Blinking Foxtail is a bio-technological and interactive installation connecting LEDs to plants. Sound is introduced as a variable element, originating from either people or the environment, affecting the nature of the foxtails. The project aims to explore the ambiguities and continuities between nature and technology: where does one end and the other begin?
By Su Lee [...]
Love Machine is a project about the way that we live through technology. To be human is to interact with others, this interaction is always technical. The technical process of falling in love is the most intense interaction possible; the most natural thing in the world. Love machine is a new system that can asses [...]
Somewhere between Neverland and media bombardments, rooted in a legendary past and struggling for an uncertain future, there is a country that is not actually a country: the Basque Country. And here’s a website that is not just a website. It’s a runway, an escape from political fictions to the non-geographical
firmament of individuals and their [...]
FLOSS methodologies and the media theory of Bertolt Brecht seek‑ to interrogate how means of production can be altered towards a dialectic of the author as a producer. A short organum for software, this project deploys the performance of a set of so called ‘learning-plays’ by Brecht, acted by humans and ELIZA, an artefact of [...]
The project seeks to make conceivable ways in which the Genetic Algorithm, as conceptual machine, is both transforming and transformative, permeates different choices and life-styles or generates new tensions. It is shaped by ongoing practices, materialities or professional commitments. The algorithm runs on data fetched from `live` NHS databases and its formalisation is being understood [...]
FreeMob started by collecting old computers and mobile phones. It then transformed into a social telephony project, which enables people to send many sms texts for the price of one. FreeMob went to plug itself into the media ecologies of sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco, at their last point of transit before reaching the Mediterranean coast. [...]
My project documents the subjectivities lost in the digitalization of information. It examines the difficulties of retaining and categorizing the human subjectivities in the transition from experience to data. My project attempts to make this point through the comparison between a personally kept notebook and one which I HAve composed using computer logs, bank statements, [...]
A musical instrument produces sound; a computer musical instrument produces first data and then sound. The reinvention of musical instruments in the computer era is still controlled by a binary and Boolean logic. The way data is produced by tangible electronic instruments is a faultless stream of bits. Adding the nuances of touch pressure and [...]
You can redefine your image and your relationship with it by negotiating and playing around your physical characteristics. Your physical parts are elements of identification commanded by a digital mechanism. The physical and mental perceptions of your ego is re-discovered by a digital system that re-enacts the psychological conditions of a subject via new body [...]
Investigate analogue machines through interactive mechanisms; probe into the relations between digital and analogue; connect technical machines with literature through visualisation. Writing with machines is a sequence of material signs, a set of algorithms. With electronic literacy we become constituted by our technologies. Literature becomes a ‘world of the machine’, and machines themselves become [...]