“Engineered” 2001
Images Science is a system of knowledge. Medicine is a branch of science that deals with the human body. Science categorizes, cuts, dissects and projects in order to come to knowledge. Medical science...
View Article“Oracle” 2003
Images | Video Documentation | Project Source (230MB) “Oracle” is an interactive new media installation. It uses real-time weather data, chaos math, and the presence of the viewer(s), to create...
View Article“Step & Repeat” 2003
Images “Step & Repeat” is an interactive video installation. For each step the user takes toward the screen the character on-screen takes a step toward the user. Rather than being controlled by the...
View Article“Floatscript” 2005
Prototype Video | Exhibition Video “Floatscript” is an interactive installation. The viewer is greeted to a touch-screen. The image of the screen shows a number of small words subtly floating in the...
View Article“Resurfacing” 2006
Ben Bogart & Donna Marie Vakalis Images | Prototype Video | Installation Video Resurfacing Website | Resurfacing: Byward Market Website “Resurfacing” captures and archives snapshots or moments in...
View Article“Memory Association Machine: Study of Cognitive Processes #1″ 2007(aka...
Images | PDCON07 Paper | PDCON07 Video “Memory Association Machine” is the first prototype in a series of site-specific responsive installations. Rather than depending on the artist to define how these...
View Article“Dreaming Machine #1″ (prototype) 2008
Image | Video Documentation | Dream Video Can a machine dream? Dreams are a complex interaction between our bodies, minds, memories, and experiences. “Dreaming Machine” is a trajectory of...
View Article“Dreaming Machine #2″ 2009
Video Documentation (Hong Kong) (10MB) Video Documentation (São Paulo) (183MB) Dream Sequence (Montréal) (83MB) Selection of Dreams from Hong Kong, São Paulo and Montréal (340MB) Can a machine dream?...
View Article“Step & Repeat #2″ 2009
Video Documentation “Step & Repeat #2” is a recreation of “Step & Repeat” (2003) using Arduino and high-resolution video.
View ArticleAn Artist in Process:A Computational Sketch of Dreaming Machine #3
Results of the mini-residency and exhibition of work in progress towards Dreaming Machine #3 at New Forms Festival 2012. Video Documentation: Selected Images:
View Article“Watching and Dreaming (2001: A Space Odyssey) (version 1)” 2014
Installation Video (350MB) | Detail Video (43MB) | Promo Package (PDF) An image is a reference to some aspect of the world which contains within its own structure and in terms of its own structure a...
View Article“Watching (Blade Runner) (Work in Progress)” 2016
Video Sequence A (250MB) | Video Sequence B (180MB) Watching (Blade Runner) (Work in Progress) is one channel of what is envisioned as a two channel generative video installation that was the focus of...
View Article“Watching (Blade Runner)” 2016
Promo Package (PDF) I think of subjectivity and reality as mutually constructive. Cognitive mechanisms impose structure on reality in the form of imaginary categories that inform prediction and...
View Article“Through the haze of a machine’s mind we may glimpse our collective...
Promo Package (PDF) “Through the haze of a machine’s mind we may glimpse our collective imaginations (Blade Runner)” is the result of a machine subject reorganizing the pixels and audio samples from...
View Article“Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” 2018
“Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” is a revisit of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” using the same generative methods from “Watching (Blade Runner)” (2016). In this case of this work, the...
View Article“Watching (Blade Runner; 2001: A Space Odyssey; TRON)” 2018
As part of the “Watching and Dreaming” exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery TechLab “Watching (Blade Runner)” (2016), “Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” (2018), and “Watching (TRON)” (2018) where...
View Article“Percepts from Watching (Blade Runner; 2001: A Space Odyssey; TRON)” 2016;...
As part of the “Watching and Dreaming” exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery TechLab. Three 47″ x 47″ light-boxes were produced thanks to the support of the British Columbia Arts Council. Each light-box...
View Article“Watching (TRON)” 2018
The third in the series of “Watchers” following “Watching (Blade Runner)” (2016) and “Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” (2018). For this work, the approach was the same as used in the 2001: A Space...
View Article“Imagined Field from the Decomposition of an Apparatus” 2019
This work was produced in the context of the Leaning Out of Windows project, where artists, scholars and physicists are placed in collaborative dialogue in the development of new artistic works. One of...
View Article“Machines of the Present Consume the Imaginations of the Past” (Moving...
“Machines of the present consume the imaginations of the past” is a series of prints and moving images generated by machine interpretations of the canon of Western painting. These still and moving...
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