Archive Search

Legal Tender (1996) was the first Internet telerobotic laboratory. Visitors to www.counterfeit.org were presented with a pair of US$100 bills, one real the other counterfeit. Users could perform experiments on the bills by registering with an email...

Mercury Project combined robotics and archaeology in an interactive art installation. To our knowledge, the Mercury Project was the first system that allowed WWW users to remotely view and alter the real world via tele-robotics. Users excavated...

In Mori, the immediacy of the telematic embrace between earth and visitor questions the authenticity of mediated experience in the context of chance, human fragility, and geological endurance.

Mori engages the earth as a living medium. Minute...

To commemorate the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Ballet Mori engaged the Earth as a living medium and a conductor for dance. In this improvisational performance, SF Ballet Principal Dancer Muriel Maffre responded to a musical composition modulated...

We are studying network-based systems that allow groups of users to "explore" live remote environments such as a rainforest, biotechnology lab, political rally, or rock concert.

The "Tele-Actor" is a skilled human with cameras and microphones...

This project considers the distance between the viewer and what is being viewed. How does technology alter our perceptions of distance, scale, and structure? Technologies for viewing continue to evolve, from the camera obscura to the telescope to the...

The installation included a custom-designed robotic painting machine, large hand-painted images, and several images painted with the robot. All images were from events surrounding the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct between 1906-13.

The Data Dentata offers an elementary means of telecommunication. The user places his or her hand into an electromechanical device containing a binary switch that allows the user to transmit and receive one bit of information transmitted via digital...

Throughout the 5-day show, the robot arm drew world maps taken from the time of Columbus up through World War II. The title refers to the 1493 proclamation by Pope Alexander VI that divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.

Quarxs was one of the earliest computer animated series (3D Computer graphics, 12 films on total of three minutes each). Persiflage of science shows on TV, playful and fantastic exploration of digital graphics and questioning the order of things in...