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Under Scan is an interactive video art installation for public space. In the work, passers-by are detected by a computerized tracking system, which activates video-portraits projected within their shadow. Over one thousand video-portraits of...

"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...

Still ALife is an interactive monitor reacting to the presence and the distance of the observer to produce continuously changing three dimensional abstract and organic growing forms. © 2005, Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU

shellscript on custom made computer
white standard typography on black background

In short intervals, a text sequence appears on the screen of a transparent object with the promising

Sentence by sentence, second by second, with each new...

roots, 2005-2006

Glasstank, water, ironsulfate, copperwires, platinum, computer, sound system



The sculpture works in a cyclic way. Two thirds of the cycle it is active: a crystal object is growing and stretching in space. This can be...

The intervention of Knowbotic Research includes several, sometimes contradictory levels. On the one hand, it reflects political culture in the early 21st Century, pointing to its limits. mutate to a worker moving recorded chants to mere sound that is...

Re-engeneering and Re-enactment of a stealthboat as shown in a Tamil Tiger propaganda video footage. The Tamil Tiger video footage was found on internet sites of private analysts of clandestine weapon systems.
The boat is patrolling river banks. The...

data.spectra is the first work of the data.series. Across the entire width of a darkened room is an intensely bright, narrow screen. On moving closer, the screen reveals that the source of the flood of light into the room is a vast array of tiny...

Compass is a kind of orientation machine to wear around your waist that gives you directions while you are walking through virtual corridors and rooms. These have been programmed to fit the physical exhibition space or any other venue. The machine...

Elgin Talkies is a 110-year old theatre in Shivaji Nagar. This electrical installation, mostly held up with cellotape and binding wire and reconfigured almost every day, was up for 5 evenings at the theatre and on the street outside it.

The...