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Engine of Engines
The Engine of Engines is a generative sound and video installation that responds in real-time to network traffic in the local environment. In the Hong Kong debut (see video), sixteen self-contained nodes, each comprised of a screen, processing-unit,…
Architecture of Association
The Architecture of Association is a large-scale, generative artwork that draws associative links between media elements to form an evolving visual collage. A distributed flow of image, video and poetic text is "intelligently" distributed over a…
The Watch Detail
The first major interactive work was entitled The Watch Detail (1990). Video images, sound and text that addressed the subject of time were explored interactively. This work employed Macintosh Hypercard media, that was used to control an interactive…
Exchange Fields
Artist StatementExchange Fields (2000), commissioned by the Vision Ruhr Exhibition in Dortmund Germany, incorporates the recorded dance and choreography of Regina van Berkel. The programmer Gideon May also became involved in this project. The central…
Red Dice / Des Chiffr
Red Dice / Des Chiffre (2000) was commissioned by the Canadian National Gallery and is now in their permanent collection. Seaman again worked with Chris Ziegler on the programming of the work. The work presents a text by the Poet Stephane Mallarme -…
The World Generator/The Engine of Desire
Artist StatementThe World Generator promotes a form of active looking/listening/interacting/understanding. Through interaction with this virtual world generator, text potentially qualifies differing emotive aspects of the current computer-based…
Communication<->Space
Artist StatementThe work expands Seaman's set of exhibitions related to the Thoughtbody Environment and Neosentience [ongoing collaboration with Otto Rossler] and extends Yeong-woong Cheong's work in terms of computer graphics/video generative…
Passage Sets/One Pull Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue (Wall of Light Version)
Artist StatementPassage Sets is a generative visual poem. It includes an interactive poem generator. The users of the system can position themselves in front of the screen and select words and/or phrases from four lists that become visual as they…
The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers
33 brief image and musical scenes are each based on a sentence of ten words. These exquisite image and sound compositions are mechanically combined, but internally organized by a poetic logic. The fragmentary aspect of splinter as well as the…