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The Pain machineArtist: Kirschner, Morawe, ReiffComment:

SoundSlam already was a lot of fun, but it lacked the motivation to get more deeply involved. So we developed a game around the original idea: after some freefight-punching, the voice of a virtual trainer guides you through different sound themes...

PainStation comprises a box structure housing a horizontal screen over which the two players face each other. The software is based on Pong, an early computer game. Players use their right hands to control a bat on screen, and must keep their left...

Biometric identificationsystems like Irisscanning use mathematical methods to identify personal characteristics. The BiometricSoundEngine works the same way. Personal data like the color information of the human iris is not used for surveillance or...

Sensegenerator recombines basic blocks of the german language to form sentences with fresh and unexpected meaning. The physical state of person gives clues for the complexity of the new sentence's structure. Words were sampled from arbitrary texts....

The ASCII_Fur_Engine is a program-routine that creates random patterns of ascii-characters based on a set of parameters. These patterns can vary in size, shape, color etc. and thus have a wide range of flavors. None of the created ascii-furs is equal...

Speakeasy is a telephone service that connects new immigrants with bilingual community members who are familiar with local resources and social service options. This project provides access to language interpretation wherever it is needed. To use the...

Loc-reverb develops Colson’s themes of location and memory, concerns seen in an earlier CD-ROM "Mindtracker". Loc-reverb blends photography and moving elements to portray the artist’s interrogation of locations, in particular London. It presents the...

The visitor enters a dimly lit room. On a projection screen runs the text that is written by nobody. The keys of the keyboard move as if by a ghost's hand. A monotone, mechanical voice reads out the generated text, sentence by sentence.

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Meet Pikapika--a character influenced by anime and manga; Japanese pop animation and comics. Pikapika embodies movements from bunraku (puppet theater), a movement vocabulary Tomie Hahn studied while learning nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance)...