#telegarden

``The Telegarden creates a physical garden as an environment to stage social interaction and community in virtual space. The Telegarden is a metaphor for the care and feeding of the delicate social ecology of the net.'' -- Randall Packer, San Jose Museum of Art, April 1998.

TeleGarden

TELEGARDEN "The Telegarden is an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm." Fuente: http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/garden/Ars/

gotta go find that book,,

Telegarden

The TeleGarden was a telerobotic community garden that could be managed by remote 'gardeners' via the Internet. The project was launched at the University of Southern California in 1995, before being moved to the Ars Electronica centre in Austria the following year, where it remained active until 2004. Over 10,000 people joined the TeleGardening community across its lifespan, and 100,000 people visited the physical exhibit. Some users became protective of particular patches that they tended to, or to individual plants that they had nurtured. The creators of the TeleGarden, Ken Goldberg and Joseph Santarromana, viewed the garden's sheer absurdity as a challenge to the legitimacy of the Internet. How could remote users know that the garden even existed? Media technology, they explained, is all about the suspension of disbelief.