"Do something" is a special progress bar that shows in real time the elapsed percents of my life. The start date is of course my birth day, and the "death" date was estimated using the male life expectancy in France (source : CIA World Factbook 2008). I think this vision of time running is particularly motivating, even though some people may find it depressing.

AMomentOfSilence.tv is a multi-purpose memorial on the internet, commemorating any event that calls for a space of contemplation. Taken from a moment of silence on television which has been stretched and endlessly looped, AMomentOfSilence.tv works as though all moments of silence have been laid end to end, creating an endless memorial.

youtube video, sound, 2'20

This is a project I started when I found 541,795 pictures of sunsets searching the word ???sunset??? on the Flickr site. I took just the suns from these pictures and made snapshot prints of them. I think it's peculiar that the sun, the quintessential life giver, constant in our lives, symbol of enlightenment, spirituality, eternity, all things unreachable and ephemeral, omnipotent provider of optimism and vitamin D??? and so ubiquitously photographed, is now sublimated to the internet, the most virtual of spaces equally infinite but within a closed electrical circuit. Looking into this cool electronic space one finds a virtual window onto the natural world.

This is a project I started when I found 541,795 pictures of sunsets searching the word ?sunset? on the Flickr site. I took just the suns from these pictures and made snapshot prints of them. I think it's peculiar that the sun, the quintessential life giver, constant in our lives, symbol of enlightenment, spirituality, eternity, all things unreachable and ephemeral, omnipotent provider of optimism and vitamin D? and so ubiquitously photographed, is now sublimated to the internet, the most virtual of spaces equally infinite but within a closed electrical circuit. Looking into this cool electronic space one finds a virtual window onto the natural world.

Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators.

A poetic declaration about how we got too close to Duchamp's bicycle

"Fallow" is a collaboration by poet Rebecca Givens and new media artist Monica Ong. Published in Born Magazine, this project interprets contemporary poetry in the form of an online interactive narrative built with original photography, found objects and vintage images.

White noise is a noise- color-composer or a noise- color association interactive game simulator. An experimental approach of adding and subtracting noise-loops, creating color-patterns of noise while possibly splitting up the screen into smaller and smaller squares of color. The challenge is to create a noise free color combination space of peace. the project was featured at the javamuseum

Eavesdropping is an internet-based, interactive audio system that explores network mediated, musical performance in shared public spaces. In public environments, individuals interact by means of a variety of bodily and auditory cues and gestures. These ambient communication techniques can be directed at specific individuals or may be general expressions of mood meant for anyone who happens to notice. Visitors to public spaces, such as a café, seek the passive awareness of others to achieve a sense of connectedness born of shared experience, like the audience in a music venue. This project highlights the exhibitionism and voyeurism in the public sphere by amplifying participants' moods via music and increasing shared experiences to encourage deeper interaction. It aims to develop an environment which increases audience interaction and connectedness in a localized, computer-controlled performance. The system is a client-server architecture made of three components: (1) an audio preparation interface, (2) an interactive performance interface, and (3) a machine learning-based conductor. Musician's have contributed files to represent participants' moods. Participants input their mood during the performance. An artificial conductor mixes an acoustic ecology based on mood data. Participants are encouraged to respond to whether the audio represents the mood they've input. This allows the system to learn from audience response to more accurately represent participants' moods.

RealSnailMail is the worlds first messaging service to harnesses the potential of diminutive molluscs to deliver email messages. Your message travels at the speed of light to our collection point where it waits..... and waits for a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) equipped snail to pass by. Once collected your message is lugged around on the back of a snail until such time as it happens by the dispatch centre and is finally forwarded to its recipient. Normally when we communicate by email the physical endeavours of our fingertips are followed by an uninterrupted digital transportation until our thoughts are emitted through the pixels of the recipients screen. RealSnailMail creates a physical and biological interruption to this flow, interrupting for one small moment, our understanding of communication, allowing us to explore notions of time. It may even enable us to take time rather than lose it.

“Untitled Landscapes” disrupts the portable media player experience by infusing them with classical landscapes. However, these landscapes are inverted, shifting, and ever-changing. This work questions the relationship between technology and culture: Is there a way to imagine the natural environment that is neither romanticized nor a source of exploitable resources to drive an ongoing modernization? What happens when technological developments outpace the capacity for culture to respond to them?

"Text Trends is a sendup of the ubiquitous line graphs and related information returned by services like Google Trends. The project takes the content generated by these types of X vs. Y search queries and reduces this process to its most essential elements: search terms, frequency mentioned and a timeline. In experiencing the piece, the viewer sits idly and watches animations plot out the ebb and flow (or lack thereof) of a series of search terms over the last four years. This all plays out matter-of-factly with all the passion of a market index or a readerboard. Instead of the infoglut and hyper-interactivity of emerging news mashups and aggregators, Text Trends revels in stark pans across curated comparisons while exploring topics like political figureheads, temporality and politics." Greg J. Smith

magine an interactive installation housed in an oversized cedar cookie that delivers fortunes with the simple touch of a button... Enter the realm of the SendGoodKarma ! SendGoodKarma is a web-based public art project that is in need of your help. Send us your innermost secret, or your smarmiest wisecrack, or your private prayer, or your most outlandish prediction - Let your imagination and/or your heart guide you (spontaneously). Your text will be compiled and presented in the art installation in a city near you ! We require that all submissions be original (created by you). All submissions are to remain anonymous and copyrights free. If you leave your email, we will notify you when the over-sized cedar cookie print your text !

Camp La Jolla Military Park is a collection of objects, sites, and events that bring the past and the present together in order to preserve a moment in our ongoing military heritage. Just as museums make the history of war tangible, this project represents the history and current research curriculum of an educational institution that works with the defense industry. This database uses geographic coordinates, creating a relationship to the history of this place in order to understand its current uses. The interface is analogous to a military reconnaissance system, allowing the ability to plot locations on a map, identify and record relationships between participants, and provide keywords to facilitate comprehension. Requiring multiple definitions of each entry encourages the continued questioning and resolution of their relationships.

This web-based programme monitors Ellie’s progress as she strives towards achieving three momentous challenges over the course of the lifetime. For the first of these, the Trans-Atlantic Challenge, Ellie records and adds together all the lengths she swims weekly at her local pool in the hope of one day having swum the 5,400 kilometre distance from the UK to America.

Tea Blog is an ongoing project by British artist Ellie Harrison, which launched on 1 January 2006. Every time Ellie has a cup of tea (or a different type of hot drink) she notes down the thought which is most on her mind during the first few sips. These thoughts are then uploaded to the Tea Blog at regular intervals. Tea Blog aims to expand indefinitely over the next few years, developing over-time into a vast database of thoughts – a diary of day-to-day life via the ritual of tea-drinking.

Work With Me is an international campaign to help find a long-term collaborative partner for Ellie Harrison. Read all about Ellie’s ambitions and desires, her influences and expectations for art and her outlook on life. Peruse the ‘testimonials’ written by a range of Ellie’s previous collaborators, friends and family members including Jon Burgerman, Anne Harrison, Bernard Harrison, Helen Jones, Sally O’Reilly, Niki Russell and Jennie Syson, and then decide whether you’re right for the job - or if anyone is for that matter.

A spoof website promoting a revolutionary new self-help training regime for artists. The Artist’s Training Programme™ has been researched and developed by Ellie Harrison BA PGDip, alongside two of the world’s foremost self-improvement gurus - Paul McKenna PhD and Dr Ryuta Kawashima. Follow for four week programme today and transform your practice forever!

While the Internet's design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. The web is undergoing a transformation whose promise is user empowerment—but who controls the terms of this new read/write web? The web has followed the physical movement of the city's social center from the (public) town square to the (private) mall. ShiftSpace attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the web. By pressing the [Shift]+[Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions – which we call Shifts. Users can choose between several authoring tools we're working to develop – which we call Spaces. Some are utilitarian (like Notes and Highlights) and some are more experimental/interventionist (like ImageSwap and SourceShift). Users are also invited to map these shifts into Trails which can be used for collaborative research and extended as a platform for a context-based public debate. ShiftSpace is commissioning artists to use its developer API, and create their own spaces. The platform evolves through an Open Source process that seeks to build advanced social software tools, develop workshops and create online public spaces within a distributed network architecture.

You Are Not Here (.org) is a platform for urban tourism mash-ups. It invites participants to become meta-tourists on simultaneous excursions through multiple cities. Passers-by stumble across the curious You Are Not Here signs in the street. TheYANH street-signs provide the telephone number for the Tourist Hotline, a portal for audio-guided tours of one place on the streets of another. Through investigation of these points and with or without the aid of a downloadable map, local pedestrians are transformed into tourists of foreign places. Current walking tours include Baghdad through the streets of New York City and Gaza City through the streets of Tel-Aviv.