Teleporting an Unknown State

Eduardo Kac
Source: Eduardo Kac

Eduardo Kac

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Description
The installation Teleporting An Unknown State creates the experience of the Internet as a life-supporting system. In a very dark room a pedestal with earth serves as a nursery for a single seed. Through a video projector suspended above and facing the pedestal, remote participants send light via the Internet to enable this seed to photosynthesize and grow in total darkness.

http://www.ekac.org/telepsim/telep.html
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • interactive
    • projected
  • genres
    • installations
      • interactive installations
  • subjects
    • Media and Communication
      • Internet
Technology & Material
Display
This piece operates a dramatic reversal of the regulated unidirectional model imposed by broadcasting standards and the communications industry. Rather than transmitting a specific message from one point to many passive receivers, "Teleporting an Unknown State" creates a new situation in which several individuals in remote countries transmit light to a single point in the gallery space. The ethics of Internet ecology and social network survival is made evident in a distributed and collaborative effort. During the show, photosynthesis depends on remote collective action. Birth, growth, and death on the Internet form a horizon of possibilities that unfolds as participants dynamically contribute to the work. Collaborative action and responsibility through the network are essential for the survival of the organism.
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