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Earthly Bliss

I found a dusty oil painting similar to the famousWindows XP wallpaper on my parents’ attic.The history of computer graphics has to be rewritten. When I helped my father to tidy out the attic, a stack...

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Windows Real

With the YouTube blockbuster Windows Real users can experience an absolutely real interface. It was the result of a seminar I gave at Merz Akademie. Models are simplified realities. Computers once were...

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Prints on Canvas: Vista Ed.

Why the standard icons for my digital images on Windows could be sold at bargain bins and why a collector from New York pays a small fortune for my version? Print on Canvas: Three-D in Cory’s office…...

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Aero: Home Security

The first print made of Vista wallpapers and icons (in various sizes). Lucky me! There are 256 by 256 pixel big images in the many concealed DLL files! More soon.

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Aero: User Romance

Diptych on the romantic feelings operating systems can develop when in close touch. The desktop icons have a picnic then they go swimming—on wallpapers. More soon.

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Aero: System Holidays

The population of Windows Vista has gone to holiday in protected mode. The wanted to shut down gracefully. But on the way home they crashed anyway. All residents of Windows Vista have gone for a swim,...

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Aero Contest

For the second Interface Art competition I decided that my partner should be nobody less than Microsoft. So far my inquiries have fallen on deaf ears. There is not much to report yet. The Aero Contest...

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Defence

Defence is a selection of aluminium shields extracted from the interface of Windows Vista.They can be used in sword fight or similar combat. Defence are overall five shields from the graphical user...

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Traveling Desktop Country

At MoAA Berlin I was starting to think of Windows as a very white-bread system whose suit wearing citizens picnic on far reaching meadows. Therefore I have tried to obtain the view of a cultural...

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Windows 68

Windows 68 is a modification of Windows XP that starts a revolutionary in the system. Press Revolution! instead of Start, use Graffiti instead of Paint! After some time in any suppressing system people...

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Desktop Island

Got struck on a deserted island.So I thought.By now I discovered a lost civilization based on—Windows.I cannot leave yet, so please read my notes! This interface-based robinsonade I wrote in 2009 for...

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7 Windows

Seeing now through dim Windows obscurely,but then face to face; now I know partially,but then I shall know as I also have been known.1 Corinthians 13:12 This is the first part of a series of overall...

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Firewall Ball

Play Firewall Ball until no brick of the famous icon rests on one another!The highly official sport for the 21st century premiered at Ars Electronica this summer. For quite some time now I was thinking...

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Firewall Ball Masters

At Merz Aka we played the Swabian Masters of Firewall Ball. Several bruises and broken bones later, we came up with a new set of rules for the aspiring sport. The Firewall Ball Cup took place during...

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