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digital "Minuets and Polonaise" is a digital transcription of 6 of the 18 pieces from the Anna Magdalena Notebook (Klavier-Büchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach) by Johann Sebastian Bach.

The initial installation in the Plasm series, this piece was inspired by Allen Kay's talk on artificial life forms and simulated ecologies at SIGGRAPH the preceding year. A real-world living room setting, complete with sofa, coffee table, potted...

Toshio Iwai about Time Stratum II: "In this installation, I placed 120 paper human figures on a motorised spinning disk. Iset up a video monitor above them, while strobing the light down, the paper figures all burst into motion.

By using a video...

Sky is a collection of conceptual pieces to transform nuclear weapons into works of art. (Iris-Project) (source: http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/papers/CAE_catalogue_MTL.pdf#search=%22george%20gessert%20iris%22)

In this project, Davis broadcast recorded vaginal contractions of ballerinas and beamed this interpretation of ‘human conception’ to the Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti star systems using Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Millstone radar. In 1995,...

Reabracadabra, 1985 - Videotext animated poem shown in 1985 in the group exhibition Arte On-Line, a national videotext art gallery presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo.

In 2003 Reabracadabra was adapted for cel phones.

A work using simulated recombinant genetic algorithms. The piece used two live computed image sources for two of the monitors, one prerecorded computer animated sequence and two live video feeds from surveilance camera's installed in the space. A...

Telling Motions Bill Seaman 1985-86, 20:10 min, color, sound This dreamlike, hypnotic work is structured in four sections, each of which repeats, in various permutations, key visual and verbal systems. Part One introduces the main theme — a poetic...

Water Wheel(1985), a seven channel installation presented through a circle of monitors, incorporating material from The Water Catalogue Music by Bill Seaman In Water Wheel I was exploring fragments from the linear work The Water Catalogue. A...

Stage environment (after Douglas R Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach) [English title, The MU Puzzle] A media environment was integrated into the stage design of 'Mu-Rätsel', a theatrical production by Hubsi Kramar, shown in the Schauspielhaus Graz as...