Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut für Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI)
Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien
Tel.+43-1-53532810,5336112
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gemeinsam mit dem
Institut fuer Medizinische Kybernetik und Artificial Intelligence
der Universitaet Wien
VORTRAG
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Prof.Ken GOLDBERG
University of California
Berkeley, CA
USA
TELEPISTEMOLOGY AND THE AESTHETICS OF TELEPRESENCE -
HOW DISTANCE INFLUENCES BELIEF, TRUTH, AND PERCEPTION
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"We must rediscover a commerce with the world and a
presence to the world that is older than intelligence."
Merleau-Ponty (1945)
I'm interested in the distance between the viewer and what is
being viewed. How does technology alter our perceptions of distance,
scale, and structure? On an epistemological level: "How do I know
this is real?" The visitor of a web site acts and perceives this
"reality" through an instrument with no objective scale.
Several telepresence installations have appeared on the WWW.
The Telegarden (http://telegarden.aec.at), an installation that
allows WWW visitors to view and interact with a remote garden, has
won many awards and is now installed at the Ars Electronica Center
in Linz. A related installation is the Invisible Cantilever
(http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/flw/), a 1/1 millionth
scale version of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
Ken Goldberg is an artist and engineer on the faculty at UC Berkeley.
He has exhibited technology based artwork internationally, Ars
Electronica '96, and his installations have won juried awards at
the Interactive Media Festival, the Festival for Interactive Arts,
New Voices/New Visions, and the National Information Infrastructure
Awards. He was named an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow by Bill
Clinton in 1995.
Zeit: Dienstag, 17.Juni 1997, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort: OeFAI, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien 1.