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  • Echelon -
    This work was made in response to a call by Metamute (London) for Jam Echelon Day 2001. It simply employs all the words stored in the Echelon system in a program that automatically generates texts using whatever dictionary it has available.
  • Lenticular Bicycle is the first sculpture in the series to use human energy. The pedal-powered movie references the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the hacked bicycles that are roughly converted for use in family businesses throughout Southeast
  • AirportSim -
    AirportSim aids an airport manager interested in efficiency to distribute resources throughout a model airport, balancing cost with customer satisfaction. The AirportSim application is made up of a number of user-manipulable simulation objects that
  • Urban Simulation -
    The Furp ("Future of Urban Planning") project exists as a first step toward disseminating the work undertaken in the Luminous Room project into the world at large. Specifically, we are engaged in a collaboration with MIT's Department of Urban
  • The I/O Bulb and the Luminous Room are the two central ideas in a project whose goal is the pervasive transformation of architectural space, so that every surface is rendered capable of displaying and collecting visual information. An I/O Bulb
  • Body Language -
    Body Language represents the second generation of interactive sound installations Rokeby created. The installation used three hand-built low-resolution (8x8 pixels) video cameras (see image above) to observe a 5 metre by 5 metre space. The images
  • Petite Terre -
    The work is made up of a small natural environment. Four small speakers are hidden under the leaves of the vegetation which covers most of the surface of this world. This world is in fact an island surrounded completely by water. The world is
  • The central element in "Silicon Remembers Carbon" is a large video image projected down onto a bed of sand on the floor of the installation space. In the second version, instead of laser-discs, the video source is made up from 2 streams of MPEG-2
  • Season in Hell -
    After four turbulent years serving the President, Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art & Technology took back the Department and made it his own. With the spectre of Orf as his guide (who bears witness to deteriorating
  • janus -
    A site specific installation, a 12-foot construction made of three light sources suspended above reflective surfaces in turn suspended above a 24+-foot drop, Installed in a warehouse next to the Thames in News Cross Gate, Londoon. (source: