Keyword Index
Selected keyword: Happening
Work: Airground
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Airgrounds were a new genre of air structures comprising soft, responsive architectures the public could interact with. At the Brighton Festival a pyramid-shaped inflatable with a transparent...
Work: Alpevent
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: In the Alpevent white polythene tubing was slowly inflated inside a somewhat confined space. The people there dragged and wove the tubing around their bodies, but expanding plastic gradually pushed...
Work: Black Airground
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A row of three large parachutes were fixed around their perimeter to the floor and continuously inflated with air. A light bulb above each parachute was the only illumination in the installation, and...
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: Centipede
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: An inflatable centipede whose 100 feet were provided for by the people who carried it through the streets. During the Moomba festival it was also floated on the Yarra river in Melbourne.
Work: Curating Second Night
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: Oct. 6 2007: internet users worldwide took part in the Nuit Blanche organized by the Paris local council. Second Night was displayed both on Second Life and at Hôtel d’Albret, Paris.
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Work: Cushion
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: An over-sized inflatable cushion was put into urban locations so that passers by could play with it.
Work: Disillusion of a Fish Pond
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Disillusion of a Fish Pond was one of three performances during the exhibition This is no Thing - This is a Situation of Opportunity at the Kingly Street Gallery in London. In this work a naked woman...
Work: Emergences of Continuous Forms
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Emergences of Continuous Forms was one of a series of performances and installations in this period which explored various methods of extending the cinematic image into the space of the viewers and...
Work: Goldsegen
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Participatory Augmented Reality Public Art Project.
"Goldsegen (Golden Blessings)" - How much do you need to be happy?
This project engages and questions the mechanisms of consumption and their...
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: Kidnap
Artist: Blast Theory
Comment: In this sensational precursor to Big Brother, two volunteers were selected from a few hundred applicants and subsequently kidnapped for a period of 48 hours.
Selected finalists were chosen at...
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: Passion5
Artist: Knowbotic Research
Comment: The intervention of Knowbotic Research includes several, sometimes contradictory levels. On the one hand, it reflects political culture in the early 21st Century, pointing to its limits. mutate to a...
Work: Planetary Network
Artist: Ascott, Roy
Comment: The «daily news» was the theme of this project in which more than 100 artists on three continents participated. The artists worked with computers, video text, slow-scan-TV, and telefax. The live...
Work: Scottish Sorrow
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A city counsil street light repair vehicle was completely covered in tartan printed plastic. It drove nightly through Edinburgh broadcasting traditional bagpipe music and projecting tartan patterns...
Work: The Tele-Actor
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: We are studying network-based systems that allow groups of users to "explore" live remote environments such as a rainforest, biotechnology lab, political rally, or rock concert.
The "Tele-Actor"...
Work: Waterwalk
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Waterwalk was a 3-metre-high tetrahedron shaped balloon made from transparent (and sometimes coloured) plastic. A watertight zip allowed people to enter and be sealed inside. When this...
Work: Waterwalk Tube
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: An inflatable tube made from transparent plastic, 250 metres long and 3 metres in diameter, was placed over the Mach lake connecting its opposite banks. This air-filled floating bridge had airlock...
Work: Wind and Rain
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A room was densely and completely filled with confetti that was being vigorously blown about by big fans. At one point a live elephant was brought into the room and the not realized intention...