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  • 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
  • Very Nervous System -
    ... body but that implies a level of control which Rokeby is not particularly interested in. He is interested in creating a complex and...
  • ... which are emerging between feminism, technology and art. Two major influences when I was growing up were time which I...
  • Echoing Narcissus -
    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
  • Measure -
    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)
  • HAIR SALON TV was the first installation in a series juxtaposing technological icons of the 1950's (associated with women) and video imagery on issues which have been shaped and distorted by electronic communications technologies. In HAIR SALON
  • WRINGER/WASHER TV is a pink, white and chrome wringer washer which has a colour monitor fitted in the bottom of the wash tub facing up. This installation deals with the issue of abortion in Canada, interspersing opinions and arguments with video
  • Swarm
    ... by the visitors who interact with the body and gestures disarticulating or promoting connective configurations. (source:...
  • ... observe the mirror and disappear when the visitor moves. The artwork pushes the perception of the own image as the other himself...
  • Watch -
    ...Construction of an artificial perception systems, electronic systems that are able to see. Usually, the actual images are seen only by the...