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  • ... the typical rather than the exceptional - provincial existence rather than the major cities and major historical figures - Database of Provincial Life is able to achieve unprecedented level of representational compression: reducing the whole of the 20th...
  • Soundcities -
    ... to remix the hundreds of samples recorded from around the world and then save their own mix. Soundcities is an online database of the thousands of sounds from around the world. The website also has series on online mixing desks where you can mix these...
  • UNPREPARED PIANO -
    ...In Unprepared Piano, a Yamaha disklavier grand piano is connected to a database of music MIDI files appropriated and compiled from all over the web. This library of electronic scores is then “performed” automatically according to a simple set of rules.The musical...
  • Non-weddings -
    ... Exhibitions: 2006: Galerie Sollertis 2004: Media Art Net, ZKM, curated by Rudolf Frieling (ZKM) 2002: Vidarte, Mexico City, Database Desire, curated by Rudolf Frieling (ZKM) « (…) Another net based project in search of our relationship towards images as a...
  • Epiphanies - video
    ... it has become and I was sure that my piece would disappear very soon since it lives on Google and feeds itself from Google’s database like a vampire. Hence this piece was supposed to have a doubly ephemeral aspect: first because each epiphany was by essence an...
  • ... the network, offered a social platform on Twitter, allowing to follow through an intelligent system of websemantics and datamining the cultural memory of characters. In a database with artistic, scientific and historical terms, worldwide accessible on...
  • Exploded Views 2.0 -
    ... 2.0 consist of point clouds generated from huge Web 2.0 photo collections like Flickr. The work is basically a database of 350 reconstructions of the most famous buildings on five continents, derived from 100,000 web images, rendered in real...
  • Timeline
    ...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 Premiere and Macromedia...
  • Which one is true? -
    ... the audience and then proceeds to capture images of them and record them. The participants’ faces are then stored in a databank and composited to form images with their faces altered. The images with the altered faces are then projected and displayed at...
  • ... is shown on the display and within it reporters begin to talk. Every 5 minutes the piece switches the video clips — from a database of 1600— and classifies them along gender, race and country, so that for instance on the left there are only American...