Keyword Index
Selected keyword: database
Work: 15 Minutes of Biometric Fame
Artist: General
Comment: 15 Minutes of Biometric Fame not only highlights paradoxes associated with celebrity recognition within the entertainment industry and instant fame received through various Web 2.0 applications, but...
Work: A Planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe)
Artist: Callanan, Martin John
Comment: A Planetary Order is a terrestrial globe showing clouds from one single moment in time, thereby subtly highlighting the fragility and interdependence of the Earth’s environmental systems.
Showing...
Work: Alchemy
Artist: Biggs, Simon
Comment: Interactive digital video installation
2 interactive laser discs under computer control
colour, silent
Alchemy is an interactive illuminated manuscript, inspired by medieval books such as Les...
Work: Anti-NATO Day - Participatory Cyber Attacks - STOPtheNATO.org
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This project unfolded around an anti-NATO militarism web portal that was founded in August 2001 and ran until late 2006. The website gained international popularity over the years through covering...
Work: Babel
Artist: Biggs, Simon
Comment: Babel is a site specific work for a non-site. The context of the work is non-physical. The site is an abstract thing...information space and the taxonomy of knowledge that all libraries...
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: City of glass: Sideways
Artist: Sukumaran, Ashok
Comment: COLAB Art and Architecture, Bangalore
Two-person show with Christoph Schäfer, who lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.
Not long ago, architectural modernism presented the glass facade as...
Work: Cyclone
Artist: & Baily & Mackenzie, Corby
Comment: YCLONE.SOC brings together two contemporary phenomena:
severe weather, the project uses weather data that charts the emergence and progress of hurricanes.
the polarized nature of debate that...
Work: Dadameter
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: Global index of the decay of the aura of language, the Dadameter aims at measuring our distance to Dada. It was inspired by the work of the french writer Raymond Roussel.
The project is a satire...
Work: data.film
Artist: Ikeda, Ryoji
Comment: how many points are there in a line?
What is the number of numbers?
How can we verify that the random is random?
data.film is part of the datamatics project, which is a series of experiments that...
Work: data.spectra
Artist: Ikeda, Ryoji
Comment: data.spectra is the first work of the data.series. Across the entire width of a darkened room is an intensely bright, narrow screen. On moving closer, the screen reveals that the source of the flood...
Work: Database of Provincial Life: Database
Artist: Manovich, Lev
Comment: Database of Provincial Life uses digital computers to accomplish a task which was impossible to achieve using any previous representational medium: documenting EVERYTHING which happen to EVERYBODY...
Work: datamatics [prototype-ver.2.0]
Artist: Ikeda, Ryoji
Comment: Using pure data as a source for sound and visuals, datamatics combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space in a powerful and breathtakingly accomplished work. datamatics is...
Work: db
Artist: Ikeda, Ryoji
Comment: Ikeda's sound installation in an anechoic chamber is intended to quite physically explode the senses. Using the highest and lowest frequencies that human ears can bear, db is a hyper-dense...
Work: Desire of Codes
Artist: Mikami, Seiko
Comment: In an information-oriented society, the encoding of individual information occurs immediately, almost as fast as the satisfaction of a desire. Our consumption habits, our criminal history, our...
Work: Die Sprache der Dinge
Artist: Hegedüs, Agnes
Comment: Die Sprache der Dinge is an archive of personal memorabilia presented on a conveyor belt-like 'shelf' on the black monitor screen, and able to be arranged according to numerous objective...
Work: die.txt
Artist: & Baily & Mackenzie, Corby
Comment: die.txt is a bio-engineered text editor. As the user types, individual
words spawn outgrowths of alternative meanings and definitions. These
metonyms are sucked from Wordnet, a lexical reference...
Work: Exploded Views 2.0
Artist: De Nijs, Marnix
Comment: Exploded_Views 2.0 by Marnix de Nijs is a masterpiece. No doubt about it. It is the most beautiful work of interactive media art I have ever seen. But its most peculiar aspect is that neither its...
Work: GPSFilm
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: GPS Film is the first locative media narrative system to merge mobile and GPS technologies. A way to watch cinema based on the viewer’s location and movement, the original source code was released...
Work: Horizon
Artist: Thomson & Craighead
Comment: Horizon is a narrative clock made out of images accessed in realtime from webcams found in every time zone around the world. The result is a constantly updating array of images that read like a...
Work: Human Browser
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: A human being embodies
the World Wide Web
Human Browser is a series of Wi-Fi performances based on a Google Hack, where the usual technological interface is replaced with the oldest interface we...
Work: I wanted to see all of the News From Today
Artist: Callanan, Martin John
Comment: I Wanted to See All of the News From Today provides an immersive experience by amassing the front page of hundreds of newspapers from around the world and displaying these images within the screen...
Work: Imaginary Museum of Revolutions
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: An Imaginary Museum of Revolutions was a proposed multimedia installation to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. The basic concept was to address 200 revolutions from the...
Work: Listening Post
Artist: Rubin, Ben
Comment: Listening Post is situated in the permanent collections of the Science Museum, South Kensington, London, and is on site loan to the Decode exhibition. It can be viewed on the first floor of the...
Work: London Dig
Artist: Biggs, Simon
Comment: London Dig is composed of four 42 inch plasma screens arranged in a rectangular array of two by two screens, creating a larger single image. The imagery displayed on the screens derives from numerous...
Work: matrix [for container]
Artist: Ikeda, Ryoji
Comment: date | place
OCT 2-7, 2001 Centraal Musuem, Utrecht, NL
concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda
commissioned by Impakt Festival, 2001
Work: News/Reel
Artist: Pui San Lok, Susan
Comment: NEWS and REEL (2005) were developed during an artist’s residency undertaken at the Media Archive for Central England (MACE), in September 2005. The residency was one of three organised as part...
Work: Packet Garden
Artist: Oliver, Julian
Comment: Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore.
To do this, Packet Garden takes note of all the...
Work: Passion5
Artist: Knowbotic Research
Comment: The intervention of Knowbotic Research includes several, sometimes contradictory levels. On the one hand, it reflects political culture in the early 21st Century, pointing to its limits. mutate to a...
Work: Pockets full of Memories
Artist: Legrady, George
Comment: During the exhibition of Pockets full of Memories in the Centre Pompidou 20000 visitors came to view the installation and contributed over 3000 objects in their possession, digitally scanning and...
Work: Propagation of the Luminous Word
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: This work addresses the notion of a library of the written language, and gives special aesthetic emphasis to the digital (binary) transformation of language to embody the context of the LBC as a...
Work: Reconnoitre
Artist: & Baily & Mackenzie, Corby
Comment: Reconnoitre is part of an ongoing series of works concerned with our experience of the network as a bizarre_scape; an environment with a high metabolism whose boundaries are continuously re-shaped;...
Work: Social Collider
Artist: Schmidt, Karsten
Comment: Karsten Schmidt, also known as Toxi, is the director of Post Spectacular, the London-based design studio. At the heart of his practice lies the use of code as a creative tool and open-source...
Work: Soft Cinema
Artist: Manovich, Lev
Comment: Initiated by Lev Manovich in 2002, Soft Cinema project mines the new creative possibilities at the intersection of cinema, software culture, and architecture. Its manifestations include...
Work: spectra
Artist: Ikeda, Ryoji
Comment: date | place
MAY 4 - JUN 20, 2001 Mica Moca, Milan, IT
concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda
commissioned by Mica Moca, 2001
spectra is a series of large scale installations...
Work: spectra [for Terminal 5 JFK]
Artist: Ikeda, Ryoji
Comment: 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,...
Work: spectraII
Artist: Ikeda, Ryoji
Comment: The installation relies on the intersection of sound and architecture and continues Ikeda's interest in phenomena - be they light, tone or sound - and how they materialise and manifest themselves in...
Work: Text Trends
Artist: Callanan, Martin John
Comment: Text Trends deals with the spectacularization of information. Using Google data it explores the vast search data of its users. The animation takes the content generated by search queries and reduces...
Work: Thalamus
Artist: Thomson & Craighead
Comment: 'Thalamus' is a simple user led environment designed for DATA projection into a gallery space where the user navigates the work with a mouse or slider set on a plinth placed squarely infront of the...
Work: The Southern Ocean Studies
Artist: & Baily & Mackenzie, Corby
Comment: In 2009 we began a project with the British Antarctic Survey to explore how the data it derives from its research in the Southern Ocean could be redeployed in public forms. The project builds out...
Work: Their Things Spoken
Artist: Hegedüs, Agnes
Comment: Their Things Spoken is the third part of a trilogy which deals with different aspects of memory and visual archetypes in our culture, the first two being Memory Theater (1997) and Things Spoken...
Work: Things Spoken
Artist: Hegedüs, Agnes
Comment: Most people collect objects during their lives. These can be gifts, souvenirs, momentos, personal artifacts, found things, etc. Their significance for their 'collectors' are usually...
Work: T_Visionarium
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: T_Visionarium, by Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Matt McGinity, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel, is an experimental new media work that offers the means to capture and re-present televisual information,...
Work: We Feel Fine
Artist: Harris, Jonathan
Comment: We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.
Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system...
Work: Weather Gauge
Artist: Thomson & Craighead
Comment: In Weather Gauge, numerical weather data from over 150 countries is simultaneously represented in a gallery forming an array of hypnotic animated data referencing a huge global spread of live...