Interactive Installations

hamletmachine was an interactive sound piece by Jeff Burke, based on Heiner Muller’s play Hamletmachine, a deconstruction of Shakespeare and German history. The installation shattered a recording of Muller’s dialogue into sixteen pieces. During the initial incarnation at Fusion 2000, visitors entering a harshly lit, seemingly silent room triggered playback as their shadows fell on small sensors, raising or lowering each dialogue fragment’s volume based on a shadow's depth. The audio fragments … [Read more...] about hamletmachine

Invocation and Interference was a multi-screen environment that explored the intimate relationship between two modes of communication as one would travel through the Pampas region of Argentina. Created by Fabian Wagmister with interactive media systems by Jeff Burke, this interactive media environment reflected the transference of people’s communicational needs (and how others experience them) into the public space. Viewers’ bodies controlled the sound mixing, switches of videos, and a series of … [Read more...] about Invocation and Interference

In response to the history of physical and intellectual oppression in Latin America, Fabian Wagmister created a confrontational media space that responded to participant movement and touch. Participants were introduced to an elusive cinematic sequence in a mock prison cell, and eventually approached the interior of an environment of oppressive images. The participants then navigated the media space, leading to shifts in videos, flashes of light and activation of a hidden camera. Interactive … [Read more...] about Behind the Bars

This video installation by Peter Wollen, Kevin Fisher, and Jeff Burke explored the materiality of digital compression and analog film, based on Peter Wollen's 1977 film of the same name. Burke developed the visual approach and programmed a full-frame JPEG-inspired compression / quantization scheme for moving images. n01se: A series of exhibitions about information and transformation---Kettle’s Yard, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge University---2000. … [Read more...] about Riddles of the Sphinx

... two, three, many Guevaras is a digital multimedia database documentary by Fabian Wagmister that explores the legacy of Ernesto Che Guevara through the artistic representations and the artists he inspired. The piece was commissioned by the Fowler Museum, and been distributed broadly since. 1997. … [Read more...] about …Two, Three, Many Guevaras

An immersive, interactive media installation, Time & Time Again... explored intersections of technological dependency and cultural identity. The piece integrated sensing technologies, live media streaming, real-time video manipulation, and web-based show control. Databases created technological structures of interdependency in which museum visitors and web viewers depended on each others' participation for the conceptual loop to be completed. The piece was created by Fabian Wagmister and … [Read more...] about Time and Time Again…