Data derived from near-infrared imaging (NIRI) was used in 2004 to create this visualization of the effect of globalization over time

a digital documentation of archaelogical sites, artifacts, and cultural relics into a virtual museum.

a real-time location-based mobile gaming platform

Summary: Contrary to much of the hype that posits cyberspace as the uncontested domain of rugged individualists, computer networks and traffic exhibit deeply social and political roots. The Internet is neither inherently oppressive nor automatically emancipatory; it is a terrain of contested philosophies and politics. After a brief review of the politics of electronic knowledge, we discuss the ways in which the Internet can be harnessed for counterhegemonic (antiestablishment) political ends. We focus on progressive uses, including the confrontation of nomadic power and rhizomic power structures, in which the local becomes the global. We also offer an encapsulation of right-wing uses. Throughout, we see cyberactivism as a necessary, but not sufficient, complement to real-world struggles on behalf of the disempowered.

This is a cool video from research scientist Beverly Harrison and company working on the OASIS (Object-Aware Situated Interactive System) project at Intel Labs. They recently gave a demo of the project at CES this year featuring a Kinect style camera and projector. Also, shows a collection of artists working on augmented engineering.

kinetic projection onto body surfaces

This is exactly what the "Dream of Flows" tries to combine: physical, local urban dynamics with virtual network flows. Bringing together a community with remotes which signal electromagnetic fields in the floating object, allows people to chose a track and brings them all together as a community, even with the unknowing of how the object will respond to hundreds of people interacting with it,