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  • Combining the political with the poetic, William Kentridge's work has made an indelible mark on the contemporary art scene. Dealing with subjects as sobering as apartheid and colonialism, Kentridge often imbues his art with dreamy, lyrical
  • bottlogues -
    Glass bottles have been a part of human culture for thousands of years, serving both practical and aesthetic functions. The "bottles" project explores the transparency of an interface that weaves itself into the fabric of everyday life. Seamless
  • transBOARD -
    The transBOARD is a Tangible Bits platform which explores the use of a digitally-enhanced whiteboard as a model of a wall in the future. The transBOARD supports distributed access to physical whiteboard activity. Distributed users can monitor
  • Mitchell, William J.. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
  • Fisher, Scott S.. From Envisioning to Embodying the Virtual In Tangibles Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms, edited by Hiroshi Ishii and Tangible Media GroupTokyo, Japan: NTT Publishing Co., 2000.
  • mediaFlow -
    mediaFlow is the first project to interlink the multiple Tangible Bits platforms. mediaFlow uses Triangles to route the flow information such as activity on the transBOARD, metaDESK, or online sources to destinations like Ambient Fixtures, the
  • Ambient Fixtures -
    This project explores the use of physical fixtures and objects to display temporal information within an architectural space in a subtle and aesthetically pleasing way. Ambient Fixtures present and communicate information through their changes in
  • Hiroshi Ishii is the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, at the MIT Media Lab. He joined the MIT Media Lab in October 1995, and founded the Tangible Media Group. He currently directs the Tangible Media Group, and he co-directs
  • Bits and Pieces -
    Event: Bits and PiecesInstitution: Joseloff Gallery at Hartford Art SchoolComment:
  • Event: Bits in Motion: Early British Computer-Generated Art FilmInstitution: BFI National Film TheatreComment: