Keyword Index
Selected keyword: popular culture
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: Another Day in Paradise
Artist: Vesna, Victoria
Comment: The installation "Another Day in Paradise" was composed of three preserved trees: surveillance, video and touchscreen trees. The equipment not contained in the trees themselves was hidden from view...
Work: Eddie Murphy and Mae West: Return to Bushwick
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Both Eddie Murphy and Mae West were born in Bushwick and went on to nation wide fame as actors. This artwork brings the two actors back to their ‘hood. The format is an hommage to Magritte’s...
Work: Fortune 500 Cookies
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Fortune 500 Cookies are gold wafers of silicon that have been discovered in San Jose and are said to be propagating from Silicon Valley to around the world. Their peculiar appearance, unusual for...
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: Off-Sense
Artist: Fujihata, Masaki
Comment: Off-Sense is an extended version of Nuzzle Afar.
Both challenges to design a cyberspace as a meeting place. It stands completely opposite position to the famous network game "DOOM". Video image...
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: Pixelwelle
Artist: Schiessl, Simon
Comment: The Pixel Wave welcomes visitors in the Pixelpark Berlin lobby. The peppier somebody walks along the four-meter-long virtual wave, the more it undulates each pixel. If the viewer pauses in front of...
Work: Tele-Twister
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: Have fun while learning about gravity, anatomy, ergonomics, and social dynamics! The party game Twister, introduced in 1966, was the first board game played with human bodies.
This version,...
Work: The Distorted Barbie
Artist: Napier, Mark
Comment: "The distorted Barbie" is a web-art installation that displayed digitally altered images of Barbie dolls in order to comment on Barbie as a cultural/commercial symbol and pop-icon. He published his...
Work: Titrisme
Artist: Benayoun, Maurice
Comment: 3 versions of the project from the Dump: Titlism
"Can we imagine a work wandering like a lost soul in search of a meaning, simply because it had become impossible to give it a permanent title?...
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,...