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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

A large scale installation which included a 20 foot screen in portrait displaying a psychiatrist under hypnosis describing an environment, a representation of which was then constructed in two spaces beyond the screen. The work focused on the

A computer installation desigend to create communication between several computers. A network created an on going creative process between the computers surrounding the viewer with light and sound. The process would continue to change as the

THE MEADOW explores and manifests the metaphorical space which lies between the 'simulated' and the 'real' - a space to which artists are inevitably drawn. Ambiguity and irony also share this space, and it is here that new

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

Echoing Narcissus is an interactive sound-sculpture in the form of a well, covered in copper sheet and printed circuit boards. It is a re-telling of Ovid's myth of Narcissus and Echo. All sounds made in the proximity of the sculpture are

As the Y2K media frenzy and millennium celebrations reached a fever pitch in late 1999, the finishing touches were being put on the design of one of the most ambitious VRML projects on the internet today. With the assistance of modellers, animators

Measure is a variation of the Very Nervous System, using an extremely simple and regular sound source, a ticking clock. (source: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/measure.html)

Not only does god play dice... but he sometimes throws them where they can't be seen - Stephen Hawking THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN is an interactive videodisc installation dealing with gambling and spirituality, twin distillates of our

Well, things don't always turn out the way you plan - this project certainly didn't. I learned a couple of things: 1/ Magnetic core memory is very hard to find. 2/ Most people who are interested in magnetic core memory are very