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  • The society is always changing in a consequence of complex patterns of influences. The changes do not occur in a smooth flow but happens at different speeds at different times. The development of technology is given great importance in the history...
  • Influence, change and transformation are keywords in Peter Hagdahl’s ¦uvre. In 1992 Andréhn-Schiptjenko showed the installation Sustained where sculpture, painting, drawing, snapshots, paperclippings and a powerengine created a system ranging from...
  • TXTmob -
    TXTmob lets you quickly and easily share txt messages with friends, comrades, and total strangers. The format is similar to an email b-board system. You can sign up to send and receive messages from various groups, which are organized around a range...
  • Marchtowar -
    Online gambling meets political protest. Launched in the February 2003, Marchtowar.com allowed users to place $5 bets on the time and date when the US invasion of Iraq would begin. The winner was paid in pre-paid gasoline cards, all proceeds went to...
  • iSee -
    iSee is an application for web-browsers and PDAs that charts the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can find routes that avoid these cameras ("paths of least surveillance")...
  • RobotPHONE -
    RobotPHONE is a Robotic User Interface (RUI) that uses robots as physical avatars for interpersonal communication. Using RobotPHONE, users in remote locations can communicate shapes and motion with each other.

    For a long time, robots have chiefly...
  • Smart Tools -
    The word "haptization" means, "making it possible to touch". A typical example is the usage of haptic display devices in order to touch computer-generated images. Therefore, it is often called "haptization of information".

    Previous work on...
  • Metropolis -
    Interactive digital video projection environment 16 x 16 x 6 metres
    2 large scale video projections, colour
    A Little Pig Production, UK, 2005.
    Supported by Sheffield Hallam University Art and Design Research Centre
    Metropolis is composed of...
  • IDfone -
    Interactive digital video installation, variable size

    IDphone evokes an ambivalent conjunction between the Freudian notion of the Id, contemporary I.D. systems (biometrics) and a video-phone gone wrong. Employing digital "mirrors" that reflect...
  • Stream I Stream II -
    Stream deals with issues concerning presence, both physical and remote (virtual), and asks "what if" we all lost the ability to differentiate ourselves and our sense of singularity in the world? What would it be like if we could all see what...