Keyword Index
Selected keyword: history of technology
Work: Extruder
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: The automobile is a fascinating machine. Since its inception the automobile has driven us faster and faster into the future. Carving out the modern world, it has done brilliantly, reproducing itself...
Work: Genetic Seed Bank
Artist: Anker, Suzanne
Comment: Animation for artist Suzanne Anker. Video loop created from still image for video installation.
Work: Invisible Cantilever
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: This project considers the distance between the viewer and what is being viewed. How does technology alter our perceptions of distance, scale, and structure? Technologies for viewing continue to...
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: Revolution
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: In this interactive laser-disc-based work the viewer has to push a protruding steel bar to rotate a column-mounted monitor which in turn animates the images on its screen. A friction plate forces the...
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: 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: Voyage
Artist: Lin, Hsin Hsin
Comment: It takes at least ten years for an idea to go from first appearance in the laboratoy through translation into the consumer world. Voyage is an image signifying the acceleration of this ten year...
Work: ZKM Karlsruhe / YOUbiläumsbrowser
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The YOUbiläums Browser (kots.nu/mzedck). The history of the ZKM between 1997 and 2007 becomes a space pervading interface: by means of the Linear Navigator designed by Jeffrey Shaw in 1999, the...