“Lineage consists of several modules which play voice recordings and digitally synthesized tones.  Each module has LEDs to emit light and light sensors that respond to light from other modules.  As the viewer moves around the modules, he or she inadvertently breaks the connections by interrupting the light flowing from one module to another. This changes the pitch of the synthesized tones or disrupts the playback of the voice recordings. In this way, the viewer becomes an integral part of the work.” – Josh Gumiela

    

video at: http://gumielectronic.net/thesis/video/show/

    
     
   
     

“MindSpike is an interactive sculpture that uses EEG brainwave activity to control the flow of magnetic oil called ferrofluid. I modified the headgear of a kid’s game called Mind Flex to get access to the brainwave activity of the user. Participants put on this headgear and are asked to concentrate. As the EEG activity increases, the more electricity flows to an electromagnet.  This causes the ferrofluid to react with a spiky pattern unique to the material. The stronger the concentration level, the larger the spikes." – Sam Leto

    
     
   
     

 “SisyphOS: Digital Mortality is an electronic sculpture with a computerized interface that attempts to emotionally engage users with a trivia contest, both verbally by alternately taunting or pleading with its opponent and by non-verbal “symptoms” of punishment if it loses the game.”

    
     
   
     
“Transducers is an interactive & kinetic sculpture where water ripples from the center of two clear tanks of water based on the movement of participants in its direct vicinity."    
     
   
     
     
     
   
     
The viewer enters a box on their hands and knees into a cramped space, lined with dense cushioning.  When one moves his head through the hole in the top of the box, a video of a vast landscape fades into view down a long corridor.  This piece explored the psychic disconnect that occurs when visual information of vast space is coupled with the physical sensation of being confined.    
     
   
     

“IRL (In Real Life) is a wirelessly networked robotics experiment that explores the notion of digital surrogacy in real space, and its resulting social alter-egoism.  With this social-surrogate robot a user is able to explore the real world via a digital interface, without leaving the comfort of their home or office.”

   
     
   
     
     
     
   
     

As the viewer moves their hands around the Jello mold, lights imbedded in the Jello respond.

    
     
   
     

Each configuration of the finger controls cause the sculptural hands to move up or down at varying speeds.

    
     
   
     
     
     
   
     

“In Sugar Work, you are presented with a table.  On one side you find a silver tray of sugar, which you are instructed to taste with a silver spoon.  When you lift the spoon, a scene from the film, Soy Cuba by Mikhail Kalatozov is projected onto the sugar.  As you taste the sugar you realize the it is tainted with salt. 

On the other side of the table, you are given a machete and instructed to pull sugar from the raw cane, a task that may prove to be very difficult for the audience members. 

Sugar is a substance that has played a great part in the subjugation and enslavement of numerous peoples located and relocated in the Caribbean. In our world of refinement and packaged foods it is easy to forget how much work goes into producing sugar and what the costs are on a human level.”

– Ramah Malebranche		    
     
   
     

The artists were interested in educating people about brain function in memory recall.  There are questions to evoke memories affixed on the mirror.  As the audience answers each question, LEDs light up to represent the hippocampus at work.  The work was accompanied by a didactic on the topic.

    
     
   
     

An individual entity muses on existence and the meaning of life by asking endless questions.

    
     
   
     

Using a midi keyboard and Isadora software, images and sound of flowing water and moving trains are abstracted and transformed in live VJ-style performance.

    
     
   
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
   
     

Installation space was filled with wavering reflections from mylar moving slightly in the breeze of the vent system.

    
     
   
     

Personal exploration that compares working digitally to working on paper.

    
     
   
     

JPEG encoded photos of corrupt political figures are themselves corrupted by using a Hex editor to inject plain text descriptions of the corrupt acts into the Hex code.  Results are displayed in a web browser.