Project Number
- 116
Title
- The Tele-Garden: An InterActive Art Installation on the WWW
Description
- Interactive community gardening through the World Wide Web.
Contact
- Ken Goldberg
Affiliation
- University of Southern California
Address
- Ken Goldberg
- +1.213.740.9080
- Joseph Santarromana
- +1.213.664.1245
- +1.213.740.9080
- goldberg@usc.edu, Joes18790@aol.com
WWW
- http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/
Year
- 1995
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "This tele-robotic project allows World Wide Web users to view and interact with a garden filled with living plants. Users can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm."
- "The site is intended to evolve over a period of months. Anyone can view the site; the rights to plant and water are granted to anyone willing to make his or her email address known to other members. Events will be recorded in logs so that members can note progress and exchange unsolicited advice."
- "This project explores a post-nomadic motif, where planing and agriculture require spatial and temporal continuity. Our objective is to illuminate what Neil Postman calls the 'ecological effects of media' [Technopoly, 1994]."
Sight
- graphics workstation, WWW browser, Tele-Garden installation
Sound
Touch
- Tele-Garden robotic tender
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 305 - community / society
Secondary
- 204 - telepresence
Remarks
- Remote, robotic collaboration.
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