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  • Over a few days in February 2014, a revolution took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. How was this exceptional event reflected on Instagram? What can visual social media tell us about the experiences of people during social upheavals? If we look at images of
  • "Geometries of Power" is a multi-user online 3D world that uses the interactive characteristics of space, geometry and sound to question concepts of power and control. Beginning with the blank canvas of a faceless modern city, participants
  • Timeline
    Timeline (2004) started out as a poem about getting old, for which I collected a small database of images found on the web which resonated with the lines from the poem. Interactively, the work is based on the device used in packages like Adobe
  • The November 1973 issue of Scientific American featured an article titled “The Recognition of Faces” by Bell Labs researcher Leon Harmon that explained how we perceive pixelated digital photographic images. Using a low-resolution, portrait of
  • In the installation "Industrial Evolution," users can interact with historic images from the time of the Industrial Revolution. Images of factories, mines, assembly lines, production facilities and related administration facilities show the
  • Imaginary Workspaces is a series inspired by dystopian science fiction narratives as written by Stanislaw Lem and Philip K. Dick that imagine fictional industrial workspaces. This collection of invented images oscillate between retro futuristic
  • In this interactive laser-disc-based work the viewer has to push a protruding steel bar to rotate a column-mounted monitor which in turn animates the images on its screen. A friction plate forces the viewers to exert themselves physically. Turning
  • new skin -
    The Broad Art Foundation's new skin, 2002, presents an evolution from Aitken's earlier styles, both physically and conceptually. Projected from four corners of a room onto a pair of suspended, intersecting oval screens, the work is part film and
  • asciiimage -
    ASCIIImage aims at creating an online tool to generate ASCII art from jpg images uploaded by its visitors. This net-art work discusses the intersections of words and images by implementing an algorithm that recognizes luminance of different areas of