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James Turrell's perceptual cells incorporate the neurophysiological apparatus as an active participant not only in the reception of projected moving-images, but also in the very production and transmission of virtual moving-images. Combining two ...

Pulse Shape 22 is an improvisational audiovisual performance featuring shortwave radio transmissions as the sole source material for real-time audio processing alongside video of the sun projected through cast-glass lenses designed specifically for this ...

In light of recent controversies surrounding massive data collection by corporations and government agencies, digital privacy, the right to oblivion, and data ownership have become increasingly important concerns. This paper describes the author's ...

For this paper, the authors selected three historical events taken from the Annals of the Choson Dynasty that represent dramatic and tragic stories about parents and their sons for data visualization. By connecting names with entities indicating ...

Raised on YouTube is an installation and game that grows plants using only the light of projected video and makes ecology legible as a multiplayer game. The challenge of finding the most nurturing video is crowdsourced online. As players watch a webcam ...

Social engagement in public space can be an awkward, challenging, and often difficult experience for people unfamiliar with each other or their surroundings. The need for an impartial mediator to connect people is something that artists have been ...

In a media landscape filled with touchscreens, flat displays, projections, and virtual reality goggles, immersion in a data landscape is a fairly common experience. Simply put on a headset with some form of VR software, and magically be transported to a ...

With the plethora of real-time information and news coming from both commercial news sources and individual broadcasters using the internet and Twitter to get their messages across, we seem to have arrived at a backlog of data chaos that is clamoring ...

Virtual spaces and 3D-rendered objects can both be manipulated in on-screen environments and modified by designers in real time. We are now so accustomed to our ability to "fly through" these rendered spaces with computer mice or handheld controllers ...

Although Viktor Jan's Flower may seem like an interloper among the many data sculptures and media representations appearing in this exhibition, it provides a contrast from the other works by focusing on how data can spur the creation and loss of natural ...

Russian artist Dmitry Morozov's Metaphase Sound Machine plays off of our increasing dependence on the information and electronic noise that permeates our everyday lives. The project is based on the ideas of American physicist Nick Herbert, who created ...

In today's digital media landscape, we are constantly surrounded by displays, from the LCDs found on the phones in our pockets to the ubiquitous screens that greet us whenever we enter a store, airport, taxicab, doctor's office, or educational ...

The internet has enabled us to accomplish so many things. The universal appeal and power of the internet to change and augment our daily lives is both undeniable and inevitable. Every day we go online and consume endless amounts of media---audio, video, ...

In indoor physical spaces, the door is the main obstacle to entering and exiting rooms and hallways. From a usability perspective, Donald Norman is celebrated for wondering how "such a simple thing as a door" can be "so confusing" [7]. The door as ...

Networks---especially social networks and news aggregators on the internet, such as Facebook, Vine, Twitter, YouTube, DIGG, and others---rely on numbers to rank and catalog content and status. People interacting online are now using these numbers as a ...