Keyword Index
Selected keyword: nature
Work: Akousmaflore
Artist: Scenocosme, Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt -
Comment: Akousmaflore is an interactive installation, a small garden composed of living musical plants, which react to human contacts. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact by producing a specific...
Work: Artificial Landscapes
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: 'Artificial Landscapes' were Land Art projects in the form of a series of photographic collages, a few of which were actually realized: Cloud of Daytime Sky at Night, Water Totems, Sandquake,...
Work: Biomer Skelters
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Biomer Skelters (“biome” + “helter-skelter“) is a crowd sourced, wild growth forest-to-rainforest propagator that creates a city-wide public artwork by connecting participants’ interior biorhythms to...
Work: Cloud (of daytime sky at night)
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A large cloud-shaped and air-inflated structure was suspended from the roof of the Stedelijk Museum. During the night an image of a daytime sky and clouds was projected onto it, accompanied by clouds...
Work: Clouding Green
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The world’s computing power is moving into the Cloud – but where does the Cloud get its energy?
A commission for the 2012 Zero1 Biennial and Samek Art Gallery, the artworks for “Clouding Green” are...
Work: Dialogue with the knowbotic south (DWTKS)
Artist: Knowbotic Research
Comment: Dialogue With The Knowbotic South-
strategies on a changing view of nature
A dynamic map of a data-land-scape providing a form of interaction with multilocal and multipresent...
Work: Digital Body-Automata
Artist: Scott, Jill
Comment: Housed in a white, clinical environment, Digital Body- Automata is divided into three parts. These installations are called: A Figurative History (past mechanical transformation); Interskin (present...
Work: Drowning NYC
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: This fiction informs the audience about rising sea levels due to global warming and how urban populations will cope with it. This experimental form of tactical transmedia fiction was told by actors...
Work: Eden
Artist: McCormack, Jon
Comment: Eden is an interactive, self-generating, artificial ecosystem. A cellular world is populated by collections of evolving creatures. Creatures move about the environment, making and listening to...
Work: Éphémère
Artist: Davies, Char
Comment: Ephémère is iconography evolved through Davies' long-standing practice as a painter, and, as in Osmose, is grounded in 'nature' as metaphor: archetypal elements of root, rock, and...
Work: Eternal Summer
Artist: Legrady, George
Comment: "Eternal Summer" is a site-specific, 4 screen installation commissioned for the waiting room of the Ebner, Stolz & Partners corporate office at the Kronencarre building in Stuttgart, Germany.
The...
Work: Genetic Seed Bank
Artist: Anker, Suzanne
Comment: Animation for artist Suzanne Anker. Video loop created from still image for video installation.
Work: Grove
Artist: Domingues, Diana
Comment: This videoinstallation offers an artificial and hybrid grove with trunks which support television sets with images of tree trunks. These pieces of trees like life pieces contrast with the trunks...
Work: I am a Sensor
Artist: Damm, Ursula
Comment: Seit den 90er Jahren haben sich zwischen den Künstler und sein Publikum jede Menge Apparate und Apparaturen geschoben. Kommunikation geschieht geplant, kontrolliert, reduziert, erweitert – kurz:...
Work: INCUBATOR Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science and Ecology
Artist: Willet, Jennifer
Comment: INCUBATOR Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science and Ecology
School for Arts and Creative Innovation, The University of Windsor
Director, Dr. Jennifer Willet
2009 – Ongoing
INCUBATOR...
Work: Life Spacies
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: "Life Spacies" is an interaction and communication space, where remotely located visitors can interact with each other through evolutionary forms and images.
"Life Spacies" enables visitors to...
Work: Liquid_Eden: The Discreet Paradise of Networks
Artist: Owens, Stephanie
Comment: Liquid Eden is a java-based Web project that visualizes the collective mark of networked communication.
Gardens have both a symbolic and personal relevance to the project. As a frequent subject...
Work: Mapping the void
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: Mapping the Void is a series of urban performances by Pessi Parviainen and Christophe Bruno. The performances study the relations between different physical places and the mapping of the global...
Work: Matières sensibles (Sensitive matters)
Artist: Scenocosme, Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt -
Comment: Matières sensibles (Sensitive matters)
Sound Sculpture on wood / Interactive marquetry & Bio hacking
Sensitive matter is a serie of sculptures made of very thin and delicate wood veneer sheets....
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: Neon Wave Sculpture
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Neon Wave Sculpture is an urban light sculpture that is interactively controlled by varying wind speeds. Mounted on the exterior wall of an apartment building, it is constituted by 48 sine-curved...
Work: Newtown Creek (oil spill)
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Newtown Creek is a massively contaminated Superfund site running through the Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. For the AR artwork "Newtown Creek (oil spill)"...
Work: NOMAD: THE RIVER
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: Nomad: The River is a 60 minute dance theater work created in collaboration with Chinese born, New York-based choreographer Yin Mei. The work is a haunting evocation of the choreographer's experience...
Work: OSMOSE
Artist: Davies, Char
Comment: An immersive interactive virtual-realty environment installation with 3D computer graphics and interactive 3D sound, a head-mounted display and real-time motion tracking based on breathing and...
Work: Panspermia
Artist: Sims, Karl
Comment: Panspermia is the name for the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores. This piece places the viewer in the
middle of a virtual world of an...
Work: Rainbow
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A large rainbow coloured inflatable arch from which a fine spray of water fell, creating real rainbows.
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 1: The Image Mill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The Image Mill is a public sculpture that uses the force and beauty of falling water as the energy to create a moving picture.
As water falls over the giant wheel, a transmission assembly causes two...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 2: Lenticular Bicycle
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Lenticular Bicycle is the first sculpture in the series to use human energy. The pedal-powered movie references the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the hacked bicycles that are roughly converted for...
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 Moon is a Mirror
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: This series of artworks contemplates the screen and its origins. My time in the villages of Southeast Asia has shown me an array of organic resources that can be formed into papers. I've researched...
Work: The Reproductive System
Artist: Biggs, Simon
Comment: Digital video installation
1 monitor
colour, silent
An installation using one monitor, one live computer feed (simulating in realtime the process of genetic recombinance), one rock with...
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: The Telegarden
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: The TeleGarden is an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via...
Work: Transformation
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Augmented Reality public art project, 4-channel video installation and interactive online map. Tamiko Thiel augments the neighborhood of Lehel in Munich with visions, texts, maps, the dreams of local...
Work: Universal Zoologies
Artist: McCormack, Jon
Comment: Universal Zoologies is an interconnected series of autonomous, self-generating, poetic spaces that are navigated by people experiencing the work. The project aims to represent emotive, abstract,...
Work: Water Lily Invasion
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: As global water levels and temperatures rise, plants and animals are mutating to adapt. Strange new creatures are arising at the interstices between plant and animal, questioning and transgressing...
Work: Web of Life
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The audio-visual environment “Web of Life” is formed by an immersive conjunction of projected three-dimensional computer graphic and video images, together with a fully spatialized acoustic...
Work: Wind and Rain
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A room was densely and completely filled with confetti that was being vigorously blown about by big fans. At one point a live elephant was brought into the room and the not realized intention...
Work: Wind Map
Artist: Wattenberg, Martin
Comment: An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. The wind map shows the delicate tracery of wind...
