Yamaha. It consists of a screen, held in the hands, of a sixteen by sixteen grid of LED switches, any of which can be

SimTunes is one of those wonderful programs that grows with the user. In essence, it is a paint program that doubles as a musical composition program--or vice versa. The user begins with a blank screen, or canvas and a variety of tools, paints, and

This piece was created as an interactive 'virtual gallery' in which the user can explore a computer rendition of the gallery in which the computer is housed. It is also possible to depart this space and enter into a number of fantasy spaces,

Advent is an interactive journey into the 25 days preceding the birth of something messianic. The journey is set in and around the shoreline of a mythic river and takes the form of a fictional personal diary. At the heart of the piece is an advent

Heliotrope is an artwork made using computer manipulated images and animations in which the user interacts to control the sequence of events. Like many interactive artworks the piece requires input from the user. However, unlike a computer game, the