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  • 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
  • Universal Translator -
    Universal Translator is an interactive sound and video work focussed on the sound hardware of the human body. The interface for this work is a microphone with a micro video camera embedded in its head so that the camera looks directly at the
  • Digital Mudra -
    "Digital Mudra" begins with a collection of photographs from Rapoport's interactive performance entitled Biorhythm (1983). Participants, to test their own evaluation of their biorhythm condition against a computer assessment of their
  • The Mechanic of Emotions is an art opera in 15+ parts each part can be a statement, an event, an installation, an object, a concert, a performance, a web site, a business... the Mechanics of Emotions (M-E) try not to tell the story of the
  • International Feel -
    "International Feel" was David Rokeby re-installation of his earlier work "Body Language." It took place in the context of the Strategic Arts Initiative 2.0, a re-installation of the seminal 1986 telepresence exhibition "Strategic Arts Initiative"
  • Mutatis mutandis -
    "Mutatis mutandis" is an interactive computerised installation. It’s hypermedia project realised from digitalized video images and sounds. It addresses issues concerning poetry and philosophy, and explores the language of interact ivity in the
  • A 7-minute, single-channel digital videopoem (edition of 5). This work takes language into a domain of trance where the subtle dissolution and reconfiguration of verbal particles is charged with a feeling that is at once calm and tense.
  • Silence -
    From the entrance into the site, the announcement “Noise = absence of language = silence” warns us that the limits of our understanding will be scrambled and the paths followed will be flavoured with the sweet absurdity of surrealism. Then a thin
  • Akousmaflore is an interactive installation, a small garden composed of living musical plants, which react to gentle contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact by producing a specific sound. The plant «language» or song occurs through
  • "This project unfolded around an anti-NATO militarism web portal that was founded in August 2001 and ran until late 2006. The website gained international popularity over the years through covering news about NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe,