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by Vlasta Volcano Mikic
with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
by David Crawford
with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
In the course of its evolution, the U.S. flag displays visual associations to the British flag alongside to its own unique elements. The evolution of this visual language echoes the political and cultural revolution in that characteristics of the British Empire were borrowed or transformed to suit the needs of the American Revolutionaries. National Velvet opens a window into some of the forces at work behind a visual language that is often taken for granted.
by John Hudak
with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
Interactive sounds and images in varying juxtapositions.
by Eugene Thacker
with funds from the Jerome Foundation
This project is an attempt to assemble a body of discourses surrounding contemporary molecular genetics and biotechnology at the end of the millennium. In the same way that researchers approach genetics and biotech on the level of information and code, this project is a selective gathering of cloned webpages, a "discourse network" of the genetic body.
by Angie Eng
with funds from the Jerome Foundation
Empty Velocity is a 21st Century Taoist journey of stop motion interruptions, joints moving simultaneously, empty rooms and random velocity. Imagery and text based on the Eastern philosophy is combined with symbols of transitional points or joints. Both negative and positive energies in the form of velocity are represented along the journey. These forces of physical and cyber work together to express the vital energy (choi).
by Andy Deck
with funds from The Greenwall Foundation
Part visualization and part abstraction, CultureMap is an imaging system that depicts the evolving content of the Web. Using data collected from search engines, it produces an interactive image that reflects the prevalence of various words in the pages of the Web. Keywords: meta-cartographic information art.
by Diane Ludin
with funds from The Greenwall Foundation
Each day new data emerges tracing the shifting boundaries between the 'organic' and 'non-organic'. Genetic Response System 3.0 reflects these shifts. In this version search strings or "Viroids" seek data online specific to these eroding boundaries. In assembling the results of "Viroid" searches, version 3.0 brings into question the tactical foundations in the representation of biotechnology's emergence as a new economy.
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by Diane Bertolo
with funds from The Greenwall Foundation and
the National Endowment for the Arts
channelUntitled tunes into the spectres that haunt technology and provides a channel to air their messages. Who are these beings that dwell here? Spirits of the dead? The strained voices of technology-induced mass hysteria? A confusion of noise and frequency? An operating system run amok? Perhaps you'll find yourself among the disembodied...
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by John Hudak
with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
by Annette Weintraub
Film genre and the icons of the Times Square/42nd Street landscape converge in an exploration of the capacity of film to shape our sense of place. Crossroads creates a layered narrative space in which familiar elements of film and advertising culture are remixed in a series of pseudo films that blend personal myth and public space.
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