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1. Predictor

   Predictor is a web browser based online predictive text artwork. The user or inter-actor is able to enter, via the keyboard, text into a browser window. A statistical algorithm then analyses the probability of all the words that might follow the word just typed, based on the frequency of terms in a reference corpus text. This reference text can be arbitrary. In the case of this instance of the work the corpus is Kafka's Great Wall of China.

   Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:43

2. Golem

   Golem was a two channel video installation where the two monitors were arranged like the pages of an open book. The imagery was derived from medieval illuminated books so the overall effect was of an electronically illuminated manuscript. The work took as its theme the ancient Jewish myth of the Golem, a human-like creature created to do the bidding of its creator, the genesis of the Frankenstein story. The work deals with the issues around contemporary technologies such as genetics and Artificial Intelligence.

   (Source: Project description on Biggs's site)

   Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:45

3. Faen. Nå har de senket takhøyden igjen. Må huske å kjøpe nye knebeskyttere.

   Hypertext short story - second HTML version of short-story first published on paper cards in Sesam 71 from 1971. Can be read in sequence in the collection SF - Samlede fortellinger (collected stories) by Tor Åge Bringsverd.

   Thomas Brevik - 21.09.2010 - 11:46

4. Alchemy

   interactive laser disc installation with animated text and image

   Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:46

5. The Living Room

   interactive immersive installation with responsive spoken word and textual elements

   "Gallery based distributed interactive digital video projection environment
   Multiple rooms, each approximately 12 x 10 x 6 metres
   4 large scale projections, black and white and colour, multi-channel interactive sound

   Produced by The Film and Video Umbrella and CameraWork, London, UK 1994.
   Exhibited at Truman's Brewery, Whitechapel, London UK 1994.
   Funded by the Arts Council of England and assisted by Grand Metropolitan.

   Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:49

6. Presence

   interactive immersive installation with responsive language system

   Presence is a three beam interactive video projection installation commissioned for the Art Machine II exhibition at the Maclellan Galleries, Glasgow. It is composed of three screens using high resolution video projectors and three computers with a remote visual sensing system for viewer interaction. On the main screen are visible a number of actors who are individually interactive with the audience and with each other. Another screen features an enormous upside down shadow, whilst another is composed of a giant talking mouth. The piece uses object oriented and behavioural programming techniques.

   Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:57

7. The Castle

   interactive large scale outdoor environment with non-linear language engine

   The Castle is a large scale interactive video projection designed for specific architectural sites. The title makes reference to Kafka's novel of the same name, the work taking as its subject the incomprehensible character of systems of administration and power. The work is composed of four large independently interactive figures, reminiscent of public sculptures on public buildings. It also uses a crude grammar engine to generate short statements, which reflect the activity of the figures and that of the viewers.

   (Source: Artist's statement from the project site)

   Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:58

8. Magnet

   Magnet is an interactive work employing remote visual sensing techniques and large scale digital video projection. Magnet employs two computers, two low light video cameras and two high resolution data projectors. The work also includes interactive quadraphonic audio.

   The idea of the work came from a news story about Dutch scientists who levitated a frog four metres above the ground, without harm, using intense magnetic fields. This work imagines that other forces, such as fear or desire, might also achieve this end. The figures, approximately four metres tall, emerge from the floor of the gallery, hovering above the viewers. They also get stuck in the roof, just their dangling feet still visible. They can only be rescued through interaction with various of the other figures. Using realtime translucent digital layering techniques, the figures are able to merge with one another, creating further beings of arbitrary gender.

   (Source: Artist's statement from the project site)

   Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:59

9. Les 12 Travaux de l'Internaute / The 12 Labors of the Internet User

   In this piece, the internet user is regarded as the Hercules of the Internet. Often, he has indeed the impression to have to achieve Herculean labours. It can be a question of blocking popups which keep coming when one would like to see them disappear (the Lernean Hydra), cleaning the inbox of its spam (the Augean Stables), driving away the advertising banners (the Stymphalian Birds) or retrieving specific information (the Belt of the Queen of the Amazons)... This work draws upon the mythology of everyday life. It does not consist in showing the tragedy of existence, but in transforming our daily activities into a myth. It is consequently a question of experiencing technology in an epic - but also humoristic - mode.

   (Source: Author's description)

   Serge Bouchardon - 21.09.2010 - 12:00

10. Halo

    Halo is composed of four interactive video projections using very powerful high resolution video projectors and four computers with an infra-red remote visual sensing system for viewer interaction. On each screen is visible a number of figures. Each figure is individually interactive, with the audience and with each other. The piece uses object oriented and behavioural programming techniques.

    Each figure is individually interactive and the viewer is fully modelled within the interactive system. A gravity well forms around each viewer, attracting flying figures into their orbit. When the viewer approaches the screen the figures are 'pulled' down to earth, where instead of flying they walk in direct interaction with the viewer. A number of interactive texts using generative grammars, based on the textual works of William Blake, are visible on each screen.

    (Source: Project description from Biggs's site)

    A book about the work is available (essays by Jim McLellan, Sean Cubitt, Steven Bode and Stuart Jones) from Film + Video Umbrella

    Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 12:00

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