benjamin
GROSSER

How is our shift into online social spaces changing protocols of looking? What happens when we can look all we want without notice?

Artificially inflates your Facebook notification numbers when they are really zero. What do these icons want?

An artificially intelligent machine that considers what it hears as it paints its own body of work.

An automated query machine that depersonalizes my web activity by hiding within a sea of random noise.

This work explores issues of speed, editing, and sound in today's reality TV programming. Is 'reality' media altering non-mediated reality?

If you don't speak does anyone see you? What happens if we can see conversation dynamics—will it change the conversation?

Pixels, the fundamental unit of digital images, are all the same size and shape. What happens if you change that?

Looks at the relationships between communications technology, management, money, and work.

Experimental music and theater in response to the killing of an unarmed child by the police.

Critical essay exploring a collection of nuclear weapons photographs.

Original digital sound synthesis software and the compositions for tape and tape/instrument that use it.

Photography project about how generally powerless citizens attempt to influence their government in the face of war.

A selection of early paintings that reflect my interests of the time in the areas of form, material, and the works of other artists.

How a small group of Urbana
women performed a daring and surprising act of protest against the Iraq war.

Photography about how a community came together to to act city-wide against the coming war in Iraq.

Computer music compositions created using existing recordings as source material, and simple cut/paste and mix operations.

Automated production of artificial bone implants as developed by a team of scientists, engineers, and artists.

This photography project documents two gay rights actions in Urbana, IL: The Case of Lynn Sprout, and the Gay Marriage Rally of 2004.

Music compositions for solo instruments and small to medium chamber ensembles.

What does it sound like when the trumpet is played lower than the trombone? Works I've written and performed for low trumpet.

Free information I've authored for people interested in taking on their own building/repair projects and in saving hundreds of dollars.

Visualization of the molecular level during an annealing process for transistors. Screened at SIGGRAPH '97 Computer Animnation Festival.

Web-based control of a $500,000 microscope, and a full-resolution simulator of the same machine.