Keyword Index
Selected keyword: democracy
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: Geometries of Power
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: "Geometries of Power" is a multi-user online 3D world that uses
the interactive characteristics of space, geometry and sound
to question concepts of power and control.
Beginning with the blank...
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: 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: Persecuting US
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: One million Americans are sorted by political affiliation and exposed to public persecution in the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election. The data was harvested from Twitter.com and...
Work: ReVisioning the Virtual Wall
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The digital collages (3 shown here by Tamiko Thiel, and 3 others by Teresa Reuter/Sabe Wunsch) show scenographies of the Berlin Wall that are conceived as associative spaces of memories - by mixing...
Work: Satellite Contact
Artist: Orlow, Uriel
Comment: Satellite Contact is a two-screen video portrait of the British National Archives (formerly known as the Public Records Office). Satellite Contact never touches the ground: it takes the viewer on an...
Work: Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: “Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies"
Addresses artists who have been censored by - or due to threats by - high members of the U.S. government. Premiered in 2013 at "Manifest:AR," curator Joseph...
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: 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: 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...