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Emotional Machines:
Nothing (without you)

Kinetic Sculpture
Custom electronics, copper, privacy glass, silicone, hair, 2003/2005
Adam Chapman
DOCUMENTATION

Emotional Machines playfully examines they way we ascribe emotion to inanimate technologies. Each reactive sculpture is an embodiment of a human emotion. >more

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Emotional Machines:
Cuddle/Coddle

Kinetic Sculpture
Custom electronics, fur, plastic, 2003/2005
Adam Chapman
DOCUMENTATION (audio)

Emotional Machines playfully examines they way we ascribe emotion to inanimate technologies. Each reactive sculpture is an embodiment of a human emotion. >more

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Emotional Machines:
Dance/Fight

Interactive Video Sculpture
Custom electronics, DVD player, privacy glass, wood, 2003/2005
Adam Chapman
DOCUMENTATION (audio)

Emotional Machines playfully examines they way we ascribe emotion to inanimate technologies. Each reactive sculpture is an embodiment of a human emotion. >more

faith and doubt

Faith
DVD Loop 2005
Adam Chapman
VIDEO
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Gathering
Interactive Video Installation
Custom Software & Display, 2004
Adam Chapman & Camille Utterback
DOCUMENTATION

A networked, real-time interactive video installation, commissioned by and permanently installed at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum. >more

Slanted Noon

Slanted Noon
DVD Loop 2004
Adam Chapman
VIDEO (audio)

Slanted Noon is part of a series of work which explores the formal aspects of film by deconstructing existing movies and reassembling them into new works. >more

mixed messages

Mixed Messages
Custom electronics, stuffed animals, 2003
Adam Chapman
DOCUMENTATION (audio)

A playful exploration of mixed messages in relationships. >more

PDPal

PDPal
Internet: Custom software, 2003
Scott Paterson, Marina Zurkow, Julian Bleecker, Adam Chapman
WEBSITE: www.PDPal.com

PDPal explores the way we concieve of cities, allowing for an alternative type of cartography, a poetic mapping of space and time. >more

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Miroir pour Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Interactive Video Installation
Custom Software & Display, 2002
Adam Chapman & Camille Utterback
DOCUMENTATION (audio)

A real time responsive Cubist video mirror. >more

conception

Conception
DVD Loop 2002
Series of 4
Adam Chapman
VIDEO

One of a series of 4 examining the physical embodiment of desire. >more

conception

Second Thoughts
DVD Loop 2002
Series of 4
Adam Chapman
VIDEO

One of a series of 4 examining the physical embodiment of desire. >more

whitney bienieal.com

WhitneyBiennial.com
Internet : Video, 2002
Scott Paterson & Adam Chapman
VIDEO

Flash animation shot and produced in Baryshnikov's Dance Studio at White Oak Plantation in Yulee, Florida in response to invitation from WhitneyBiennial.com. >more

ROPE

Rope: Unraveled, Rewoven
DVD Loop, 2001
Adam Chapman
VIDEO (audio)

Rope: Unraveled, Rewoven is part of a series of work which explores the formal aspects of film by deconstructing existing movies and reassembling them into new works. >more

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see/saw
Interactive Installation, 2001
Adam Chapman & Camille Utterback
DOCUMENTATION (audio)

A see-saw acts as interface and metaphor for an audio and video narrative about a relationship. >more

I Remember

I Remember...
Internet: Custom software, 2000
Adam Chapman
WEBSITE: www.theadm.com/iremember (audio)

The dynamics of a relationship are mirrored through a conversation between a couple via a game of Pong.

gloaming

Gloaming
Generative Audio/Video Installation
Custom Software and Display, 2000
Adam Chapman
sketch (audio)

A generative audio and video piece. Song is determined by flight pattern and interplay of the fireflies. >more

the beauty project

The Beautiful Project
Internet: Custom software, 2000
Adam Chapman
WEBSITE: www.theadm.com/beauty (audio)

Over 50 people from wildly divergent backgrounds were interviewed for this project. Glimpses of their views, a layering of their voices and perspectives, the bits and pieces their insights offer into a larger picture. >more

impermanence agent

The Impermanence Agent
Internet: Custom software, 1999/2003
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Adam Chapman, Brion Moss, Duane Whitehead
WEBSITE: www.impermanenceagent.com

This "agent" communicates with your browser, reacting to and appopriating whatever you encounter. It appropriates text and images you've browsed into its own story of loss, until the Agent's story is supplanted by the tale of your history. >more

suture

S U T U R E
Internet: Custom software, 1999
Adam Chapman
WEBSITE (audio)

S U T U R E is part of the traveling SIGGRAPH 99, Digital Salon 99 shows.

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