'1992-404' is a memorial to dead web links which pokes fun at precious thinking about online identity, 1992 being the beginning of the Internet in its popular form and 404 being the error code a web browser receives when trying to view a dead link. The piece appears as an appropriation of Maya Lins' Vietnam War Memorial, not to degrade the war memorial in any way, but rather to emphasise the triviality of the subject matter by comparing the two. A physical installation of this piece then extends the idea of these ephemeral identities being imbued with physical mortality.

"Almost ashore – visions of Bacbuc" is a apprx 2 hours loop of a very slowly, in between seasons fading landscape. Along with the slowness words from news headlines on the internet are filling up the image, almost like a fog.

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In .news series. I use internet news sources. They are mixed with images, sounds and texts from other sources or made by me using a javascript. In 7 minutes you will automatically visit the front pages of about 50 international newspapers. These informations will be sided by calming text and sounds and music from politicians. About manipulation.

ViolenceS.exe an accelerated reconstruction of the text "What is violence, how to react on it?" written by visitors of bram.org/beinghuman/poll/indexviolenceeng.php from 07 04 2006 till now. The .exe for pc reconstructs what happened with the text and gives a moving image portrait of violence in our society. The .exe permits to reintroduce the phrases written during a lonely surf session in real space. The project exists in French and English.

Spamology is a live audiovisual representation of word frequencies in spam e-mail messages. The visualization is based on analysis of a private archive of spam messages which were collected during 10 years (1998-2007), containing up to 2,000,000 emails originated from various parts of the world. Spam data is audiovisualized in a 3D landscape, where popular words are represented as rectangular structures of various heights, illustrating the occurrence rate of each word in the archive year. Each word represents itself both in the visual

To address the issue of global immigration management, Société Réaliste has devised a three-part project consisting of a website, a promotional campaign and a physical installation. The EU Green Card Lottery website mimics a very specific type of website - “parasite” websites - which exploit aspiring migrant workers hoping to apply for the American Green Card Lottery system. These sites encourage migrant candidates to apply to the U.S. State Department Lottery through them and pay for this service which is actually free. These parasite websites are designed to resemble official U.S.

Global index of the decay of the aura of language, the Dadameter aims at measuring our distance to Dada. It was inspired by the work of the french writer Raymond Roussel. The project is a satire about the recent transmutation of language into a global market ruled by Google et al. and uses the most up-to-date technologies of control to draw cartographies of language at large scale.

"anything that happens, happens. anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. it doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though." d.adams 12 pages of the hidden matrix of coincidences – reflecting the architecture of network memories. flip firmly! listen carefully!