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 We have been working together since 1992 and are
committed to collaboration and its positive influence for artistic
practice. Much of our work is concerned with
temporality, perceptions of history, place, identity and the value
of life. The desire to communicate or connect with people or other
creatures in spite of physical and cultural limitations is an area we
are always investigating.
Our installations are mixed-media and often combine traditional and electronic media. In 1996, we received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for experimental art (the last of its kind). One of our first projects together was the outcome of a Summer Sound Residency at The Lab in San Francisco, California, USA, from which we expanded our interest to incorporate sound into our work and as a result, we are on good terms with the Rose Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco, USA. We are interested in the use of telecommunications technology for art and have ventured to create art work that uses telephones, voicemail systems and more recently, Web-based projects. Our art projects for the phone and the Web are ideally suited for exploring issues about public vs. private space and interactivity. Two articles about our work and the artistic potential of the telephone have been published in Leonardo, issue 31:4, 1998 and another in Public Culture, 10:3, 1998, respectively.
We have lived in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates since 2003, so expect our work to change from this experience. |