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  • Inspired by the "Industrial Revolution" and the subsequent changes in human development brought about by that revolution. A path that has and will lead humanity to both heaven and hell. I wanted to try to capture the paradox of this duality by
  • Role Playing Egas (Moniz): Net. Art Project under a workshop at Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon (CCB 2005)Artist: Patrícia GouveiaComment:
  • Plane -
    Three destinations host this performance, which consists of producing the same “micro-action” of throwing a paper plane. A video relates the stages of these initiation voyages to a Stalin- era building in Moscow, to the Grand Canyon in Arizona and
  • Cheap Imitation -
    "Cheap Imitation" is an homage to Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp was of course an inveterate re-user of existing works of art. In "Cheap Imitation", Rokeby has cut up Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" into the several hundred facets that make up
  • Sorting Daemon -
    Like many of Rokeby's other works, "Sorting Daemon" surveys its environment and uses the resulting images as the primary content of the work. In this specific case, the system looks out onto the street, panning, tilting and zooming, looking for
  • Brighter Later -
    Brighter Later, was a temporary light installation commissioned for the Radcliffe Observatory at Green Templeton College as part of Tracing Venus, the University of Oxford’s Public Art Programme for the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. Inspired by
  • On Broadway -
    Interactive application and a public installation commissioned by New York Public Library for its exhibition "The Public Eye" How does a "data city" look like? We did not want to show the data in a conventional way using only graphs and numbers. We
  • Two fully functioning saunas are linked via the Internet, equipped with media streaming and interactive video tools. Though perhaps on different continents, the two saunas position their users in almost identical physical states, in a sense closer
  • International Feel -
    "International Feel" was David Rokeby re-installation of his earlier work "Body Language." It took place in the context of the Strategic Arts Initiative 2.0, a re-installation of the seminal 1986 telepresence exhibition "Strategic Arts Initiative"
  • San Marco Flow -
    "San Marco Flow" layers all the actions of people and pigeons on Piazza San Marco in Venice into a pair of evolving images representing two views of the recent history of activities there. The images are, in effect, lit by animate presence; things