Google Storybook  [2004 03 02]
Interactive Installation
[Media: Still image projection, Internet connection, Input tablet]

The results of loading random words from Google Images into a random sentence generator. The chosen words and images are labelled with underlines and filenames, respectively. Users choose which quadrant to update, then which parameter: the main character, the word to search or the sentence.

Internet Family  [2004 01 13]
End-User Application
[Media: Digital photography, Internet connection]

The eye sees what it wants to -- surveillence included.

This piece explores voyeurism and increased web usage by means of an end-user application run over the internet. Technically, this piece consists of two images with random offsets. An image downloaded from a French site cataloging a festival this past summer and a moving red frame drawn on top of the image, leading the eye. There is an occasional pause as each image loads. There is no pattern to the image chosen or the position of the red frame, but each time the image pauses, it infers to the user that a target has been found.

Ideally, this application will be expanded to take completely random images from the internet, with some amount of user control, mainly in the form of 'desired' subject matter or focus. However, absolute control will remain beyond the user.