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Ben is an installation artist, visual performer and programmer. He works
in an open-source context and makes all the software he develops, that
is of general use, available under the GPL. His installations create
content live and on the fly in response to the work's sensed
environment.  These works may involve interaction from the audience as a
part of the environment, or the work may simply respond to the context
in which it exists.  Ben is a structural thinker and imagines his work
as the production of media architectures. Physical modelling, chaos,
feedback systems and evolutionary algorithms have been used to inform
and and engage in his creative process. Ben is the author of  the
pixelTANGO visual performance software funded by the Société des arts
technologues. Ben is currently collaborating with architect Donna Marie
Vakalis creating an interactive architectural installation made possible
by the Canada Council for the Arts. Ben has also received a travel grant
from the Canada Council for the Arts to participate in the pixelACHE
festival in Helsinki, Finland in April 2005. Ben has presented work in
Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Vancouver, Seattle, Helsinki and Barcelona.

Donna is completing her third year of professional Masters work in Architecture, Donna brings a strong and varied background in design, complemented with statistical analysis and computer programming courses. She has been selected to exhibit work from urban studies in China and a range of architecture projects.in Toronto,  and  has collaborated on installations for shows in Canada and the U.S. Recently, Donna was awarded travel grants for work abroad. 

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