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... Erzulie cannot grant the people of the world what they need in order to survive, but which makes them uniquely human. In the second half of the 20th century, Roy Ascott's manifesto proclaimed a new cybernetic era for art and social change, and in 2009...

... field in Canada, about one set of footsteps leading off into the distance. You go back to the book and flip to another section, about a piano player in a large empty apartment. He doesn't know he's playing the final etude to his own demise,...

...Digital video 4 mins 20 secs colour, stereo sound by Jon Rose Inspired by the book of the same title by Gustave Flaubert. Here Anthony is every one of us, the temptation our capacity to change the world and reshape it, through technology, in our own image. 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 text, music, and a...

... gallery visitors are extracted from the ground of the gallery floors and walls, and then looped back onto themselves at 20 second intervals. The result is that every action that has taken place in the gallery since the computer was turned on occurs...

... camera-guided “intelligent bombs”. Present-day computerised surveillance techniques employed by the Department of Homeland Security in the United States through the Patriot Act, provide a new and distressing backdrop for this piece. The installation was...

... despite their apparent differences. The first is the idea that it is the spectator who creates the picture and the second is that the life of a creation can be dependent on its owner (the Tamagochi). The two demonstrate the idea that a creation...