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Selected keyword: literature
Work: Anna and Andy
Artist: Manovich, Lev
Comment: ANNA is Anna Karenina.
ANDY is Andy Warhol.
ANNA AND ANDY uses Tolstoys novel as a script which
drives a computer-generated re-creation of Warhol´s "Screen Tests."
Interpretation (Lev...
Work: Book Plumbing
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: This was a mixed-media installation using books in various ways, a material which John Latham was using extensively in his artistic practise at this time. One of the centerpieces was a performance...
Work: Chronotopia
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: Chronotopia is a dance theater re-imagining of the one of the oldest Indian epic poems: the Tamil epic Silappatikaram. Attakkalari's multi-media dance production is an episodical journey, which...
Work: Epiphanies
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: My first net.art piece, Epiphanies is a conceptual Google Hack inspired by James Joyce’s definition of the epiphany. It is considered as one of the very first pieces of “Google Art”, probably the...
Work: Escape
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: Escape
© 2012, Laurent MIGNONNEAU & Christa SOMMERER
developed for The View Contemporary Art Space Swizerland
The installation "Escape" deals with the issue of flight attempt. It was originally...
Work: Golem
Artist: Biggs, Simon
Comment: Digital video installation
2 monitors and 12 channel audio, colour, sound
audio by Hans Peter Kuhn
Golem was a two channel video installation where the two monitors were arranged like the...
Work: Great Wall of China
Artist: Biggs, Simon
Comment: The Great Wall of China is conceived for simultaneous realisation across media, including a Website (1995-96), a CD-ROM with portfolio of prints (1997-99) and an interactive installation (1999). The...
Work: Last Entry: Bombay, 1st of July
Artist: Zapp, Andrea
Comment: "Last Entry: Bombay, 1st of July" is a collaborative documentary about a person, identity and gender unknown - a flaneur in the cultural space of the internet. Inspired by the novel "Orlando",...
Work: Lastwishes
Artist: Katastrofsky, Carlos
Comment: Only through two narrow slots white endless paper slides through abrown box, at least every ten minutes a message appears:"No communication on this channel", date and time. Listening but not talking...
Work: Made In China
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: Made in China: Return of the Soul is a 90 minute dance-theater adaptation and revisioning of Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion, one of the most famous plays in all of classical Chinese literature and...
Work: Othello in an urban space
Artist: Fujimura, Noriyuki
Comment: Othello in an urban space:A trial of doing "Othello ®" game in human scale. Each partisipant plays a role of a piece of the game. Unlike we do the game on board and play by two players, there is no...
Work: Propagation of the Luminous Word
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: This work addresses the notion of a library of the written language, and gives special aesthetic emphasis to the digital (binary) transformation of language to embody the context of the LBC as a...
Work: Red Dice/Des Chiffres
Artist: Seaman, Bill
Comment: Red Dice / Des Chiffré (2000) was commissioned by the Canadian National Gallery and is now in their permanent collection. Seaman again worked with Chris Ziegler on the programming of the work. The...
Work: Romeo & Juliet in Hades
Artist: Tosa, Naoko
Comment: Rome & Juliet in Hades is based on the play by Shakespeare. There are two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, in the story and, therefore, this story supplies a good example of multi-person...
Work: SCHWELLE II
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: Part II is a live dance theater performance with master improviser and former William Forsythe/Ballett Frankfurt dancer Michael Schumacher. During the fifty minute work, the spectators experience a...
Work: TBT - Time Based Text
Artist: Rojo, Jaromil
Comment: "Thinking about gesture in art, people usually refer to choreography. If the topic is related to IT, instead, usability becomes the issue. But, what about gesture in computer art? Does it mean...
Work: The Dante Cupboard
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: This mixed-media sculpture extended over the gallery floor so that the viewers had to walk over it.
Work: the leap
Artist: Stahl, Stenslie
Comment: The Leap carries out a new interpretation of Norwegian national symbols: Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt", Edvard Grieg's music to the play and The Norwegian mountain wilds. In the installation...
Work: Unmakeablelove
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: UNMAKEABLELOVE is a revioning of Beckett’s initial investigation that focuses and makes interactively tangible, a state of confrontation and interpolation between our selves and another society that...
Work: Where where there there where
Artist: Beloff, Zoe
Comment: Enter the mechanics of a mind shot through by the forces of elctromagnetism, language and logical torment. Inspired by the play Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. A collaboration between Zoe Beloff...
