Project Number

177

Title

Dancing Fire and Water

Description

Live networked art installation of Norway's Jostedal glacier and Japan's Owakudani volcano.

Contact

Vigdis Holen

Affiliation

Vig's Kunstlab

Address

Firdavegen 22 
68960 Sandne, Norway

E-mail

vigdis@axp1.vestdata.no

WWW

Year

1997

Reference

SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

"Dancing Fire and Water is an artistic expression of sounds and images of two of the earths great energies: Norway's Jostedal glacier and Japan's Owakudani volcano." 
 
"It is an encounter between fire and water, two of the four fundamental elements in the universe. Live communication via ISDN is maintained between Jostedalsbreen, a growing glacier; Owakudani, an active volcano in Japan's Hakone; and SIGGRAPH 97 in Los Angeles."

Sight

remote networked ISDN video

Sound

amplified sound

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

5 - Established, Finished

Intent

3 - Application (expression, enabler)

Primary

307 - art / commentary

Secondary

304 - distributed interaction

Remarks

 


Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, Copyright © 2002 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Contact us: etech-map@siggraph.org