Keyword Index
Selected keyword: machine
Work: 400s
Artist: Menné, Henrik
Comment: henrik menné
400s, 2010
Stearin, iron, wood, various electronics
Supported by: The Danish Arts Council Committee for Visual Arts
Courtesy: Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhague
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Work: Acoustic Environment
Artist: McCormack, Jon
Comment: A collection and exhibition of a disparate yet representative array of machine sounds, analogous to the collection and display of zoological 'samples'. Developed in colaboration with Gary...
Work: Autoinducer_Ph-1
Artist: Gracie, Andy
Comment: Autoinducer_Ph-1 (cross cultural chemistry) exploits a traditional rice cultivation technique from SE Asia where Azolla is grown in large quantities and used as an organic, nitrogen rich fertilizer...
Work: Bejing Accelerator
Artist: Gracie, Andy
Comment: This installation examines the precarious balance of machine, image and body in time and the effects that accelerated forces of gravity have on today's urban citizenry. By manipulating both elements...
Work: Brakelights
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Brakelights is a real-time computer system that senses color changes in the environment to make choices from a database of dialogue lines…a live cinema-generating machine. The program reads the color...
Work: Darker than Night
Artist: Kac, Eduardo
Comment: "Darker Than Night" is a telepresence artwork which explores the human-machine-animal interface and telepresence as a means of mediating relations of empathy. In this interactive piece, participants,...
Work: Drawing Machine 3.1415926 v.2
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: Drawing Machine 3.1415926 v. 2 explores the notion of generative art or art that makes art on its own. The piece consists of a three tiered mobile sculpture that is driven by the vibration of a...
Work: Elektron
Artist: Toots, Timo
Comment: Elektron is a site-specific installation examining the path of electricity from the source to the endpoint in the gallery. Electricity is invisible to the eye and yet indispensable in contemporary...
Work: Extruder
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: The automobile is a fascinating machine. Since its inception the automobile has driven us faster and faster into the future. Carving out the modern world, it has done brilliantly, reproducing itself...
Work: GENMA
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: GENMA is a machine, that enables us to manipulate 'Nature'.
Nature exemplary is represented as artificial nature of a micro scale: abstract amoeboid artificial three-dimensional forms...
Work: Golem
Artist: Biggs, Simon
Comment: Digital video installation
2 monitors and 12 channel audio, colour, sound
audio by Hans Peter Kuhn
Golem was a two channel video installation where the two monitors were arranged like the...
Work: Haptic Opposition
Artist: Schiessl, Simon
Comment: Haptic Opposition is centered around a mechanically movable text display driven both by human beings and machine control. Different modes of force feedback interaction are embedded, as machine on its...
Work: Hybrid Invention Generator
Artist: Seaman, Bill
Comment: The Hybrid Invention Generator (2001) is a work that explores a "machinic genetics." Users of the system can scroll through a series of inventions, choose two different inventions and generate the...
Work: Ise D'oil
Artist: Hegedüs, Agnes
Comment: Length: 4min. 30sec.
An imaginary conversation between two gyroscopes - their memories and their capacities for union. The idea is expressed by conjugating two different camera views of the same...
Work: Lastwishes
Artist: Katastrofsky, Carlos
Comment: Only through two narrow slots white endless paper slides through abrown box, at least every ten minutes a message appears:"No communication on this channel", date and time. Listening but not talking...
Work: Machine Dreams
Artist: Scott, Jill
Comment: The installation "Machine Dreams" uses video to trigger zones of individual sound samples. It is an interactive installation that uses the reaction of the participant to the visual component of the...
Work: Memopol-II
Artist: Toots, Timo
Comment: Memopol-2 is a social machine that maps the visitor’s information field. When an identification document such as a national ID card or a passport is inserted into it, the machine starts collecting...
Work: Mulholland Drive
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Three artists drove Los Angeles' famous Mulholland Drive with five types of sensors--measuring the tilt, direction, altitude, speed and engine sound of the car. The captured data was then used to...
Work: Nature Time
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment:
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Within the exhibition gallery, three curved screens were carefully positioned, allowing visitors to view at least two screens from any room location. In front of each screen, on a green-colored...
Work: Phoney
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: Most days we spend a great deal of time watching screens and massaging interfaces. It is only through the looking glass of our devices that we may assume our electronic doppelganger. Wearing it like...
Work: Pride of our young nation
Artist: Penny, Simon
Comment: Pride of our young nation is a meditation on machines of war and the psychology which motivates their construction. Its material construction echoes the archetype of a piece of field artillery,...
Work: Sakrileg
Artist: Schiessl, Simon
Comment: This work of kinetic art is a machine that balances a little red ball on a cambered surface. By horizontally turning this tread clockwise or anticlockwise by a powerful motor, the control unit tries...
Work: Super Eva is a dance piece for man and machine
Artist: Shor, Shirley
Comment: A 'Dance piece for man and machine' by media artist Marnix de Nijs and dancer Eva Maria Christ from the Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel. The piece was developed through the Synergy workshop in a...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 3: Praxinoscope Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The 19th century Praxinoscope consisted of a circular beveled mirror reflecting a series of animation frames. When the device is spun, a moving image appears on the mirror. Using wind as the power...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 4: Shadow Play
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The silhouettes of the ancient art of Shadow Play are achieved by light penetrating a translucent screen, and this sculpture uses the rotation of the windmill as the power to generate the backlight...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 5: Dual Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The Dual is an optical illusion in which two disks rotate in opposite directions; the front disk is black with slits that act as a shutter, the rear disk contains the animation frames. When the disks...
Work: The Connection Machines CM-1 and CM-2
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The Connection Machine was the first commercial computer designed expressly to work on simulating intelligence and life. A massively parallel supercomputer with 65,536 processors, it was the...
Work: the conversation
Artist: Baecker, Ralph
Comment: ralf baecker
the conversation, 2009
99 solonoides, custom electronics (microcontrollers/drivers), strings, rubberbands, wires
Production support: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial,...
Work: Time and Time again
Artist: Hershman Leeson, Lynn
Comment: Time&Time Again extends media navigation to a site-specific context with both web- and body-based interfaces. A distributed interactive installation, the piece was commissioned by the Wilhelm...
Work: Untitled
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: On a square lattice at least one coordinate of an equilateral triangle must be irrational. An irrational number has no finite numerical representation. An equilateral triangle represented on a...