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  • TRIAD HyperDance -
    TRIAD HyperDance is an interactive art work on the net, containing a dance work as hypervideo and an interactive choreography. The work can be seen at the url address http://triad.kiasma.fng.fi and at the http://ctheory.concordia.ca. The TRIAD
  • The Telegarden -
    The TeleGarden is an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm.
  • Ouija -
    Ken Goldberg is one of the pioneers of telematic works, and "Ouija 2000" is not only a playful stab at the idea of global mind through the nostalgia of a Ouija board, it introduces important elements of real-time collaboration. "Ouija 2000"
  • 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
  • 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
  • Invisible Cantilever -
    This project considers the distance between the viewer and what is being viewed. How does technology alter our perceptions of distance, scale, and structure? Technologies for viewing continue to evolve, from the camera obscura to the telescope to
  • Data Dentata -
    The Data Dentata offers an elementary means of telecommunication. The user places his or her hand into an electromechanical device containing a binary switch that allows the user to transmit and receive one bit of information transmitted via digital