ERIC PARREN

In 1645 the Jesuit scholar, inventor, and natural philosopher Athanasius Kircher published the first edition of his notorious book Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae in which he included an illustrated description of his Steganographic Mirror.... >>more

Living in the liminal space between the mind and mathematics, interpolate is a realtime audiovisual performance for the sensory system. Part meditation on color theory, part reflection on the processing imperfections of the brain.... >>more

Gaze-based Emergent Pattern Evolver (GEPE) is a lofi webVR experience about the gaze in virtual reality and staring at reaction diffusion patterns .... >>more

Breeder is a website designed to let people playfully explore the principle of artificial evolution. The software is based on the concept of "the Biomorph" as proposed by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his book The Blind Watchmaker.... >>more

Undulator is an immersive kinetic installation that explores both the color and reflective properties of light. In similar fashion to Thomas Wilfred's Lumia machines Undulator is a cinematic display that celebrates light in its purest form... >>more

The synthesis of analog video and analog audio is based on oscillations. Audio uses oscillators at a lower frequency than video, but in general creating the signal for analog audio and video is based on the same principals. Drifting is a study of these oscillations.... >>more

Final Flight of the Space Shuttles is a live cinema performance about the final space shuttle missions to the International Space Station: STS-134 Endeavour and STS-135 Atlantis. It uses original audio and video from NASA's official Space Shuttle Audio Collection and the Kennedy Space Center Media Archive... >>more

Gut Feeling investigates the boundaries of current microcinematography by using an advanced optical microscope and by employing building blocks of the promising field of synthetic biology as the content of an audiovisual experience... >>more

The use of E. coli (Escherichia coli) bacteria in biotechnology and microbiology has been foundational to the development of flied of genetic engineering. The bacteria have a long history in laboratory culture and are one of the most widely studied model organisms... >>more

Aquasonics is a durational audio performance based around samples of water related sounds. It was developed for the 2016 CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial and was performed at multiple locations during the event... >>more

The Synesthesia Glasses are an experimental sensory manipulation tool that allow the wearer to experience what it might be like to have synesthesia. By cross feeding the sonic and visual senses, using augmented reality technology, the glasses create a hallucinatory experience... >>more

GenePool is an interactive installation that explores the topics of artificial life and artificial evolution. As we can see from countless examples in nature, evolution is a robust and creative process for finding solutions to complex problems... >>more

The Reinterpreting Radio Music Series is a trio of works based around the 1957 composition Radio Music by John Cage. It is a modern day reinterpretation of the piece and its intentions... >>more

Optical Amplification is a site specific immersive installation consisting of a quadraphonic sound setup, 24 laser modules, a smoke machine and a projector... >>more

Gliese-581g was the first ever discovered potentially habitable alien world. What would it be like for humans to travel to another galaxy and start life on an earth-like planet?... >>more