Ultra-Nature

by Miguel Chevalier (Mexico, 2008)

 

A virtual garden whose plant life is composed of six varieties of colorful digital plants. Each one of them evolves according to its “genetic” characteristics and by its interaction with the public who, by means of sensors, cause the flowers to cross-pollinate each other, giving rise to new and unexpected blossoms.

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Miguel Chevalier is known as one of the pioneers of digital art. Born in Mexico and residing in France, he graduated from the National Superior School of Fine Arts, in Paris, in the early 1980s. In 1994, he participated as a resident artist at Villa Kujoyama, in Kyoto, Japan.

Cheap Imitation

 

by David Rokeby (2002)

Cheap Imitation

An installation with several facets cut from Nude Descending a Staircase, by Marcel Duchamp, which emerge according to the visitor’s movements.

David Rokeby

A Canadian artist, who has created interactive installations since 1982.

La Funambule Virtuelle

by Marie-Hélène Tramus and Michel Bret (2000)

A virtual character balances itself on a tightrope, and reacts to the movements of the human observer. At the same time it tries to reproduce the posture of the participant, the character seeks balance on the virtual tightrope.

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Marie-Hélène Tramus

She is a phD in aesthetics and art sciences from the University of Paris 8.

Michel Bret

Professor of the chair of Arts and Technologies of Image at the University of Paris 8.

Text Rain

by Camille Utterback (1999)

The projection of the participants’ bodies is combined with the animation of a rain of letters, which respond to the participants’ body movements. If participants accumulate letters, they can form a word or a phrase.

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Camille Utterback

A pioneer in the field of interactive installations, she has held exhibitions in the United States, Tokyo, Austria among other countries.

Romy Achituv

An Israeli artist, who lives and works in New York.

The Bacterial Orchestra

by Martin Lübcke and Olle Cornéer (Sweden, 2006)

 

An orchestra made up of “auditory cells” that behave like an organism. Their interaction results in a kind of microphone-speaker feedback which, filtered through special software, gives rise to auditory evolutions that allude to different moments in the history of music, ranging from Mozart to acid house.

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Martin Lübcke is a consultant in the area of computer programming, and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He is also a member of the band Måfå.

Olle Cornéer is a DJ, a producer in the area of electronic music, and a member of projects such as Dibaba (represented by the labels Gigolo Records and Plong!) and Dada Life (Breastfed, Pickadoll). He also writes articles on music for the specialized press.

La Plume et le Pissenlit

 

by Edmond Couchot (2006)

The strength and the duration of the viewer’s breath determine the movements of the seeds of a dandelion, which move along complex and different paths.

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Edmond Couchot

Professor emeritus of the University of Paris 8, where he created the chair of arts and technologies of image.

Michel Bret

Professor of the chair of Arts and Technologies of Image at the University of Paris 8.

Messa di Voce

by Golan Levin e Zachary Lieberman (2003)

The installation makes use of sophisticated voice recognition software to transform each vocal nuance into complex and expressive graphics.

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Golan Levin

A performance artist, who develops systems for the creation and simultaneous manipulation of image and sound.

Zachary Lieberman

He gives multimedia courses at the Parsons School of Design.

Life Writer

by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau (2005)

When the participants type a text on the keys of an old typewriter, they form creatures based on a genetic algorithm that determines their behavior and movement.

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Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau 

Austrian biologist Christa Sommerer and French artist Laurent Mignonneau are professors at the University of Arts and Design in Linz, Austria, where they also head the Department of Culture Interface in the Media Institute.

Eden

by Jon McCormack (2000)

An evolutionary installation of artificial life, which forms an ecosystem. The agents are cellular automata which interact with each other and with the environment.

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Jon McCormack

An Australian artist. He is a senior professor of Computer Science and co-director of the Centre for Electronic Media Art of the University of Monash in Melbourne.

Muntadas: Media, Architecture, Installations

by Antoni Muntadas e Anne-Marie Duguet (Spain – Canada, 1999)

CD-ROM that present the work of Antoni Muntadas, a Catalan artist who, via videos and installations, addresses issues related to power icons and the tricks of communication systems.

Anne-Marie Duguet is an art theorist and professor at the Fine Arts and Science of Arts College at Paris I University (Sorbonne) and director at the Centre of Aesthetic Research in Cinema and Visual Arts.