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... a "0" or a "1". On the lower LED display there is a continuous random selection of descriptor words from the library's database of book titles. On the spiral display hanging above, these words are directly translated into continuously changing binary...

... each other. While the Distributed Legible City shows the same urban textual landscape as the original Legible City, this database now takes on a new meaning. The texts are no longer the sole focus of the user's experience, but instead becomes...

... movement as an indicator of "mood". The user moves through an impressionistic visual experience based in a digital video database. The question of Embodiment is central: we attempted to production a system which "speaks the language of the body"....

... process when it encounters certain words in the viewer's phrase that match those stored in the program's database. The database contains words from the following sources: J.G Ballard's "Crash", Michel Foucault's "The Order of...

... over 240 interconnected postcards classified into 24 categories or chapters. The intention of the work has been to explore database structures as a means of generating multi-linear narratives at a time when web search engines were introduced. Slippery...

... a set of ten possibilities. Every so often, the reflection scenes are animated. Depending on the particular make-up of the database, (which objects the audience has invested time in front of), the program shows a matrix schemata showing the database values...

... contributed over 3000 objects in their possession, digitally scanning and describing them. This information was stored in a database and organized by an algorithm that positioned objects of similar value near each other in a two-dimensional map. The map of...

... Encounters" consists of animated visual and Spanish, English text segments that are programmed in random sequence by a database. The project takes as its starting point the often heard expressions "ships passing in the night", or "chance encounters"....

... somewhere between a local event-installation, a site-specific work in which the site itself is both my body and a remote database, a simulcast on TV and the Web, and interactive webscanning of my body. The live component of the piece was realized on...

... emerges. As one pushes the shape, it activates sounds that are derived from molecular measurements and texts that are from a database consisting of quotes from the writings of Gimzewski, Vesna, newspaper headlines, academic papers, corporate sales and...