Fractal Flesh

At the November 1995 "Telepolis" event, Paris (the Pompidou Centre), Helsinki (The Media Lab) and Amsterdam (for the Doors of Perception Conference) were electronically linked through a performance website allowing the audience to remotely access, view and actuate the body via a computer-interfaced muscle-stimulation system based at the main performance site in Luxembourg.

Although the body's movements were involuntary, it could respond by activating its robotic Third Hand. Two SGI Indy workstations input images to a website so that the performance could be monitored live on the Net. Web server statistics indicated the event was also watched in S.E. Asia, North America and Europe.

PERFORMANCE CREDITS

Troy Innocent - Software Design
Gary Zebington - Remote Body-Control Software

Kathy Rae Huffman - Remote Site Coordinator
Thomas Shoenherr - Communications
Curd Duca - Sound Installation
Oliver Frommel - Telepolis Webmaster
Keisuke Oki - Performance Assistant

Acknowledgements to :
Telepolis
Luxembourg Telecom
Goethe Institute
Centre de Recherche, Public Henri Tudor
Munich Media Lab
Merlin Integrated Media

Telepolis Conception Design & Management :
Stephan Iglhaut
Florian Roetzer
Armin Medosch

Footscray City Secondary College - Avid Post -Production
Michael Scholl - Editor