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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

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.

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 (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

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

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

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

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