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MEGAMEDIA and INTERACTIVITIES

• Waterways
  kinetic chemistry experiments, rearrangeable currents, artificial weather contraptions, and choreographed actions
  
  
• The Grafting Parlour
  synthetic bioworks: including green light bulbs, build-your-own bacteria sculptures, and micro-rainbow generators
  
  
• The Conversation Contrpation
  tin cups on strings, secrets told through megaphones, rewired telecommunications and typewriter musical instruments
  
  
• Earth's Biological Clock
  a data-driven creature responds to climate change: currently in development by the League's new creatures division
  
  
• The Childhood Machine
  a bicycle-driven megamedia contraption for returning to childhood and reversing civilization: created by the League in collaboration with the city of Trondheim in northern Norway: presented at Babel Art Space in Norway in August, 2007 and re.Sonance 2008
  
  
• The Dream Assembly Line
  interactive dream construction in collaboration with the city of Tábor, to take place at CESTA in the Czech Republic in June, 2008
  
  
• Really Real Estate™
  the League's LET"S MOVE campaign to vacate planet Earth and colonize outer space and sea, based on a warming planet and the expanding Bermuda Rectangle: unveiled at the 2007 Mutamorphosis Conference in Prague and exhibited at Four Degrees at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2008
  
  
• Mobile Timeline of a place called Rome
  a city-building project by Romans everywhere - namely, citizens of places called Rome all over the world: for The Eternal Tour in Rome, Italy in July, 2008
  
  
• Mathemetaphysics
  The League's Dr. L. Hernandez Gomez ponders questions of the universe based on tried and true allgebreic logic
  
  
• Finding Aurora
  an ongoing search pursued in collaboration with choreographer Emma Nordanfors, movement artist Carolina Bäckman and the world: presented at Tanzfabrik in Berlin in 2007, the Milkbar 2008 Live Film Festival and in Australia for Electrofringe 2008
  
  
• The Queen and the Gnome drawn by leaf-cutting ants and the genome of the fungus they cultivate and consume: currently in development with League researchers
  
  
• Command Z: visualizing undone history for the world the League’s catalog of undone acts and documentary of turning back time: exhibited at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, California:  March-May, 2007
  
  
• Meta-physical
  meta-physicals and diagnosis, introduction of the League's verbal narcotics and initial clinical studies; presented by NewTown at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California:  May, 2007
  
  
• Aether-sphere
  League scientists join Aether9 networked collaborators across the globe in inter-continental realtime storytelling and performance extravagandas; the resulting aether projects bridge narrative film and improvised video streams: global locations, 2007 and 2008
  
  
• A Live Diagram of the Human Condition 
  interactive performance developed by the League, with movement by dance company Blindsight and sound by George Cremaschi; presented at MilkBar 2007 International Live Film Festival, CounterPULSE in San Francisco:  February, 2007
  
  
• Blazar!
  study on matter and meaning; presented as an interactive participatory performance utilizing the League of Imaginary Scientists’ dupliporter for teleporting objects into a black hole; also on display, the League’s collection of black hole artifacts at The Office in Huntington Beach, California:  November – December, 2006
  
  
• Remote Tea Party
  real-time data interaction at California Institute of the Arts, in collaboration with graduate students, Shane Hazleton, Miwa Matreyek, Jeremy Schwartz, and Jihyun Song, one of whom continues to work with the League as Professor William T. Madmann:  September, 2006
  
  
• Dinner Party Series (N-Avatar; Avatar x; Alpha Zuppa)
  Live, interactive, telematic performance feast in collaboration with Melissa Ramos, Jasper Streit, Rhys Turner, and Francesca Veronesi at the TAFE Gallery in Newcastle, Australia; simultaneously at the University of London and at Performance Space in Sydney, Australia:  May and September, 2006
  
  
• Reworld
  Live, interactive multimedia theater presenting interaction as a model for ecological causation, performed by Jamie Harrison and Ruth Sergel; developed and presented through the Troika Ranch workshops on interactive software, at 3-Legged Dog in New York:  July, 2005
  
  
  DIAGRAMS of
  IMAGINARY SCIENCE
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• Climate Change is Happening
  collaborative video diagram examining global warming, created and presented in conjunction with artists at Electrofringe’s Sight/Sound/Site workshop in Newcastle, Australia:  March, 2006
  
  
• H2O
  video installation of the micro-universe of a water molecule: exhibited at Museión in Bogotá, Colombia in celebration of the World Year of Physics, LKV in Norway, and the University of La Verne Harris Gallery in 2005, and the University of Newcastle in Australia in 2006
  
  
• Beneath the North Sea
  Interactive, immersive digital video installation combining microbiology and geopolitics at Gallery Blunk in Trondheim, Norway:  February, 2005
  
  
• Metathesis
  Alteration of an existing physical network – the outdoor lighting system – as a nervous system at the University of California, San Diego for Powering Up / Powering Down in 2004
  
  
• Birdcalls
  audio guide and interactivity for spotting the concrete dove while bird watching along the paved LA River: part of River Alchemy, an Arroyo Arts installation event in 2002