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Corporate Commands Created May 2004 Institute for Infinitely Small Things
Corporate Commands is an ongoing series of public space performances based on corporate advertisements in the form of the imperative such as "Just Do It", "Turn on the Future", "Think different", etc. The Institute for Infinitely Small Things performs these corporate commands where they occur... Activism Exhibited Project Performance Art
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Mandatory Minimum–We Have... Created May 2004 Mandatory Minimum—We Have Moved! is comprised of an urban intervention located adjacent to a Home Depot in Brooklyn and the chain link fence installation at Eyebeam that displays documentation of past Orange Work projects. The Home Depot intervention is comprised of a large printed sign that... Exhibited Project Installation Urban Intervention
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ACCESS Created April 2004 ACCESS lets you track anonymous individuals in public places, by pursuing them with a robotic spotlight and acoustic beam system. The work provokes questions about surveillance technology, contemporary advertising, and the entertainment industry. ACCESS was created by Eyebeam resident Marie Sester and is... Activism R&D Lab Software Sound Video Web
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Struck Created March 2004 Anna Munster Michele Barker
Struck is a video and sound installation that begs the question of how do we gain an “understanding” of disease through the visual interpretation of data. The piece addresses the development and implications of visualisation techniques as they are used in the detection and interpretation of neurological... Data Visualization Installation Sound Video
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n-cha(n)t Created March 2004 n-cha(n)t is an audio visual installation that allows participants to eavesdrop on or infiltrate the conversational patterns of a networked community of computers. Inspiration for the work came from a strong and somewhat inexplicable desire to hear a community of computers speaking together:... |
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Interactive Plant Growing... Created March 2004 Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
Designing interfaces between vegetal and device-related systems, between man and machine, is one of the greatest challenges of interactive technology. No differently than in the industrial context, here too, the use of intuitive and user-friendly control tendencies is supremely decisive. With ... Exhibited Project Installation Physical Computing
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Inter-Discommunication Ma... Created March 2004 Kazuhiko Hachiya’s Inter Dis-Communication Machine, composed of a video camera, transmitters, head mounted displays, batteries, and feathers is a communication system aimed at transmitting and receiving sensual experiences.
Used by two people wearing head-mounted displays, the ‘... |
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America's Finest Created March 2004 America’s Finest (1993-5) utilizes an M-16 rifle and manipulated optics to question the identity of agressor and victim and the role played by images of war in the psyche of the observer. The work enacted the idea of Étienne Jules Marey's camera-gun, already implicit in Room of One's Own, her... |
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Think about the people no... Created March 2004 Think of the people now is a Commodore Amiga hyper-media computer programme, based on the theme of a media reported event from the 1990 Remembrance Ceremony in Whitehall, London. A young man ran out from the crowd and set fire to himself and shouted the words "think about the people now" in... |
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Videoplace Created March 2004 Katrin Hinrichsen Myron Krueger
The goal of Videoplace was not to create an art work that happened to be interactive, but to raise interactivity itself to the level of an art medium. This required redefining the human interface so that the system perceived the movements of participants' bodies rather than receiving... |
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Jet Set Willy Variations... Created March 2004 Jet Set Willy Variations consists of modifications of the 1984 video game Jet Set Willy. The original game was made for the obsolete British computer Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which was popular in the early 1980s.
"These versions of Jet Set Willy...become increasingly more abstract, finding... |
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Mahdohkt Created January 2004 Geraldine Juarez Melanie Crean Shirin Neshat
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Tentacle Created January 2004 Tentacle, from Swedish arts collaborative Beeoff (Olle Huge, Tomas Linell and Mikael Scherdin), is a receptor-sculpture on a network that feeds streamed content (“streaming media”) over the Internet to several stations. During Works in Process ,Tentacle will gathers and transmits sound and images from nodes... Digital Cinema Hacking Performance Art Sound Television Video Web
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Kabul: Constitutions (200... Created January 2004 Kabul: Constitutions investigates the question of how our imaginaries of the architectures of democracy overlap with the real spaces where the structures of the state are materially and politically invested and contested. Viewers participating in an interactive video installation and accompanying web... Activism Middle East Documentary Immersive Installation Web
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Scissorfriends Created January 2004 Scissorfriends, is both DVD zine and installation. Expanding the metaphor of the paper zine into a 3-dimensional experience, Scissorfriends highlights a series of DVDs crafted with original and found video and audio content, exploring questions about the impact of format and technology on deeply personal... |
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Fundrace Created January 2004 Cory Arcangel Jonah Peretti Michael Frumin
Fundrace applies novel technologies such as geocoding to federal election information adding dimension to abstract, disparate data while highlighting trends and relationships. Contributions can be tracked by name or address providing unprecedented access to political... Activism Contagious Media R&D Lab Data Visualization
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ForwardTrack Created January 2004 Alexander Galloway Ann Poochareon Cory Arcangel James Powderly Jesse Bednarz Jonah Peretti Kenyatta Cheese Michael Frumin Michal Migurski
The latest release from Eyebeam R&D is ForwardTrack, a system for tracking and mapping the circulation of email forwards, political calls-to-action and petitions. ForwardTrack is designed to encourage activism by graphically revealing the power of social-networks and demonstrating the impact of the... Activism Contagious Media R&D Lab Web
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Carnivore Created January 2004 Carnivore is a surveillance tool for data networks created by RSG featuring Eyebeam resident Alex Galloway. At the heart of the project is CarnivorePE, a software application that listens to all Internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.) on a specific local... |
