Keyword Index
Selected keyword: manipulation
Work: Acoustic Chase
Artist: Schiessl, Simon
Comment: This immersive audio environment explores how humans react to commands imposed by a machine generating its acoustic stimuli on the basis of tracked body movement. In this environment, different...
Work: Amazon Noir - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "In this project Amazon.com's website was the vulnerable target. We eluded their copyright protections with a sophisticated hack of the "Search Inside" service. We stole complete digital volumes of...
Work: Anti-NATO Day - Participatory Cyber Attacks - STOPtheNATO.org
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This project unfolded around an anti-NATO militarism web portal that was founded in August 2001 and ran until late 2006. The website gained international popularity over the years through covering...
Work: artTrap
Artist: Benayoun, Maurice
Comment: In the main gallery of a contemporary art museum.
A big one...
A cubic room de 4 x 4 x 3m.No ceiling.
The top of the box is open.
This room is surrounded by 4 walls. In the middle of each...
Work: Carry On
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: Paranoia is the state of the world. Propelled by our media, we have re-assumed our place in the jungle, afraid of the invisible predator all around us. Constantly watching and watched, what is it...
Work: Check Check Reality
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This project focused on airport security regulations, seeing them as a worst-case scenario of playing on people's fears. It looked at how security is installed as a focal point in our daily lives....
Work: CHRONOPOLIS
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: Chronopolis consists of a 10 x 10 meter square floor-projected interface that visitors walk over. The computer generated interface displays days, hours, minutes and seconds grids over which four...
Work: Corpocinema
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Corpocinema ('corporeal cinema') was an expanded cinema environment presented in a series of open-air performances in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in 1967. The basic structure was a large...
Work: Digital Imaging
Artist: Rinaldo, Ken E.
Comment: Digital Imaging by Ken Rinaldo
My digital imaging works are abstract constructions that consist of scans of original items composited in Photoshop and textures and line brought in with Adobe...
Work: Digital Landfill
Artist: Napier, Mark
Comment: An neverending archive of digital trash. The artist has created an interface, in which the User can copy files from his computer or foreign websites - he can trash them. In a few seconds the files...
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: Free Range Grain
Artist: Critical Art Ensemble
Comment: Free Range Grain was a live, performative action that used basic molecular biology techniques to test for genetically modified (GM) food in the global food trade. CAE wanted this interventionist...
Work: GENMA
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: GENMA is a machine, that enables us to manipulate 'Nature'.
Nature exemplary is represented as artificial nature of a micro scale: abstract amoeboid artificial three-dimensional forms...
Work: Golden Calf
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: This work is constituted by a white pedestal on which there stands an LCD colour monitor connected to computing machinery by a cable running through the pedestal. The viewer of this work picks up and...
Work: Google Adwords Happenings
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: The Google Adwords Happening: how a global happening on Google unveiled the Generalized Semantic Capitalism.
“At the beginning of April, a debate took place on rhizome.org mailing list, about how...
Work: Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI) - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "In this project we wanted to buy Google via its own money. We generated revenues by serving Google text advertisements on a network of hidden websites clicked by bots. With this money we...
Work: Human Browser
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: A human being embodies
the World Wide Web
Human Browser is a series of Wi-Fi performances based on a Google Hack, where the usual technological interface is replaced with the oldest interface we...
Work: Jules Verne
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A virtual projection installation created the illusion of looking through the theatre entrance doors at fictional scenes situated in the real space outside the theatre. The installation used the same...
Work: Kriegsspiel
Artist: Galloway, Alexander R.
Comment: videogame based on Guy Debord's board game with the same title. in collaboration with the RSG.
Work: Loophole for All
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This artwork unveiled over 200000 Caymans Islands companies and combined with an aggressive business strategy, it reversed global finance machination for creative subversive agendas. The website...
Work: Nature?
Artist: Menezes, Marta de
Comment: "In “Nature?” I have created live butterflies where their wing patterns were modified for artistic purposes. Such changes were achieved by interfering with the normal development of the wing,...
Work: Non-weddings
Artist: Bruno, Christophe
Comment: Non-weddings was inspired by a drawing by Jacques Lacan in “L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient”, as I realized that the Internet search engines had some similarities with this presentation...
Work: Perceptive Dislocations
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: "Perceptive Dislocations" was a performative event at the Goethe-Institute Island in Second Life.
Cyberspace: The Final Frontier. Since 1994 with the advent of the World Wide Web, online virtual 3D...
Work: Physiognomic Scrutinizer
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The first version of the Physiognomic Scrutinizer was developed and presented under the title "Match & Smile" for the Touch Me Festival 2008 (Feel Better) in Zagreb. The design is based on principles...
Work: Predicatable Lab
Artist: Melanitis, Yiannis
Comment: " Predictable Lab " has been developed as a response to the work "The Solution Between Two Possibilities - Predictor " by Sophia Kosmaoglou. The "Predictable Lab" performance refers to the anulment...
Work: Projections
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A series of photographic prints on linen: a table cloth showing the image of a dinner serving , a window curtain showing the image of a venetian blind, a sheet hanging on a line showing the image of...
Work: Self-Portrait with Eiffel Tower
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Circular-patterned digitizing of the viewers' movements was conjoined with the static recording of a large souvenir reproduction of the Eiffel Tower. The work uses the same image processing...
Work: Staircase
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A sequence of photographs was taken of people using the central staircase in the Stedelijk Museum. This scene was then virtually re-constructed by projecting these images full-scale onto two...
Work: Stimmungsgasometer/ Fühlometer
Artist: Bismarck, Julius von
Comment: Gigantic smiley over Berlin -
an average emotion measuring and displaying stystem
The project Stimmungsgasometer is about a smiley on a huge screen from which one can read the average mood of...
Work: Televents
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Numerous disillusionary manipulations of domestic TV sets were made for a television broadcast by the V.P.R.O. For instance, the TV screen was replaced with a white painted black balloon on which...
Work: The Shredder
Artist: Napier, Mark
Comment: Shred the Web! An Alternative web browser that turns web pages into digital confetti.
At a time when the web browser struggled against print metaphors like magazine and newspapter to find it's own...
