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  • Royal Road - video
    In 1993 a new videodisc-based version of Going to the Heart of the Centre of The Garden of Delights (1986) was made. No longer related to a particular architectural context, the viewer walks along a path marked by blue lights towards a large video
  • Very Nervous System -
    Very Nervous System is the third generation of interactive sound installations which Rokeby has created. In these systems, video cameras, image processors, computers, synthesizers and a sound system are used to create a space in which the movements
  • Otocky -
    Designed by popular Japanese multimedia artist Toshio Iwai, "Otokki" or Otocky (which is the appropriate spelling that appears on the game's main title screen) was released for the Famicom Disk System in 1987. Otocky may be best described as a
  • RC Robot
    In 1986 Kac worked with radio-controlled telerobotics in the context of the exhibition "Brasil High Tech", realized at the Centro Empresarial Rio, in Rio de Janeiro. Kac used a 7-feet tall anthropomorphic robot (left) as a host who conversed with
  • Plasm: A Fish Sample -
    The initial installation in the Plasm series, this piece was inspired by Allen Kay's talk on artificial life forms and simulated ecologies at SIGGRAPH the preceding year. A real-world living room setting, complete with sofa, coffee table,
  • Body Language -
    Body Language represents the second generation of interactive sound installations Rokeby created. The installation used three hand-built low-resolution (8x8 pixels) video cameras (see image above) to observe a 5 metre by 5 metre space. The images
  • Digital video installation 1 monitor colour, silent An installation using one monitor, one live computer feed (simulating in realtime the process of genetic recombinance), one rock with crystals growing over it and a tank with live fish.
  • In 1983 artists Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz began refining a concept for a telecollaborative network connecting informal public multimedia communications venues. The original Electronic Cafe Network was to be the artists offering as a
  • Reflexions - video
    His first interactive sound installation. Construction of some very bulky 8 x 8 pixel video cameras, connected then to a wire-wrapped card in the Apple ][ which digitized the images, and wrote a program for the Apple ][ which controlled a Korg MS-20
  • The event took place in two adjacent rooms. In the first Shusaku gave a Buto performance on the edge of a raised circular steel construction within which the image of a black bull was painted on the white floor. A video camera pointed at this