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Telegarden

Author: Ken Goldberg
Year: 1996 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

The exhibits included Telegarden by Ken Goldberg, in which users can tend a physical garden remotely through a web site robot;

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Info: The Telegarden is an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm. The Telegarden was developed at the University of Southern California and went online in June 1995. In its first year, over 9000 members helped cultivate. In September 1996, the Telegarden was moved to the lobby of the Ars Electronica Center in Austria, where it remained online 24 hours a day until it was decommisioned after 9 years in August 2004.
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Brain Opera

Author: Tod Machover
Year: 1996 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

Brain Opera by Ted [sic] Machover, in which the audience participates in the final composition of the music;

File type: video
Info: An original, interactive musical experience that included contributions from both on-line participants and live audiences. It toured Europe, Asia, the United States and South America from 1996 to 1998 and was permanently installed at Vienna's House of Music in the spring of 2000.
Original Url: https://vimeo.com/7900562
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Liquid Cities

Author: Michel Redolfi
Year: 1996 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

Michael [sic] Redolfi's Liquid Cities, in which users actually swim in a pool and their movements affect the sound installations that they hear under the water.

File type: video
Info: Project took place in a pulic indoor swimming pool, during Ars Electronica 1996. Liquid Cities is a series of sound installations in which swimming-pools are transformed into three-dimensional, fluid and interactive spaces. The participants moving in the medium of weightlessness explore a transparent city which exists only via the sounds they make.
Original Url: https://vimeo.com/7900625
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