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A work to lead spectator to a position of a performer. An installation for an exhibition "De-Genderism" at Setagaya Museum, Japan. When you enter the semicircle room (devided into two rooms by a screen), you are asked whether to enter with your

In "inter / face" Rokeby continues his exploration of the relationship between the abstract world of language and the physical world of body. The work uses the expressions on the viewer's face as an interface to a responsive virtual world built

Two large, transparent plastic sheets and a device that gradually sucks the air out from between them leave the body (in this case the artist himself) vacuum-packed and vertically suspended. The transparent tube inserted between the two surfaces

FLOOR is an interactive interface designed to transfer data of strength and movement in the human-human relation and the human-space time relation. The mode of agencying the FlOOR interface is very simple: you step on one of the two ends of the

excerpt from an Interview with the Thing (http://epidemic.ws/downJones_press/THE_THING_Interview.htm): Q: Your latest project, downJones [sendMail], is a demo of a virus for webmail sofware that slips short phrases into the body of any e-mail. In

Digital prints. Magical metamorphoses of the past are the genetic experiments of today ... as technology gives us powers earlier reserved for the gods. Through the eye of the camera I seek this transformation from the human to the numinous, from the

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

To create this 5-channel video sculpture the artist searched for abstract forms and movements of the human body that trigger powerful associations with the processes of life and death, transforming images of "innocent" body parts into fetishistic

"Marionettes" is a 24 minutes long computer animation about collapse. Marionettes are controlled by strings. If there is no string, they collapse. Nobody animates the body. If nobody animates the body, it will be animated by natural forces. Mass.

In Rigid Waves, the acoustic mirroring of Narcissus and Echo is transformed into a visual form. Approaching the mirror, the viewer is confronted with a reflection that does not correspond to normal perception. Only an illusionary visual echo of