Keyword Index
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Work: (W)orld Currency
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This artwork illustrates a global currency through the creative formulation of an equation and a trading algorithm for the currency exchange market. The visionary creation of algorithmic...
Work: A Public Misery Message: A Temporary Monument to Global Inequality
Artist: Critical Art Ensemble
Comment: CAE transforms statistical data on global economic inequality into an embodied spatial experience. Using a helicopter, participants are lifted to hover at a height that allows them to visualize the...
Work: All Hail Damien Hirst
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: At the Tate Modern, London: This is a permanent augmented reality intervention celebrating Damien Hirst's retrospective exhibition in 2012. The gold coins are a 2012 special edition of the British...
Work: Amazon Noir - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "In this project Amazon.com's website was the vulnerable target. We eluded their copyright protections with a sophisticated hack of the "Search Inside" service. We stole complete digital volumes of...
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: Architext
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Large LED alphanumeric units are mounted in a 13 x 9 grid on the stage tower of this theater. Like a conventional news sign textual information is scrolled through these elements, but because the...
Work: ARt Critic Face Matrix
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: In this geolocative augmented reality installation, a grid of ARt critics seem to scream "You call THIS ARt???"
On October 9 2010, Sander Veenhof & Mark Skwarek organized "We AR in MoMA," an...
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: artTrap
Artist: Benayoun, Maurice
Comment: In the main gallery of a contemporary art museum.
A big one...
A cubic room de 4 x 4 x 3m.No ceiling.
The top of the box is open.
This room is surrounded by 4 walls. In the middle of each...
Work: Check Check Reality
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This project focused on airport security regulations, seeing them as a worst-case scenario of playing on people's fears. It looked at how security is installed as a focal point in our daily lives....
Work: Connected (Blue) high resolution color print
Artist: Burns, David R.
Comment: Electronic technology and surveillance have added a digital dimension to Foucauldian panopticism and expanded the ways in which nations can continually monitor and control visitors’ entry through...
Work: Corpocinema
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Corpocinema ('corporeal cinema') was an expanded cinema environment presented in a series of open-air performances in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in 1967. The basic structure was a large...
Work: Crack it !
Artist: Knowbotic Research
Comment: connective force attack: open way to public
How to crack it!' was the information and encouragement the computer magazine PC Online offered to readers in issue 10/2000, followed by precise...
Work: Cyber Squeeks
Artist: Rinaldo, Ken E.
Comment: The Cyber-Squeek series spoofs the emergence of machine intelligence, in which electronics integrated with life-like forms, have begun to squeak their first words; in their language. Through multiple...
Work: Datamining Bodies in Ruhr
Artist: Vesna, Victoria
Comment: The project takes on two forms - the installation in an old mine in Dortmund: Zeche Zollern II/IV and the online version. The site-specific installation is experiential with sound taking on an...
Work: EVE Extended Virtual Environment
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: EVE is a research and development project initiated at the ZKM Karlsruhe in cooperation with the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. It encompasses the conceptual and technical development of a new form of...
Work: Face to Facebook - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: Face to Facebook texts from www.face
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to
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facebook.net
by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico. 2011
Logline: Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face
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recognition software...
Work: Fire
Artist: Domingues, Diana
Comment: The video performance had been presented in Salerno, Italy, during the ARTMEDIA Congress (1992). The space of Paula Verengia's Gallery had been drawned with slides and video projections on the...
Work: Flickering Signifiers
Artist: Rinaldo, Ken E.
Comment: Flickering Signifiers is an ambient light installation concerned with the rhythmic nature of television light and how it is used to seduce and compel the viewer into a kind of hypnotic and passive...
Work: Free Range Grain
Artist: Critical Art Ensemble
Comment: Free Range Grain was a live, performative action that used basic molecular biology techniques to test for genetically modified (GM) food in the global food trade. CAE wanted this interventionist...
Work: Global Direct
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "Global Direct introduces the idea of direct participation in worldwide governance within the tradition of utopian artistic visions.
The artwork is presented as a visionary political program that...
Work: Going to the Heart of the Center of The Garden of Delights
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The installation was made specifically for the neo-Gothic Vleeshal in Middelburg and consisted of a computer graphics video projection onto a large screen at the far end of the room opposite the...
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: I'Mith: Zapping Zone
Artist: Domingues, Diana
Comment: This study presents an evolutionary system which generates images representing myths of human culture as synthetic identities. The myths are described by categorized terms and combined by genetic...
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: Infodesigner
Artist: Schiessl, Simon
Comment: Pixelpark Interactive Environments created the Mercedes-Benz Info Designer for the Auto Salon Paris 2000 and made this special service an interactive, customer-friendly experience. In just a few...
Work: Instruction Drawings
Artist: Fujimura, Noriyuki
Comment: This workshop is a trial to describe how information flows through us.
What we do with mobile phone is just exchange information. It enters through the ear and into the mind and then out through...
Work: Keep Hope Alive Block Party
Artist: Critical Art Ensemble
Comment: Whenever the inequitable distribution of resources crosses into territories once thought impossible, Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) has responded with a public party to highlight the achievements of...
Work: Loophole for All
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This artwork unveiled over 200000 Caymans Islands companies and combined with an aggressive business strategy, it reversed global finance machination for creative subversive agendas. The website...
Work: Mapping Scientific Paradigms
Artist: Paley, Bradford W.
Comment: In its 2006 Gallery, the journal Nature chose an image that spatially lays out different areas of science in a plane. It is a reduction of a large-format (42" x 43") paper print.
The map was...
Work: Mutter or On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematical And Related Systems by Gödel revisited
Artist: Mercado, Marcello
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Work: Narrative Landscape
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: In this installation images are projected onto a large screen lying flat on the floor of the exhibition space. The spectators stand on a surrounding balcony where a joystick enables any one of them...
Work: Net.Art Browser
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Net.Art Browser is a means of conjoining information space with the museum space and hybridizing the interactivity of surfing the Internet with the museum tradition of wall mounted images. While...
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: Open Society Structures - Algorithms Triptych
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This artwork explores the use of algorithm design applied to social structures.
These diagrams propose the idea of planning societal organization like building algorithmic software, which can be...
Work: P2P Gift Credit Card - Gift Finance
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This project proposes an alternative financial model based on the Peer-to-Peer architecture for a more equal sharing of wealth in society. It offers an innovative participatory system using...
Work: Pikapika
Artist: Bahn, Curtis
Comment: Meet Pikapika--a character influenced by anime and manga; Japanese pop animation and comics. Pikapika embodies movements from bunraku (puppet theater), a movement vocabulary Tomie Hahn studied while...
Work: Pneu-Written
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Elements of the MovieMovie (1966) were merged with a performance scenography made by John Lantham.
Work: Post Brands
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This is a triptych of three street art pieces that starred in a poster campaign that took place over several years in a number of European cities. The artworks were printed in black and white on...
Work: Reign of Gold - AR Occupy Wall Street
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The "Reign of Gold" augmented reality artwork surrounds you and your favorite object of protest in a rain of $50 US gold eagle coins. Part of AR Occupy Wall Street, organized by Mark Skwarek.
Work: Relazioni Emergenti
Artist: Plancton Art Studio
Comment: It is an environment of artificial life where the individuals, represented by graphics filaments, are endowed with own intelligence and character. They can interact, exchange information and...
Work: reWrite
Artist: Biggs, Simon
Comment: The focus of an artwork such as reWrite is identity. The work addresses this theme through the use of interactive systems, where the relationship between the viewer and the artwork is explicit and...
Work: RGB VW
Artist: Hegedüs, Agnes
Comment: This work was conceived in relation to a particular location, a disused automobile factory in Karlsruhe. Such a space is clearly significative of industrial culture. But we are now shifting towards a...
Work: Shades of Absence: Outside Inside
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: "Shades of Absence: Outside Inside" places silhouettes of artists who have been threatened with arrest or physical violence into the closed curatorial space of the Giardini in Venice. Whether these...
Work: Shades of Absence: Public Voids
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: This augmented reality installation creates "pavilions of absence" in which images of contemporary artists, whose works in public space have been censored, are reduced to gold silhouettes and placed...
Work: Stimmungsgasometer/ Fühlometer
Artist: Bismarck, Julius von
Comment: Gigantic smiley over Berlin -
an average emotion measuring and displaying stystem
The project Stimmungsgasometer is about a smiley on a huge screen from which one can read the average mood of...
Work: Street Ghosts
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: 2012. Inkjet prints on coated paper, dimensions variable.
Life-sized pictures of people found on Google's Street View were printed and posted without authorization at the same spot where they were...
Work: Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny
Artist: Rinaldo, Ken E.
Comment: As you approach this piece a sensor turns a light on which projects the worms and tree forms onto the walls and ceiling. The tubefex worms which are the stars of this piece demonstrate a form of...
Work: The Big Plot
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This is a romantic-spy story rendered into the genre of Recombinant Fiction. Four characters told a fiction using dialogues shown on several media channels. The cloned identity of a real spy was...
Work: transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus
Artist: Mercado, Marcello
Comment:
Work: transferring, storing, sharing, and hybriding: Text_version
Artist: Mercado, Marcello
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Work: Watchers
Artist: Rinaldo, Ken E.
Comment: "Watchers" are ambient light sculptures concerned with the rhythmic nature of television light and how it is used to seduce and compel the viewer into a kind of hypnotic and passive inaction....
Work: Winning Hearts and Minds
Artist: Critical Art Ensemble
Comment: War zones are as instructive as they are destructive. Since Vietnam, they have beautifully illustrated the contradiction between capitalism and democracy. They teach the lesson that (false) democracy...
