“ 'Teleporting an Unknown State' is the title of my biotelelmatic instillation…[which] combined biological growth with Internet activity…The installation created the experience of the Internet as a life-supporting system…The poetics of this piece’s network topology operated 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, [the instillation] created a new situation in which several individuals in remote countries transmitted light to a single point in the [museum]. The ethics of Internet ecology and network community were made evident in a distributed and collaborative effort. During the show, photosynthesis depended on remote collective action from anonymous participants. Birth, growth and death on the Internet formed a horizon of possibilities that unfolded as participants dramatically contributed to the work."
Eduardo Kac
Telepresence and Bio Art
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