Project
Paradise is a telepresence installation that enables two separated
users to remotely interact with each other via a cyborg "Adam" or "Eve"
within a remote "paradise". Each participant may control the body of a
cyborg to engage in interaction with the other isolated user.
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The
installation
consists of two aluminum isolation booths and a cylindrical chamber
connected by video and telephone cabling. Each isolation booth contains
the interface to "paradise": a television and a telephone.
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Telephone
button
presses allow users to "be Adam or Eve in paradise." This "Paradise"
can only be experienced through telepresence via the robotically
augented human actors (cyborgs).
Through these Cyborg Surrogate Selves, participants can touch the grass, the flowers, and the flesh.
Through these Cyborg Surrogate Selves, participants can touch the grass, the flowers, and the flesh.
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The
cylindrical
aluminum chamber located elsewhere in the installation contains a lush,
plant-filled "paradise" and two robotically-augmented actors: the
Cyborg Adam and Eve.
Project
Paradise was exhibited at
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Gallery 937, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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SIGGRAPH 98 Touchware Exhibition, Orlando Florida
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The O.K. Centrum fur Gegenwartzkunst in Linz Austria, as part of Ars Electronica 98.
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MIR: Art In Space (Curators: Ernesto L. Francalanci and Roberto Masiero) in Bolzano, Italy, in Nov 27 - Dec 1 1999
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