His past projects include The Breathing Wall with Kate Pullinger and Stefan Schemat, a digital novel that responds to the reader's breathing rate; and Animalamina, a collection of interactive poetry for children.

http://www.babel.ca/em - PC or MAC, Flash 6+

Make your own video monsters - 'Eisenstein's Monster' is a participatory video piece, a tongue-in-cheek coupling of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and the montage theories of Sergei Eisenstein.
In this piece the participant is invited to create life with the press of a button, then shape and twist their creatures to their whim. Biological life is transformed through the digital (in this case, digital video and Flash) and back through choices of the biological user to become new biodigital lifeforms.
While the piece is intended to be light-hearted, our collective fear of science playing God lurks here, as it did in Shelley's original.

Exhibited in:
• Pixel Pops, http://www.poppingpixel.org , City Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (October 2005)
• Electrofringe 2005, http://www.electrofringe.net/webart.htm , Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (September - October 2005)
• (with WB05) at Refresh!, First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Banff, Canada (September - October 2005)
• INCUBA, 1st Festival of Electronic Arts, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina (September 2005)
• Playzone, Samsung Media Lounge, Seoul Net Festival 2005, Seoul, Korea (25 August - 8 September 2005)
• International Media Art Festival, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia (August 2005)
• Perspective < i, Seoul Net Festival 2005, Seoul, Korea, http://www.senef.net (July - September 2005)
• Thailand New Media Arts Festival 2005 (MAF05_JUNE), http://culturebase.org/home/thailand/MAF05 (June 2005)
• WB05- The Web Biennial 2005, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey (from May 2005)
• EXTASY - The Final Show, JavaMuseum, http://www.javamuseum.org/2005/final (from April 2005)
• with [R][R][F] 2005 --->XP in Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (April 2005)
• BathHouse: The Contagion Issue, Vol. 3, No. 1, http://www.emich.edu/studentorgs/bhouse (March 2005)
• Thailand New Media Arts Festival 2005 (MAF05_FEB), Bangkok, Thailand (February 2005)
• Fraenkelstein Salon - Project 142, London, UK (February 2005)
• Museum of the Essential And Beyond That, http://arteonline.arq.br , Brazil (February 2005)
• Fraenkelstein Art Projects, Espaço durex, Sala verde da Casa de Cultura Humanista and Casa do Mini, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Espaço branco do Olho, Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil (November 2004)
• shortlisted for Third Place Award by Stefan Lindfors, Third Place Gallery, Sweden, http://www.thirdplacegallery.org (November 2004)

http://www.391.org/37 - PC or MAC, Flash 6+

concept/design/programming: babel
poetry: serkan isin, derya vural, deniz tuncel, baris cetinkol, asli serin, abraham abulafia, keith martin, escha romain

Exhibited at:

• Electrofringe 2005, http://www.electrofringe.net/webart.htm , Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (September - October 2005)
• International Media Art Festival, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia (August 2005)
• Prog:ME, http://www.progme.org, 1st Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 2005)

"Imagine a day when any living thing can be identified accurately and rapidly to the species level using a hand-held device the size of a cellular phone. A day when the biodiversity of an entire nation can be inventoried and monitored... thanks to an ambitious effort by a growing consortium of scientists, it is poised to become reality. The method that will enable this advance is 'DNA barcoding', an approach that employs a small fragment of DNA, a portion of a single gene, to provide a unique identifier - a 'DNA barcode' - for each living species on Earth."
- Barcode of Life,

http://www.barcodinglife.org/static/background/rationale.html

One of the most important components of the 'Barcode of Life' initiative is the construction of a public reference library of species identifiers which could be used to assign unknown specimens to known species. This database will lead to the 'Life Barcoder', linking biological identification to developments in DNA sequencing, electronics and information science.

In order to construct the database, DNA barcode data must first be obtained from all known species. Perhaps it is no surprise then that barcodes - designed to tag physical objects with information in order to be processed by computers - are now being extended to humans in the form of 'bio-barcodes' that can be implanted or injected. Despite the ethical concerns about this surreptitious physical integration of the digital into the biological, a number of companies are rushing to patent human bar code systems in a market already estimated to be worth $100 billion.

Both these developments are at the root of Zinhar - a representation of a future handheld bioscanner that is broken and incomplete, but can be fixed by the user in order to complete its scan for life.

How Did I Get Here? Episode 1 - China

http://www.inanimatealice.com/episode1/ - PC or MAC, Flash 6+

The first episode of 'How Did I Get Here?' appears on the website of Sensory Perspective ( http://www.sensoryperspective.com ), the developer of the Electrosmog Detector which spotlights the potentially harmful pollution resulting from wireless communications. The story, written by Kate Pullinger and babel, depicts the life of Alice, a young girl growing up in the early years of the 21st century, and will be told over 10 multimedia episodes spanning her life from childhood through to her twenties.

Visit Alice's blog at http://www.inanimatealice.com ,
or view the episode directly at http://www.inanimatealice.com/episode1.html