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  • Gallery of Motions -
    A sculpture garden and gallery where even the plants and buildings move, with tours conducted by an animated guide. The garden is comprised of exhibits including kinetic objects based on the Philippine wine dance and three-dimensional harmonic
  • Fugitive -
    Fugitive is an interactive artwork which (via a machine vision system) interprets gross bodily movement as an indicator of "mood". The user moves through an impressionistic visual experience based in a digital video database. The question of
  • Time-accelerated PaintingArtist: Jaron LanierComment:
  • This CAVE-based interactive and immersive installation explores the potential of the world-wide web as interactive and immersice data and information medium. Today information on the Internet is presented in a standard fashion, as defined by the
  • Dislocation of Intimacy is a net-based installation by Ken Goldberg and Bob Farzin that explores the delicate relationship between the immediate and the mediated. The installation includes a sealed black steel box in our studio that is accessible
  • Legal Tender -
    Legal Tender (1996) was the first Internet telerobotic laboratory. Visitors to www.counterfeit.org were presented with a pair of US$100 bills, one real the other counterfeit. Users could perform experiments on the bills by registering with an
  • Mercury Project combined robotics and archaeology in an interactive art installation. To our knowledge, the Mercury Project was the first system that allowed WWW users to remotely view and alter the real world via tele-robotics. Users excavated
  • Mori -
    In Mori, the immediacy of the telematic embrace between earth and visitor questions the authenticity of mediated experience in the context of chance, human fragility, and geological endurance. Mori engages the earth as a living medium. Minute
  • Ballet Mori - video
    To commemorate the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Ballet Mori engaged the Earth as a living medium and a conductor for dance. In this improvisational performance, SF Ballet Principal Dancer Muriel Maffre responded to a musical composition modulated
  • The Tele-Actor -
    We are studying network-based systems that allow groups of users to "explore" live remote environments such as a rainforest, biotechnology lab, political rally, or rock concert. The "Tele-Actor" is a skilled human with cameras and microphones