Mori

Ken Goldberg

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Co-workers & Funding
randall packer, gregory kuhn, and wojciech matusik
berkeley, california, usa (1999)
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Description
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 movements of the Hayward Fault in California are detected by a seismograph, converted to digital signals, and transmitted continuously via the Internet to the installation. Inside the entry curtain, visitors follow a fiber optic cable to the center of the resonating enclosure, where a portal through the floor frames the installation`s focal point. The live seismic data stream drives an embedded visual display and immersive low-frequency sounds, which echo the unpredictable fluctuations of the earth`s movement.

http://memento.ieor.berkeley.edu/seismo.html
Keywords
  • genres
    • installations
      • interactive installations
    • net art
    • sound art
      • sound installations
  • subjects
    • Nature and Environment
      • earth
      • geology
    • Technology and Innovation
      • telematics
Technology & Material
Exhibitions & Events
Mori
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