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This mutant bicycle, the pedal and gear mechanism of which is made up of a flexible ladder, symbolizes the “seven deadly wishes”. Visitors are invited to climb up to the seat but when they try, the mechanism moves into reverse, turning the user into

... water trickles down into the hanging barrel, slowly lowering it back to the ground. The cycle repeats. The system is solar powered. The pump is intermittent, according to the weather. The barrel moves at a lethargic pace. It may take weeks to be levitated...

... rectangular openings. Housed above the rear of the tunnels are cylindrical reflectors, each outfitted with 3 small but high powered super bright blue LED’s. The cylinders can be adjusted so that the back screens are indirectly lit from the LED’s. In the...

... a platform for exploring emergent behaviour and intelligence using cellular systems, is the artificial intelligence model powering the synthetic bacteria. A complete virtual environment exists within GCS where individual cells act independently and...

...An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. The wind map shows the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. Fernanda Viégas and I created the wind map in the cold...

... of its first movement, there is a set of eight mobile tags embedded with a phone number. Each of these numbers is powered by a ringtone. Participants scan one of the displays containing a phone number encoded in QR-Code using their own QR Readers...

... Because of the lasered letters the disk routine stops and the write/read head goes back into its rest position, the disk powers down. A contact microphone is attached to the hard disk drive, recording the mechanical sounds of the moving disk and the...

... our existence as individuals becomes less and less dependent on our physical being. Our virtual identities become more powerful and flexible, but also unstable and difficult to define. Our consistent recognizable faces are left behind and all faces...

...The powerful social aspect of Sermon’s work is visualized in the site-specific installation A Body of Water (1999), created for the exhibition Connected Cities, which has an atmosphere that borders on the eerie. In a chroma-key room set up in Duisburg’s Wilhelm...