Mori

Randall Packer

Mori , ongoing
Co-workers & Funding
Documents
Description
Sound-Installation
"Mori" is an Internet-based earthwork that engages the earth as a living medium. In this installation, 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. The title links the Japanese term for "forest-sanctuary" with the Latin "reminder of mortality." 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. (source: http://www.zakros.com/projects/mori/index.html)
Keywords
  • genres
    • sound art
      • sound installations
  • subjects
    • Nature and Environment
      • earth
      • geology
    • Technology and Innovation
      • telematics
Technology & Material