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  • FIRMAMENT - video
    In the center of the landscape, a lake (eye of the earth) is the mirror to a virtual cosmos, where life is designed by the stars' behaviors which simulate a living organism. An artificial world crowded with dots of lights and sounds, generate trough
  • A [hidden] transmission device, using Bluetooth protocols, continually searches for visible and open devices (mobile phones, laptops, PDAs etc) within an area. On discovering an open device, a simple message is sent, reading: “I am still alive”*. I
  • Sonar 2010
    Sónar is the festival of advanced music and multimedia art that takes place at various venues in Barcelona (Spain) in the third week of June since 1994. Sónar is a pioneering festival that is unique in terms of its format and content: a leading
  • n an information-based age, the ability to search and organize information amounts to power. Search engines shape knowledge, modulate web traffic, and contribute to the creation of new semantics and meanings. Currently, Google's influence is
  • In a time characterised by the loss of utopia and by major social and political change, creativity was called for – this was where artistic and philosophical concepts became increasingly important for creating new perspectives. Not the answer, but
  • The interactive 3D virtual reality installation "The Travels of Mariko Horo" is a reverse Marco Polo fantasy imagining the fictitious Mariko Horo as a Japanese time-traveler searching for the Western Paradise of Buddhist mythology, the Isles of the
  • Body Language -
    Body Language represents the second generation of interactive sound installations Rokeby created. The installation used three hand-built low-resolution (8x8 pixels) video cameras (see image above) to observe a 5 metre by 5 metre space. The images
  • Tollen
    In an arena of about 6m by 10m the artist puts a number of spinning tops in motion. He attempts to drive them as a kind of flock or lets them interact as a kind of self-sustaining system. They move in unpredictable ways, sometimes careful and
  • Weintraub, Linda. Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art´s Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970-1990s. New York: Art Insights Inc., 1996.
  • Fleischmann, Monika and Wolfgang Strauss. Searching instead of Finding: The Digital Archive as Find Engine. In Futuros Possíveis: Arte, Museus e Arquivos Digitais, edited by Giselle BeiguelmanSão Paulo: Periópolis/ Edusp, 2014.