mementomori: an internet-based earthwork
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.
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