If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is a public artwork on movement, time, and arrival, inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1979 novel Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore. A beam of 24 monitors streams live CCTV feeds from around the world, each screen marking one hour in a continuous 24-hour cycle. As travelers walk its length, they journey the world through live CCTV views. Software filters each feed for public-friendly imagery, turning surveillance into an ever-changing poem of presence, distance, and time.
I Fantasmi Delle Sorelle di Morandi (The Ghosts of Morandi's Sisters)
Morandi’s Sisters is a public artwork inspired by Giorgio Morandi’s still lifes, his relationship with his sisters, and Bologna’s Renaissance architecture. Three human-scale lathed vessels represent the sisters. Placed behind a wall with cutouts, they align from a precise viewpoint to appear floating, creating the illusion of a Morandi painting in space.
Homage to Naum Gabo
Inspired by Naum Gabo’s Rotterdam constructivist sculpture and Anthony Caro’s The Window, 1966–67, titled Naum. this lightweight 60-foot arch rises like a slender beacon, its dark frame and tension cables suspending a titanium mirror that catches light, shadow, sky, and passing bodies in a constantly changing vertical reflection. Its frame houses double layers of perforated metal screens that created light interference patterns.
I Remember the God Talk — spoken word poem by Carl Hancock Rux
The God Talk is an immersive installation by Carl Hancock Rux, Eli Kuslansky, and Hali Weiss exploring humanity’s paradoxical relationship with God. Spoken word, moving imagery, and a luminous column animate shadow, silence, and space. A programmable LED and digital winch sync light with poem and image, creating a contemplative environment that invites reflection beyond the boundaries of organized religion.
The Thin Blue Line
Thin Blue Line is an art installation that moves between two states: a spatial environment articulated through distinct planes of light and color, and their compression into a single blue line. The title draws on the phrase in its association with policing, where the line suggests a severe boundary between order and chaos. Here, that boundary is translated into perceptual and spatial terms. Separation is first unfolded across the room as a fully structured field, then tightened into its most concentrated and exact form. The work treats the line not simply as an image, but as a condition: a hard threshold where atmosphere becomes edge, extension becomes compression, and difference resolves into stark definition.
The Institute Presents: Neurosociety
For Pace Art + Technology in Menlo Park, California, Eli Kuslansky led Unified Field’s creative collaboration with David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar on The Institute Presents: Neurosociety, an immersive four-room performance shaped by neuroscience experiments. Visitors became participants, confronting bias, perception, and moral decision-making. Kuslansky and Unified Field translated the project’s vision into interfaces, systems, and responsive technologies that enabled iteration, engagement, and dynamic real-time reflection. The Institute Presents: Neurosociety was the pilot for David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar’s Theater of the Mind.
