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  • Swarming Lounge 2.0 is a mixed-reality performance and installation where visitors come to meet four live performers and nine augmented-reality characters displayed on smartphones. All characters, both real and virtual, are embedded in the
  • 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 luminal tunnel of Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport was always the perfect symbolic experience of the future. With its plunging vanishing point and soaring roofline, Saarinen's theatrical passage embodied, if not created,
  • AME: Art After Museum -
    an art collection concieved by contemporary artists for virtual reality OPUS IN MACHINA > IMAGO EX MACHINA ART EXPLORER : AN ACTIVE SPECTATOR Milestones for an Art After Museum Is there thing such as Art After Museum ? Cosa Mentale Back to
  • Elevator's Music -
    The site-specific installation “Elevator’s Music”, visits the topic of synthetic creatures becoming sentient. What if centuries from now, we had the technology to make any machine self-aware? In this distant future, if an elevator could be
  • Mirrors of the Unseen -
    Site specific ceiling drawing Regional hospital Hohenems (A), competition The work 'Mirrors of the Unseen' for the regional hospital Hohenems deals with technically generated images, with questions of translatability and the interpretation of
  • Tele-touch
    Tele-Touch explores the notion of human touch and telepresence in a computer networked environment. It consists of a jacket equipped with wireless touch output devices that allow the person wearing the jacket to be touched by visitors to the
  • The Tables Turned is preceded by Telematic Dreaming from 1992 and Telematic Vision from 1993. This installation is a continuation of the telematic theme placed within another social context. Dreaming used the bed, Vision used the sofa and The Tables
  • The Spectrascope -
    The gallery installation of The Spectrascope consists of a large scale projection of the image updating in real-time accompanied by the 'fear frequency'*. This is an audio frequency of 19hz, which is just below the range of normal
  • Escape © 2012, Laurent MIGNONNEAU & Christa SOMMERER developed for The View Contemporary Art Space Swizerland The installation "Escape" deals with the issue of flight attempt. It was originally developed as site specific installation in the civilian