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The Use
This work is a poetic tour de force in which Mann shows how much information can be lost when language is written down. Intonation, cadence, volume, emphasis, pause, breathing, and so much nonverbal information infuses the recorded vocal performances…
The Use: Now you are talking
Chris Mann's poetry is complicated to the point of breathlessness. When engaging with a Mann poem for the first time it is as if one has suddenly become dyslexic: the words are there, but their construction resists meaning. The complex facade of a…
The Virtual Museum
An exact reproduction of the exhibition space is shown on a large monitor placed on a circular, motorized platform. Sitting in front of the screen in an armchair, visitors can navigate their way through four further virtual spaces by using the weight…
The Watch Detail
The first major interactive work was entitled The Watch Detail (1990). Video images, sound and text that addressed the subject of time were explored interactively. This work employed Macintosh Hypercard media, that was used to control an interactive…
The World Generator/The Engine of Desire
Artist StatementThe World Generator promotes a form of active looking/listening/interacting/understanding. Through interaction with this virtual world generator, text potentially qualifies differing emotive aspects of the current computer-based…
This is how you will die
Artist StatementA slot machine for predicting death. Stripped down code of a slot game inserted with 15 five-line death fictions, poeticals.Source of Artist Statement
Time the Magician
Time, the magician is a collaboration by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean written in the real-time algorithmic image-processing program Jitter. The piece begins with a poem, written by Hazel, on the subject of time: influential on the writing of the poem…
Time's daughter
Time's daughter is a hypertext poetic work that explores the themes of desire, expectation and contemplation. The user begins at a simple home page with a choice of seven words( where, view, belly, time, eon, face, hands ) through which the user can…
Trace
A playful mixed media interactive installation that showcased biometric technologies, such as iris, palm and voice scanners, image capture and cumulative databases to engage visitors with everyday biometric technologies and the practices of biometric…
Tranquility Falls
Tranquility Falls, is a floor-to-ceiling projection of what appears to be a synthetic waterfall and a cascade of phrases that describes various features of self-help culture. The words start slowly, earnestly and meditatively. Accelerating to an…
Transitional Forms; new life from Iconica
Artist StatementIconica is an artificial world made of language, populated by lifeforms whose bodies are made of media encoded with different systems of representation. The artificial life model that generates the appearance and behaviour of this…
Travels Towards
A hypertext poem assembled of fragments of poetry, plays and other textual fragments of Rimbaud, Patrick White, Shakespeare, Virginia Wolff and original text by Caney. The work integrates visual elements in its interaction, such as animated, linked…
Tree of Fortune
Unbearable Lightness (tree of fortune) is a collaboration between Keith Armstrong and Linda Carroli recontextualising the Christmas tree. On the South Bank Cultural Forecourt, a fig tree is decorated with small glowing baubles which on closer…
Trope
Artist StatementTrope creatively intervenes in the ways that readers engage with literary texts and aims to expand writing networks and to further develop the virtual literary community. Trope features short fiction and poetry in selected…
Tunnel
'Tunnel' is an html site,using javascript, java applets and animated gifs and images that explored cybersexuality which in the early 1990s was an emerging area in both cyberculture and cyberart. It explored the intersection of female sex and…
Twitterwurking
Artist Statement_Twitterwurking_ comprised of sequential "tweets" posted via a microblogging platform called Twitter. The work itself was written in my mezangelle language - a type of merging of programming languages/code with poetic elements. The…
Uncontrollable semantics
Artist StatementWhile net-art becomes increasingly more complex, more database and programming centered, this project shoots for simplicity. Utilizing the basic mouse-follower, Uncontrollable Semantics pulls together over fifty dramatically different…
Under my Skin
Eugenia Raskopoulos’ latest installation straddles dark domestic and political territory. The messages range from blunt to subtle. A video camera looks through a car windscreen across which the word “refugees” is written against a clear blue…
Urban Codemakers: rezone the city through play
Artist StatementThe Urban Codemakers operated in Guildford Lane between August 2010 and February 2011. Their urban renewal project sought to rezone the city through play. It consists of three guilds, street signage, 100+ blog posts, four blogs, a…
User Unfriendly Interface
Artist StatementUser Unfriendly Interface, CD ROM/Installation on themes of conspiracy theories, male vs female concept of space, dating services, mens issues and personality testing.Source of Artist Statement
Vholoce: Weather Visualizer
Artist StatementReal-time weather rss feeds drive a series of visualizations. Artistically translates numbers into strange creatures.Source of Artist Statement