mementomori: an internet-based earthwork




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ken goldberg
berkeley, california, usa

In this limited edition art installation, minute movements of the Hayward Fault in California are detected by a seismograph, converted to digital signals, and transmitted continuously via the Internet. Live data courtesy of the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab. Special thanks to Wojciech Matusik for first implementation in Java (1998) and David Nachum to second implementation in Flash (2008). Thanks also to Randall Packer and Gregory Kuhn for collaborations on the Mori Acoustic Installation, and to Muriel Maffre, Vijay Vasudavan, Ben Pierce, Randall Packer and Gregory Kuhn, and the San Francisco Ballet for contributions to Ballet Mori, and to Lind Gee, Doug Neuhouser, Barbara Romanowicz of the Berkeley Seismographic Lab. frequently asked questions, photos of the seismometer, link to Ken Goldberg's home page.

mementomori is represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery.