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BICYCLE TV is a rider controlled real-time video tour of a scenic landscape in the Canadian countryside. This interactive installation consists of a 1950's style bicycle with a colour monitor (mounted in front of the bicycle facing the

DAS IST MEINE NEUE FREUNDIN This installation explores one example of the cyberfeminist protagonist: Lara Croft in the computer game 'Tomb Raider.' This mediawork is comprised of several elements: German poster advertising for the game,

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

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 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

This interactive video installation is a collaboration between myself and Camille Turner. This mediawork is an exploration of the sex, beauty and racial myths which are encountered by a young black Canadian woman and the various conflicting message

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

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 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)

Interactive installation showing the motion of a swarm of agents over a 2D or 3D lattice. The project is focussed on the connections dynamically created by the agents with their neighbours in a game of attraction, separation, alignment, obstacle