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Points of View II - Babel
Artist StatementPoints of View II - Babel addressed issues relating to the Falklands War. It implemented functional and iconographic structures that were similar to Points of View I. Egyptian hieroglyphs were used to articulate both a visual and…
Points of View I
Artist StatementPoints of View was a 'theatre of signs' with both stage and protagonists being provided by a three-dimensional computer graphics simulation that was video projected onto a large screen in front of a seated audience...The…
Anamorphoses of Memory
Artist StatementFor the exhibition Kunst Over de Vloer artists were invited to create works in the rooms of a private apartment building. Anamorphoses of Memory was located in a sparse and untidy student's bedroom. A monitor was placed on a mattress…
Alice's Room
Artist StatementIn this installation at the International Art & Science Exhibition a large, back projected high-resolution monitor was mounted on a motorised turntable. An infra-red joystick controlled the 360-degree rotation of this screen and…
Architext
Artist StatementLarge LED alphanumeric units are mounted in a 13 x 9 grid on the stage tower of this theatre. Like a conventional news sign textual information is scrolled through these elements, but because the alphanumeric units are spaced far…
Televirtual Chit Chat
Artist StatementDuring Imagina '93 computer graphics installations in Monte Carlo and in Karlsruhe were connected by modem through a conventional telephone line. Facing large video screens, the two distant players each shared the same virtual image…
The Narrative Landscape
Artist StatementIn this installation images are projected onto a large screen lying flat on the floor of the exhibition space. The spectators stand on a surrounding balcony where a joystick enables any one of them to interactively operate the work by…
Place - Ruhr
Artist StatementIn this installation a rotating platform allows the viewer to interactively rotate a projected image within a large circular projection screen and explore a three dimensional virtual environment constituted by an emblematic…
ConFIGURING the CAVE
Artist StatementConFIGURING the CAVE is a computer based interactive video installation that assumes a set of technical and pictorial procedures to identify various paradigmatic conjunctions of body and space. The work utilises the CAVE technology…
Place - a User's Manual
This work extends the tradition of panorama painting, photography and cinematography in the vector of simulation and virtual reality. A rotating platform with three video projectors allows the viewer to interactively rotate his window of view around…
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…
Legible City
Artist StatementIn The Legible City the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that is constituted by computer-generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the…
The Net.Art Browser
Artist StatementThe Net.Art Browser is a means of conjoining information space with the museum space and hybridizing the interactivity of surfing the Internet with the museum tradition of wall mounted images. While painting, cinema and TV construe…
Engine of Engines
The Engine of Engines is a generative sound and video installation that responds in real-time to network traffic in the local environment. In the Hong Kong debut (see video), sixteen self-contained nodes, each comprised of a screen, processing-unit,…
Architecture of Association
The Architecture of Association is a large-scale, generative artwork that draws associative links between media elements to form an evolving visual collage. A distributed flow of image, video and poetic text is "intelligently" distributed over a…
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…
Exchange Fields
Artist StatementExchange Fields (2000), commissioned by the Vision Ruhr Exhibition in Dortmund Germany, incorporates the recorded dance and choreography of Regina van Berkel. The programmer Gideon May also became involved in this project. The central…
Red Dice / Des Chiffr
Red Dice / Des Chiffre (2000) was commissioned by the Canadian National Gallery and is now in their permanent collection. Seaman again worked with Chris Ziegler on the programming of the work. The work presents a text by the Poet Stephane Mallarme -…
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…
Communication<->Space
Artist StatementThe work expands Seaman's set of exhibitions related to the Thoughtbody Environment and Neosentience [ongoing collaboration with Otto Rossler] and extends Yeong-woong Cheong's work in terms of computer graphics/video generative…
Passage Sets/One Pull Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue (Wall of Light Version)
Artist StatementPassage Sets is a generative visual poem. It includes an interactive poem generator. The users of the system can position themselves in front of the screen and select words and/or phrases from four lists that become visual as they…
The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers
33 brief image and musical scenes are each based on a sentence of ten words. These exquisite image and sound compositions are mechanically combined, but internally organized by a poetic logic. The fragmentary aspect of splinter as well as the…
Don't Leave Me Baby
Artist StatementDon't Leave Me, Baby is a digital poem created out of live social media data. Messages of emotional anguish and insecurity are sourced in real time from Twitter and matched with expressions of consolation and reassurance. Tears are…