Pierre Sermanet put together this video of some clips from the last few months which aims to explain most of the elements of the system which were working together in a pretty efficient end to end system

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Hi all Miwa and I have been invited to participate in the annual kite making day at Socrates. We'll be showing everyone how to make the shopping bag kites. The goal is to get as many shopping bags into the sky as possible to come on down!

From the Press Release:

Long Island City, NY (March 10, 2008) : Socrates Sculpture Park and The Noguchi Museum are proud to present the sixth annual kite making workshop and flying event. This free hands-on workshop will take place at Socrates Sculpture Park and welcomes children of all ages to participate. This year, children and their families will find an excellent new use for plastic bags by transforming this durable, and light weight material into beautiful recycled kites! Kite designs are provided by artists Miwa Koizumi and Marco Scoffier who will draw inspiration from the Park's fantastic view of the Manhattan skyline. Participants will have the opportunity to build and decorate their kites, then fly them in the Park. (more)

Press

• The New York Times: Apr. 25 Weekend Arts
• Time Out New York: Apr. 24-30, About Town

Our page about the Kite Project

Part of the group show Volume at 3rd Ward

Opening Sunday May 6th, 2007 2-6pm

We are participating in Shipwreck, Flux Factory's project at Socrates Sculpture Park this summer.

FLUX FACTORY

Jean Barberis, Mikey Barringer, Jason David Brown, Paul Burn, Daupo, Andrea Dezso, Kerry Downey, Ellie Ga, Christy Gast, Stefany Anne Golberg, Chris Hackett, Aya Kakeda, Miwa Koizumi, Ruby Kwon, Fabienne Lasserre, Marie Lorenz, Eleanor Lovinsky, Brian Matthews, Morgan Meis, Ian Montgomery, Nick Normal, Adrian Owen, Douglas Paulson, Annie Reichert, Duke Reilly, Anthony Rhoads, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Ksenya Samarskaya, Marco Scoffier, David Felix Sutcliffe

On a beautiful, sunny and windy Sunday Oct. 15th as part of the DUMBO Arts Festival, Miwa and Marco will be making and flying kites made from shopping bags in the Brooklyn Bridge Park (number 2 on the map). Against the astounding backdrop of lower Manhattan, we will be harnessing the power of the wind to send shopping bags into the atmosphere. We will be in the park from 1-4pm (weather permitting). There are many interesting things going on around DUMBO this weekend so come on down.

When: Sunday Oct. 15 1-4pm
Brooklyn Bridge Park
DUMBO
F train to York St. 3 blocks to the Park.
number 2 on the Festival map

Miwa and I made a bunch of kites from shopping bags, bamboo skewers and packing tape. The wind at Brighton Beach was much more stable than at Propect Park. Some of the designs flew really well. Shopping bags in the sky.

Almost Something is an art show, which includes concerts and movie nights. It is easy to get lost in the imaginations of more than 20 artists including musicians, writers, film-makers and fakes. Critics have created 4 separate guide books with maps and an audio tour. These are your tools, they are all unreliable, sniffing out the fakes is up to you.

What the critics are saying about Almost Something:

Melting Pot: The work of nearly 20 artists has been melted into the fabric of the gallery space to the point where the gallery feels completely empty. Once the news was life becoming Art, today with Almost Something Art once again becomes life.

'Which tour guide would you prefer?', asks the art-hotty at the counter. "tour guide?" "prefer?" I am intrigued. Multiple tour guides have been written to lead me through very different versions of the same show. On closer inspection it seems that some projects appear in every guide, some in just a few, some in none at all. What is the Art? What am I really meant to see. I guess in the end I have to come up with the solution myself.

A la carte: Appearances aren't to be trusted and Almost Something is never quite what it seems. Offered a variety of perspectives, we, the viewers are asked to piece together the reality of this show to our own liking.

Come check out this show, there are special events every weekend, it is going to be awesome...

I filmed another batch of video portraits, and hopefully figured out the compressions which make the videos watch-able on most computers. The whole 'conversation piece' part of the site has been updated with the better video files, so please let me know what you think.

Basically we are hibernating right now. We won an Honorable Mention at the Transmediale 2005, but they didn't have the money to get us to Berlin, so Miwa is making more lamps, and Marco is beefing up on the CS classes...

I was picked to be in a group show at the lab gallery. Even though it is in midtown... it seems to be a pretty cool place. The gallery is really small though so they only picked a photo. The show is about the sense of touch (stereognosis) and balance (proprioception). But the show is only up for a week :(

This was our latest collaborative project. We love working at Flux because they really allow us to experiment. We really pushed it with this one. Cellphone instruments!

see the description at Flux. or, of course our project page.

Flutter, is a new photo, video installation.

Miwa did a small food performance called 'Flakes' for the opening. She also the released of 72:44 an audio landscape CD