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Karen O'Rourke. A Map Larger Than the Territory

2001-4. Geographically oriented database built of images, sounds, and text contributed as people travel across several world cities. Top shows sample of images participants stored and bottom shows some trajectories across Paris.

Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud. Zone*Interdite

2006. People send in information about forbidden access places. Image shows Virtual 3-D reconstruction of Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay detention center of suspected terrorists.

Michael Aschauer. Danube Panorama Project

2006. Automated slit-scan camera takes coordinated pictures of the sides of the Danube River under GPS control.

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Hasan Elahi. Tracking Transience

2006.A series of self-surveillance projects that document location in real time and comprehensively photograph mundane activities such as meals eaten.

Michelle Teran. Friluftskino: Experiments in Open Air Surveillance Cinema

2007.Live surveillance intercepted from wireless CCTV cameras is captured and then rebroadcast upon the city walls.

Ken Goldberg.Demonstrate

2004. A state-of-the-art tele-robotic webcamera installed over UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza for six weeks during the 40th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement.

Seiko Mikami. Desire of Codes

2007. Sixty moving structures orient themselves to gallery visitors' movements.

Bjorn Schulke. Observer

2001. Ominous robot specialized for observation. Height : 200 cm. Operation circle: 350 cm

Jonah Brucker-Cohen. Police State

2003. The Radical Software Group’s CarnivorePE software monitors text on the network and links mentions of terrorism to control radio controlled toy police cars.

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James Patten. Corporate Fallout Detector

2005. A bar code scanning device that returns a clicking signal correlated with the corporate responsibility record of the manufacturer of the product.

Evan Karatzas. Proximity Lab

2006. A sensitive walking surface reads RFID chips embedded in shoes and responds with customized image and sound based on where participant is standing and proximity to others. 9.12) shows sensors being inserted into slippers.

Ryota Kimura. S.U.I. - Smart Urban Intelligence

2006. Installation features fictional railway agent who uses AI techniques to interpret the data on participants' Tokyo railway smartcard. While waiting for visitors, it projects general information about travels. It gives more specific information once a user swipes a card.

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Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin. The Battle of Algiers

2006. Classic Film is broken into segments and algorithmically recomposed, using features such as location on screen and size of image for thematic purposes.

Lev Manovich. Soft Cinema

2002-2005. Custom software creates cinema sequences by selecting clips from a database. Top shows sample thumbnails representing a video database. Bottom shows the generator program that picks videos based on formal and content parameters.

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Chris Ziegler. 66movingimages

2002. Access to video documentation of road trip on US Highway 66 is correlated to relative position of movable screen on a track.

Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy (visualization). Brant Robertson, Lars Hernquist, T.J. Cox, Harvard University (simulation)

2006. Visualization of a scientific simulation of two colliding galaxies to study collision of black holes at the center of the galaxies. From digital planetarium show "Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity"

John Klima. Ecosystem

2000-2. System to visualize world financial markets in real time with flocks of birds (representing values of various currencies) and trees (with branches representing market index values)

Ingo Gunther. Worldprocessor

1988-present. Illuminated globes visualize various sociological, political, economic, and scientific phenomena

Osman Khan and Daniel Sauter. We Interrupt your Regularly Scheduled Program

2003. System creates projected display of sequential one pixel width lines representing average color and intensity of each frame of TV broadcast.

Marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton. Newsmap

2003. System automatically scans Google's news site and prepares a dynamically changing collage of rectangles that symbolizes relationships of current news items as represented by world news sources.

Lisa Jevbratt. Migration

2002-5. Cutouts from a visualization of the whole Internet showing (as colored areas) where the web is located according to the findings of the artists' software crawlers. Size of blobs indicates amount of web servers found at various IP addresses, colors indicate what years the servers were present, and white areas indicate no web servers at those locations. The top image shows images that existed in 1999(red), 2001(green), and 2004(blue); the bottom shows when sites were last modified

Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen. Listenting Post

2002-2005. Sculptural installation presents moving text and synthesized speech derived from monitoring of real time communication on Internet chat rooms.

Stanza. Sensity

2003. A wireless network of sensors set up in the artist's neighborhood sends readings about urban activity, which are visualized on a large globe projection. The green circles represent activity levels at the sensors

George Legrady. Making Visible the Invisible

2005. Animated display linked to real time library circulation processes shows the flow of book titles in and out and relative popularity of Dewey decimal categories.

Ben Fry. Valence

1999-2002 The structural relationships of the text of Mark Twain's novel Innocents Abroad are visualized as a dynamic 3-D animation showing relationships among words such as frequency and proximity.