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Note from Eduardo Kac: "Please note that it is impossible to convey the readerly interactivity and the spatiotemporal qualities of these pieces on a web page. The documentary images below serve as an introduction to this work. Six different points of...

Escracho is an artist's book conceived, designed, and produced by Eduardo Kac in 1983 in Rio de Janeiro. It includes contributions from artists and writers from several countries in a variety of forms (visual poetry, essay, cartoon, collage, graphic...

Points of View III - A Three Dimensional Story explored the notion of an open artwork by inviting sixteen people to make narrative contributions which were then interactively linked to the visual scenography so that the viewer could navigate between...

Sym-Ulations allows participants to explore the asymmetry of their own faces.It also allows them to use their own face to create humorous impossible faces.

User Interaction:
The user holds a "Setup" button and sees a mirror image of his face on...

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...

Digital video installation
1 monitor
colour, silent

An installation using one monitor, one live computer feed (simulating in realtime the process of genetic recombinance), one rock with crystals growing over it and a tank with live fish....

Computer generated large scale ink plots
Indian Ink on Fabiano 300 gsm paper
These works were produced using a large scale Interact IV flat bed plotter.

A set of abstract images, each measuring 200 x 200 cms.
The works were produced by...

It records choreographies of moving bodies in real space, generating drawings on the electronic screen by different groupings of moving figures. The scenes are recorded by cameras in shots from above and at a distance, transforming the moving bodies...

Water Catalogue Linear Video 1984 1984, 27:30 min, color, sound A lyrical fusion of hypnotic images, original music and spoken narrative text, The Water Catalogue is a meditation on the power and poetry of water. In this impressionistic "video...