Keyword Index
Selected keyword: uncanny
Work: A Sense of Place
Artist: Legrady, George
Comment: An out-of-focus "still-life" image of a window display is projected on a full screen gallery wall. As the audience moves in the gallery space, items from the inventory of objects in the image come...
Work: Alsos*
Artist: Scenocosme, Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt -
Comment: Alsos*
Sound and interactive installation
Alsos* is an interactive clearing. The spectator walks into a space plunged into darkness with a flash light in his hand. Mystic forest music immerses him...
Work: America`s Finest
Artist: Hershman Leeson, Lynn
Comment: In 1830, both the camera and the colt revolver were invented. more than a half century later, in 1888 Etienne Jules Maray perfected a gun that substituted film for bullets. There has long been a...
Work: Casual Workers, Hallucinations and Approriate Ghosts
Artist: Dove, Toni
Comment: a video installation, was commissioned for the lobby of a movie theater in Time Square by Creative Time, Inc. and the 42nd St. Development Corp. for The 42nd Street Art Project. The piece tracks a...
Work: Displacements
Artist: Naimark, Michael
Comment: Displacements is an immersive film installation. An archetypal Americana living room was installed in an exhibition space. Then two performers were filmed in the space using a 16mm motion picture...
Work: Gravity and Grace
Artist: Matsumoto, Yasuaki
Comment: in collaboration with Masayuki Towata. The observer is confronted with the dark surface of a half-mirrored glass on which blinking red LED lights and the observer’s own image is reflected. Within a...
Work: In-Viscera
Artist: Domingues, Diana
Comment: The installation proposes some poetic moments inside body landscapes using images of a scrutinezed body by technological medical devices. An internal camera circuit travel generates...
Work: M2
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: Overall, the event is cyclical; however, the groups spend variable amounts of time going through the chambers. The immersion room is the only area of the environment where visitors are allotted a...
Work: Metamorphy
Artist: Scenocosme, Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt -
Comment: Métamorphy is an interactive artwork . Its offers immersive and projections of body by mixing real and imaginary reflects. Métamorphy refers to metamorphosis notion and the prefix « méta » means...
Work: Paranoid Mirror
Artist: Hershman Leeson, Lynn
Comment: This piece was inspired by the paintings of Van Eyk and in particular the "Marriage of Arnofini". This piece uses reflection as a means of portraiture and reflected self portraiture. Though obscured...
Work: Rara Avis
Artist: Kac, Eduardo
Comment: The work Rara Avis (1996) of Eduardo Kac consists of a large cage, in which thirty real birds (zebra finches) and a telerobot, which looks like a rare bird, take place. In the macaws eyes are...
Work: Sally or the Bubble Burst
Artist: Dove, Toni
Comment: Sally or The Bubble Burst is an interactive DVD-ROM that uses speech recognition and synthesis to allow viewers to converse with famed 1930ís performer Sally Rand [played by Helen Pickett]. In three...
Work: Sauna01-02
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: Sauna_01 #1, realized at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2000, consists of a 10 x 14' enclosed room within which is positioned a 4 x 8' tank-a half cylinder resembling what Sponge termed...
Work: Stupid Robot
Artist: Penny, Simon
Comment: Designed to annoy, reminiscent of a legless beggar, Stupid Robot shakes a can of metal parts noisily when approached.
Work: The Golden Seed
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The Golden Seed is a single-channel video, a moving votive image that celebrates the cycles of fertility: birth, death, regeneration. In its installation form: A dark passage leads into the...
Work: The Telepresence Garment
Artist: Kac, Eduardo
Comment: I first conceived the Telepresence Garment in 1995 to investigate the notion of the mediascape as an expanded cloth; i.e., to consider wireless networking as a new fabric that envelops the body. The...
Work: World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body
Artist: Mikami, Seiko
Comment: In an echoless room a computer and various measuring devices are used to amplify the sound of a body"s internal organs. In the silence, the visitor first hears the sounds inside his or her body, and...