Expanded Eye is an interactive light sculpture composed by a big trans-parent eye suspended from the ceiling. The big eye looks to the user, but it’s in fact user’s eye which is projected. The sculpture recognizes the user’s eye blinking and generates an interactive animation based on it.
Each blink of the user multiplies the number of eyes in the projection in a fragmented, hexagonal and dislocated way.

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Piksel 08
code dreams
mixed media
12.12.08 - 25.01.09

  

Expanded Eye
by Anaisa Franco (BR)

  

Exist pl
by Pall Thayer (IS)

  hello

Hello Process!
by Aymeric Mansoux (FR) & Marloes de Valk (NL)

Ballade...
Natt & Dag...
Byavisen...

Hologram
by Øyvind Mellbye (NOR)

  

Zeitgeist (freedom in/poetry out)
by Frederico Bonelli (I) & Robert Fisher (USA)

  gaps

Gaps (I am from the gaps in my thinking)
by aka Bjørn Magnhildøen (NOR)

  

The Zeitgeist Poetry Machine, or a Pneumolisolemmigraph (wind breaking word writer) is a kind of transformer. The machine reacts when the volume is below a limited value, and an image is taken by a web cam pointing at the words lying on the bottom of a transparent box. This image will be processed by the Pneumolisolemmigraph with a custom designed algorithm using carefully chosen symbolic images, from ancient manuscripts and children drawings.

Hello Process! shows a machine doing what it does best: deleting, copying and moving blocks of data.
The installation consists solely of a computer and a printer. The computer functions as it usually does, like a black box theater of processes. The only output comes through the printer, giving us clues about the activity inside, while in the background, the raw noise of the machine creates a sound scape, a sonification of this theater of naive computation.

Exist.pl is an exploration of the metaphysical and ontological qualities of a computer program. It is designed as an introspective analysis conducted by the program itself, producing no output in the process. It begins with a Cartesian reduction.
Through a traditional version-based evolution of software, a single program is provided with increasingly complex methods for examining and perhaps understanding its own existence and state of being.

Noemata is working with different kinds of e-poetry, e-literature and procedural art. This installation represents a data program that is mixing, remixing and filtering information from the Internet, like mainstream social net communities.
When typing the keyboard, the screen will display new and combined fragments of text on the computer screen. In this way the spectator stays in a middle position between the meta world of the Internet and the real life in general, and may reflect over this situation.

Mellbye’s installation presents a low-resolution electro-mechanical volumetric display. This project wants to question a linear idea of technological development by fusing technology and aesthetics from the past and the future to create the hologram which was first postulated in 1912.
The Hologram is controlled by a binary program made by adhesive plastic foil on a loop of sheet metal that is pulled through a mangler past 125 sensors.