Liquid Architectures

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Marcos Novak defines liquid architectures: “”What is liquid architecture? A liquid architecture is an architecture whose form is contingent on the interests of the beholder; it is an architecture that opens to welcome […]

Systems Burn-Off X Residual Software

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Les Levine’s Systems Burn-Off X Residual Software was also intended to be fully interactive: The original installation at the Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago was comprised of 1000 copies of each of […]

Grand Theft Avatar

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Watch a film clip of Grand Theft Avatar here : http://www.secondfront.org/Performances/Grand_Theft_Avatar.html Second Front robs the Linden Treasury acting as the “currency liberation army.” In a live performance at the San Francisco Art Institute […]

Last Riot 2 : The Bridge

Enthusiastically received at the 2012 Venice Biennale (Russian Pavilion), Last Riot 2 presents the viewer with a world of fantasy landscape mutated and frozen in time. Inspired by the work of Baroque masters such as Caravaggio, AES+F explore contemporary heroism in an era when everything, including war, is sanitized. The heroes of the “Last Riot” […]

TechnoSphere

According to artist Jane Prophet, TechnoSphere is an “evolution simulator that enabled people to create their own creatures and communicate with them as they grow, evolve and die in a virtual three-dimensional environment.” In the screen-grab from the website, users first choose to make an Herbivore or Carnivore, then are presented with a choice of […]

n-Cha(n)t

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!   The surface inspiration for n-Cha(n)t was a strong and somewhat inexplicable desire to hear a community of computers speaking together: chattering amongst themselves, musing, intoning chants… It is probably significant that […]

Colloquy of Mobiles

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!   The English cyberneticist Gordon Pask conceived the Colloquy of Mobiles for the 1968 exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity held at the ICA in London. It was a reactive, educable, computer-based system composed of five […]

Increasing the Latent Period in a System of Remote Destructability

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Starting with Increasing the Latent Period in a System of Remote Destructability show in Japan, Survival Research Labs is among the first civilians to develop and operate a multi-user, teleoperated firing system using […]

Rhythm 0

Marina Abramović is best known for her performance pieces, in which she tries to explore what is possible for an artist to do in the name of art.  Her best known piece was the recent “The Artist Is Present,” in which she sat motionless for 736.5 hours over the course of three months, inviting visitors […]

Third Hand

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Appearance A mechanical human-like hand that is attached to my right arm as an additional hand. It is made to the dimensions of my real right hand.Cosmetic Cover Cast in latex from my right […]

Graphic Method Bicycle

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!       The Graphic Method Bicycle is a performance with the features of an installation. A nude man sitting on a bicycle is pulled forwards extremely slowly by a motorized winch and steel cable […]

Hands Writing: One Word with Three Hands Simultaneously

The performative body and the cyborgian body are continuous in Stelarc’s oeuvre and both are inextricable from the mediation of human intelligence and volition. In some of his performances, such as Hands Writing: One Word with Three Hands Simultaneously (1982), the artist retains full control of robotic devices. By contrast, in Ping Body (first performed […]

Life Squared

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Watch a video on this piece at : http://lib.stanford.edu/women-art-revolution/life-squared Life Squared (L2) was a project carried out under the auspices of the Stanford Humanities Laboratory, with Lynn Hershman Leeson. It began as part […]

CyberRoberta

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! CyberRoberta was conceived simultaneously with “Tillie, the Telerobotic Doll”. When they are exhibited together, each is programmed to pirate the others’ information, blurring their identities. “Tillie, The Telerobotic Doll” and “CyberRoberta” are […]

Micro Macro Music Massage

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!     “My personal favorite artistic offering to public experience is the reinsertion of fun for fun’s sake into the social. I know that sounds simple and naïve. It is. Vibrating chairs are titillating. The […]

Experiments in Galvanism

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!         Experiments in Galvanism is the culmination of studio and gallery experiments in which a miniature computer is implanted into the dead body of a frog specimen. On the one hand, it […]

Opera Sextronique

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!     Yalkut’s film is the only record of Nam June Paik’s legendary 1967 performance Opera Sextronique in New York, which was interrupted by the arrest of cellist Charlotte Moorman, who was performing topless. The […]

Life: A User’s Manual

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! From : http://www.ubermatic.org/life/ ‘Life: a user’s manual’ is a series of public performances and online mappings that examine the hidden stories captured by private wireless CCTV streams and how they intersect with […]

Security by Julia

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! From : http://hosting.zkm.de/ctrlspace/e/texts/46?print-friendly=true Part of the larger discussion of protection and threat as represented by contemporary cultural practices, this work is intended as a reflection and response to questions of psychological surveillance, […]

http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Jodi, or jodi.org, is a collective of two internet artists: Joan Heemskerk (born 1968 in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (born 1965 in Brussels, Belgium). Their background is in photography and video […]

The Real Costs

The Real Costs consists of an open-source Firefox web browser plug-in that inserts CO2 emissions data into airplane travel e-commerce websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, and so on. Like the nutritional information labeling included on food packaging, this plug-in provides emissions information that is otherwise excluded from travel websites.[1] Instead of a search for travel returning the cost in dollars, The Real Costs informs travellers of the cost of their journey in carbon emisssions and the number of tree-years required to offset it, along with comparative carbon footprint information for other forms of travel. Another graph shows per-capita carbon output by country, with the US off the chart.

Rhine Water Purification Plant

Haacke’s Rhinewater Purification Plant stands as the historical precedent for artists like Aviva Rahmani, Natalie Jeremijenko, Tiffany Holmes, and Buster Simpson, whose art concerns water quality. By displaying the Krefeld Sewage Plant’s murky discharge, officially treated enough to return to the Rhine River, Haacke brought attention to the plant’s role in degrading the river. […]

They Rule

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!   They Rule by Josh On         They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class. It takes as its focus the boards of some […]

String Game: Improvisations for Inter-City Video

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! String Game: Improvisations for Inter-City Video by Vera Frenkel   Four monitors are arranged as the extremities of an X. On the front two monitors, players can be  seen during enactment’ on […]

Utopia: Q&A

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!     1971 Utopia: Q&A, public spaces linked by telex in New York, Ahmedabad, India, Tokyo, and Stockholm, where people could ask people in other countries questions about the future.  

Telematic Vision

Telematic Vision Artistic Statement by Paul Sermon from http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/paulsermon/vision/ First there was the bed, then came the sofa. The beginnings of this work started with the installation “Telematic Dreaming” produced in June 1992 for the “koti” exhibition in Kajaani, Finland. forwarding the development into the installation “Telematic Vision”. In many ways the sofa and the bed […]

Terminal Art

    TI 700 portable computer terminal manufactured by Texas Instruments in the 1970s and 1980s. Silent 700s printed with a 5 x 7 dot-matrix heating element onto a roll of heat-sensitive paper. Some models, like this one were equipped with an integrated acoustic coupler and modem that could receive data. Ascott, Adrian, Bartlett and […]

The World in 24 Hours

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! The World in 24 Hours by Robert Adrian See a video on Art and Electronic Media of this work : http://www.artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/slow-scantv-sstv A world-wide 24 hour telecommunications project conceived by Robert Adrian for Ars Electronica’82, […]

Elektrostatic Interference

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!   Elektrostatic Interference by Barry Schwartz and Arterial Group The following is an excerpt from http://www.realtimearts.net/article/45/5962 The huge, wide walls of the Brisbane Powerhouse Turbine Hall wrap around us, flooded with images moving slowly, […]

Contact: A Cybernetic Sculpture

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Contact: A Cybernetic Sculpture by Les Levine LES LEVINE produced two installations, Iris (1968) and Contact: A Cybernetic Sculpture (1969), which were important predecessors to Wipe Cycle, although less complex. In Iris, […]

Iris

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!   Iris by Les Levine       Also in 1968, Levine produced his first “television sculpture”, Iris. Once again, Levine had the viewer confronting himself via television. In this case, all the hardware for the […]

Curiosity Cabinet at the End of the Millennium

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Curiosity Cabinet at the End of the Millennium by Catherine Richards   Curiosity Cabinet at the End of the Millenium 1995 Inside the copper cabinet the spectator is a rare collectable, […]

Poème Électronique

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!   Poème Électronique by Le Corbusier, Ianis Xenakis ,Edgard Varèse           Poème électronique is the first, electronic-spatial environment to combine architecture, film, light and music to a total experience made to […]

Hypertransformations

This article is a STUB please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!   Hypertransformations by Vera Molnar Hypertransformations 1975/76 computer graphic open series, 4 variations, all sole copies print: each +/- 20 x 20 cm artist′s own collection The numbers “75.179.10.55.39 “ […]

Ajna Spine

This is a STUB article please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Ajna Spine 222 Michael Rees   Michael is a an artist who has harnessed the power of digital tools to create a wide range of sculptures, installations, animations and interactive pieces. Michael has […]

Skull

This is a STUB article please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!   Skull   Robert Lazzarini                   They look like the real thing – a violin, a hammer, a telephone, a chair, a human skull. But they’re deformed in seemingly […]

Rereentry

This is a STUB article please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks! Rereentry Michael Joaquin Grey   Reentry revisualizes and dematerializes “The Powers of Ten”, a reversal of childbirth, and the reentry of the first US astronaut back to earth. This computational film creates […]

Permutations

This is a STUB article please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.  Thanks!   Permutations       Computers in the 1960s were too slow to generate complex images in real time, however, so Whitney instead used the computer to output frames of animation to film. In animations like Permutations […]

Dawn Burn

  Lucier first emerged as a video artist in the early 1970s and is best known for her large-scale sculptural installations. With Dawn Burn she investigates light and landscape as well as the intersection of technology and nature. Lucier’s seven channels of landscape video imagery record seven consecutive sunrises over the East River in New […]