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The first major interactive work was entitled The Watch Detail (1990). Video images, sound and text that addressed the subject of time were explored interactively. This work employed Macintosh Hypercard media, that was used to control an interactive

LORNA 1979-1983 A.D. A.D. "A precondition to video is that it does not talk back. It absorbs, rather than reflects." Preliminary Notes, 1981 While video was like a reflection that did not talk back, interactive works were like a trick, two

The next interactive piece, DEEP CONTACT (1989), directly involves the body of the viewer/participant who were required to touch the computerscreen. Viewers choreograph their own encounters in the vista of voyeurism by actually putting their hand on

This piece was inspired by the paintings of Van Eyk and in particular the "Marriage of Arnofini". This piece uses reflection as a means of portraiture and reflected self portraiture. Though obscured and distanced, the artists reflection watches from

THE DOLLY CLONES Tilllie, The Telerobotic Doll 1995-1998 http://www. lynnhershman.com/tillie and CybeRoberta 1970-1998 http://www.lynnhershman.com/doll2/ These two telerobotic dolls share information and vie for images to

The Difference Engine #3 uses the architecture of the ZKM Media Museum as a 3D template and the visitors to the museum as the interface. It is an interactive, multi-user, sculpture about surveillance, voyeurism, digital absorption and spiritual

Autopoiesis, is a robotic sculpture installation commissioned by the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, Finland as part of Outoaly, the Alien Intelligence Exhibition curated by Erkki Huhtamo, 2000. It consists of fifteen robotic sound sculptures that

As you approach this piece a sensor turns a light on which projects the worms and tree forms onto the walls and ceiling. The tubefex worms which are the stars of this piece demonstrate a form of supra organization in which these single tubefex worms

The Cyber-Squeek series spoofs the emergence of machine intelligence, in which electronics integrated with life-like forms, have begun to squeak their first words; in their language. Through multiple sensors and switches they respond to human touch

Delicate Balance is an interactive robotic work designed to allow a fish to determine the direction that it moves along a wire, so it can explore it's environment beyond the limits of the tank. Bettas have excellent sight giving them the