Eisenstein's Monster
Eisenstein's Monster
Eisenstein's Monster
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Eisenstein's Monster is a interactive video installation, a coupling of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and the film montage theories of Sergei Eisenstein. In this piece the user is invited to create life at the press of a button, then shape and twist these creatures to their whim. Biological life (the user) is transformed through the digital (video and Flash) and then back via the impressions and choices of the biological user, to become new and specific forms of cybernetic organism. The autoplay version - where the computer plays God - is designed for situations where user input is impossible.

While the piece is intended to be light-hearted, our collective fear of science playing God lurks here, as it did in Shelley's original work.


Awards & Exhibitions
  • NetSpace: Journey into Net Art: Bodies in Cyberspace, DARC (General Direction for Contemporary Architecture and Art) and MAXXI (National Museum of the XXI Century Arts), Rome, Italy (2007 - 2008)
  • Rhizome Artbase, (2007)
  • Featured work on Boston Cyberarts CD Catalogue, Boston, USA (2007)
  • HyperArtSpace, the Boston Cyberarts online gallery (2007)
  • International Digital Art Festival, Aarhus, Denmark (2006)
  • Thailand New Media Arts Festival, Bangkok, Thailand (2006)
  • Electronic Language International Festival (FILE-RIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2006)
  • with Museum of the Essential And Beyond That in 5th Liège International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, MAMAC (Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain), Liège, Belgium (2006)
  • chico.art.net, California State University, Chico, CA, USA (2005)
  • International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Rosario, Argentina (2005)
  • Electronic Language International Festival (FILE) 2005, São Paulo, Brazil (2005)
  • plástica argentina (10/2005)
  • Pixel Pops, City Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (2005)
  • 9th International Video Festival Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro (2005)
  • Electrofringe 2005, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (2005)
  • with WB05 at Refresh!, First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Banff, Canada (2005)
  • INCUBA, 1st Festival of Electronic Arts, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina (2005)
  • Playzone, Samsung Media Lounge, Seoul, Korea (2005)
  • International Media Art Festival, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia (2005)
  • Perspective < i, Seoul Net Festival, Korea (2005)
  • Thailand New Media Arts Festival, Bangkok, Thailand (2005)
  • The Web Biennial, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey (2005)
  • with Javamuseum in Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (2005)
  • EXTASY - The Final Show, JavaMuseum (2005)
  • BathHouse: The Contagion Issue, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2005)
  • Museum of the Essential And Beyond That, (2005)
  • shortlisted for Third Place Award (2004)
  • Fraenkelstein Art Projects, Sala verde da Casa de Cultura Humanista and Casa do Mini, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Espaço branco do Olho, Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil (2004)