two projects about the camera as a networked object. [...] The installation Blinks is a prism which refracts the ray of time running through a photo into all the moments that were captured simultaneously in different places. Buttons is a camera that actually shoots other’s photos, taking the notion of the networked camera to the extreme.

“The combination of animal and human is traversed here with a kind of commitment and lack of choice. To empower just a few, to give them a retirement they earned, why not take back these parts of ourselves and repay the care.” Kathy High

In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opalka began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. … the artist has pledged his life to its execution: ‘All my work is a single thing, the description from number one to infinity. A single thing, a single life.’

“Un chassé-croisé de lieux, en trois mouvements de caméra qui révèlent le détail de ces lieux et les actions qui s’y déroulent, mais aussi qui démantèle la logique avec laquelle nous les percevons.”

Elsewhere : Anderswo – 2009: “… a site-specific sound installation across two sites. Visitors carry small GPS-equipped computers and wear headphones. Sounds play automatically in response to their movements in the landscape … they move through layer upon layer of responsive sound …”

” … there is a fundamental requirement which the various kinds of concrete poetry meet: concentration upon the physical material from which the poem or text is made. Emotions and ideas are not the physical materials of poetry. … Generally speaking the material of the concrete poem is language …” (Concrete Poetry — A World View. 1968.)

“You just can’t squeeze life into a package. It’s going to ooze out here and there. I think it’s terribly important to be aware of this. Not to be aware of it may lead to an overevaluation of rules and techniques, a tendency to distort and ignore life when it doesn’t fit nicely into your system or theory.”

William Bernbach, “Sometimes I play Things I never heard Myself” in Bierut, Michael. Looking closer 3: classic writings on graphic design. 1999. Page 150

“Literatronic is an artificial intelligence engine that designs a fiction book specific to every reader based on her/his interaction with the system. “

“Alphabetic writing, like all technological systems and apparatuses, operates according to what might be called a corporeal axiomatic: it engages directly and inescapably with the bodies of its users. It makes demands and has corporeal effects. … The alphabet does this by imposing it own mediological needs on the body, from the evident perceptual and cognitive skills required to read and write to the invisible, neurological transformations which it induces in order to function. ”

“A glioma is a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine. It is called a glioma because it arises from glial cells. The most common site of gliomas is the brain.”

Glioma of the left parietal lobe. CT scan with contrast enhancement.

Cage estimates that the game has roughly as much content as five feature films.  “We don’t have ‘game over’ situations,” says Cage. “If you die as one character, you can play through to a different ending with the others. We saw the game as a journey, not like a series of obstacles that you need to go through. The point is for the experience to change when you change your actions.”

Protrude, Flow (2001) (Detail), in collaboration with Minako Takeno

“Wonder is a state of mind somewhere between knowledge and uncertainty.”

Mark Amerika: “The most successful writer-personas now and into the future -? at least those interested in “making a living” as you put it -? will be those who can take on varying flux personas via the act of writing.”

Eclipse 8
Plaster bust and plastic
70×53x17 cm

bor • anj | ‘bôrənj; ‘bär- |
adjective

1. having the qualities of an inelegant iterative step that works
    but will eventually be replaced by something better.
2. of or like an evolutionary step.
3. having both functional and awkward qualities.

‘boranj’ is a study in the spread of ideas; an experiment in cultural evolution and idea (or meme) penetration.
We want to see if and how a word can spread from nothing into ubiquitous acceptance, so we created ‘boranj.’

“Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience.”

“… a documentary about a controversial theory regarding the mechanism that drove the evolution of humans from primates to modern man; challenging the presently accepted evolutionary premise. It also speculates on humanity’s future evolutionary path.”

Cornucopia … is a three dimensional printer for food

3D architectural projection mapping

from here to ear (2007-09) : a flock of zebra finches with electric guitars

“A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces.”

“auto suggestion is a screen based, real-time visualization of the processing of a database of paintings. The work incorporates the full text of Baudelaire’s one surviving notebook “Journaux Intimes”1, 65 hi-resolution scans of paintings that I made during the decade 1989-1999 (at which point I stopped making paintings) …The system takes as its seed Baudelaires prose and runs it through text analysis in turn determining the selection of various areas of color and shape, then recombines them in infinite variations and iterations.”

Tornado miniature created with steel wool.

Nemo Observatorium. 2002. “Styrofoam beads are blown around in a big transparent PVC cylinder by five strong fans. Visitors can take place on the armchair in the middle of the whirlpool…”

2008, six-channel interactive video installation, 30′x20′
computers, six video projectors, three video cameras, custom software, vinyl floor

“In the realm of digital poetics, the technological ability to dismiss identity is a direct articulation of class privilege.”
Aporias: The ‘I’ of New Media Poetics

“The light sculpture Death calls the tune filters all the news items which go around the world minute by minute for those which deal with perdition and misery on our planet. Managed by a microcontroller the pick-up of the remodelled record player “burns” the 60 token long headlines of them into the groomed light disc which turns steadily.”

“The terrain of Mount Fear is generated by data sets relating to the frequency and position of urban crimes.”

“You put a record on, and it’s like all the edges disappear. You’re in a psychological space. You don’t sit there thinking about the music, you’re listening to the music. You’re inside that space that the music’s making for you.” Jim Lambie @ SMFA, Boston

“Free e-books work for me.”

pv3d Compute Spectrum Test 01

“… radial glia, serve as a scaffolding in the embryonic brain. Neurons climb along these polelike cells to reach their final location. Another kind of glia, called microglia, are the brain’s immune system. They clamber through the neurological forest in search of debris from dead or injured cells. A third class of glia, known as Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes, form insulating sleeves around neurons to keep their electric signals from diffusing….”

“Wordnik is billions of words, 300 million example sentences, 4.5 million unique words, and over 177,000 comments, 93,000 tags, 74,000 pronunciations, 21,000 favorites and 22,000 lists created by 27,245 Wordniks.”

“… a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance.” – Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab

“… a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels.”

Strövtåg i tid och rum, 2009
(Strolls through time and space)
Armchair, books, bags, boxes, radio, clock, etc.
Dimensions: 0.55 x 0.85 x 0,6 m.

viva la utopia

“Workspace Unlimited organzation, founded by Thomas Soetens [new media artist] and Kora Van den Bulcke [architect], is a mobile laboratory and creation space dedicated to experimental new media production and research, situated at the point where art, architecture and digital technologies converge to create new contexts of hybrid and augmented reality. “

“ProFORMA, a system designed to enable on-line reconstruction of textured 3D objects rotated by a user’s hand. “

“The Ghana ThinkTank is a worldwide network of think tanks creating strategies to resolve local problems in the “developed” world. The network began with think tanks from Ghana, Cuba and El Salvador, and has since expanded to include Serbia, Mexico and Ethiopia. In our most recent project, we sent problems collected in Wales to think tanks in Ghana, Mexico, Serbia, Iran, and a group of incarcerated girls in the U.S. Prison system.”

“… practice-led research [which] enables practitioners to initiate and then pursue their research through practice….conforms to the broad protocols of all research …”

Papierballfall. 2008. HD video (2’00 loop)

“I invoke Perec’s Judaism only in the way that he did—by scorning religious ritual, and investigating the esoteric aspects, especially the parallels between Oulipian restrictions and the disciplines of kabbalah.”

“The EyeWriter project is on ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies.”

I have dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the hypersensitive skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows me to painlessly draw on my skin with just enough time to photograph the results.

gamer-face film using errol morris’ interrotron

The Hanging Man 2007
silicon, paint & human hair
140.0 x 50.0 cm

8th Century Illuminated Manuscript