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Teleporting an Unknown State
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Source: Eduardo Kac
Eduardo Kac
Teleporting an Unknown State
,
1994
–
1996
http://www.ekac.org/telepsim/telep.html
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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
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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.
Exhibitions & Events
Teleporting An Unknown State
2002
Teleporting An Unknown State
2001
Teleporting an Unknown State
2001
Teleporting An Unknown State
1998
Teleporting An Unknown State
1996
Bibliography
Kac, Eduardo
.
»GFP Bunny.«
Kunstforum
158 (January-March 2002): 46-57.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Gravitropism: Art and the Joys of Levitation.«
In
I Leviate, What´s Next
, edited by Aleksandra Kostic, 88-97. Maribor, SL: Kibla, 2001.
Becker, Carol
.
»GFP Bunny.«
Art Journal
59, no. 3 (Fall 2000).
Becker, Carol
.
»GFP Bunny.«
Art Journal
59, no. 3 (Fall 2000).
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Telepresence Art and Net Ecology.«
In
The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology on the Internet
, edited by Ken GoldbergCambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Telepresence Art and Net Ecology.«
In
The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology on the Internet
, edited by Ken GoldbergCambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Beyond the Screen: New Directions in Interactive Art.«
Blimp: Film Magazine
40 (1999): 49-54.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Negotiating Meaning: The Dialogic Imagination in Electronic Art.«
In
Proceedings of Computers in Art and Design Education Conference
, edited by UK University of TeessideTeeside, UK: 1999.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Genesis.«
In
Ars Electronica 1999: LifeScience
, edited by Gerfried Stocker and Christine SchöpfWien, New York: Springer Verlag, 1999.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Novos Rumos na Arte Interativa.«
Veredas
3, no. 32 (August 1998): 12-15.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Live from Mars.«
Leonardo
31, no. 1 (1998): 1-2.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Live from Mars.«
Leonardo
31, no. 1 (1998): 1-2.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Origin and Development of Robotic Art.«
Art Journal
56, no. 3 (1997): 60-67.
Kac, Eduardo
.
»Origin and Development of Robotic Art.«
Art Journal
56, no. 3 (1997): 60-67.