THE MERCURY PROJECT BY KEN GOLDBERG - ADA

Keywords

aesthetics
- acoustic
- affective
- anamorphic
- animated
- anthropomorph
- assembled
- automated
- autopoietic
- collaborative
- contextual
- cybernetic
- disgusting
- documenting
- duplicated
- dynamic system
- ephemeral
- experimental
- found object
- generative
- gustatory
- hypermediacy
- illusionary
- immaterial
- immersive
- installation-based
- interactive
- intermedial
- intervention
- mobile
- modular
- multi-user
- multiple
- narrative
- navigable
- networked
- olfactory
- panoramatic
- performative
- polysensory
- processual
- projected
- real-time
- remediated
- remixed
- sculptural
- site-specific
- sonification
- sublime
- tactile
- telematic
- three-dimensional
- time-based
- uncanny
- virtual
- visual
genre
- Bio Art
  - Genetic Art
  - Transgenic Art
- Database Art
- Digital Activism
- Digital Animation
- Digital Community (Social Network)
- Digital Graphics
- Game Art
- Glitch Art
- Hybrid Art
- installation
  - interactive installation
  - performative installation
  - sound installation
  - Virtual Reality
    - Augmented Reality
    - Mixed Reality
- Nano Art
- Net Art
- Performance
  - Computer performance
  - Happening
  - multimedia performance
  - sound performance
  - video performance
- robotics
- Telematic Art
subject
- ART AND SCIENCE
  - algorithm
  - anthropology
  - archaeology
  - artificial intelligence
  - astronomy
  - biology
  - botany
  - cartography
  - code
  - combinatorics
  - cyberspace
  - database
  - documentation
  - evidence
  - experiment
  - geography
  - geometry
  - history of science
  - humanities
  - library
  - light
  - machine
  - mathematic
  - medicine
  - microscopy
  - nanotechnology
  - neuroscience
  - philosophy
  - physics
  - psychology
  - Representation of knowledge
  - research
  - science
  - scientific image
  - space
  - statistics
  - stereoscope
- ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE
  - allegory
  - animation
  - architecture
  - art history
  - art market
  - beauty
  - cinema
  - Concept Art
  - conservation
  - dance
  - expanded cinema
  - fashion
  - gaze
  - grid
  - illusion
  - literature
  - mask
  - materiality
  - mirror
  - model
  - museum
  - music
  - nude
  - panopticon
  - panorama
  - personification
  - perspective
  - poetry
  - projection
  - representativeness
  - shadow
  - sketch
  - spectator
  - symbolism
  - theatre
  - Theory
    - complexity
    - media theory
    - modernism
    - postmodernism
    - poststructuralism
    - semiotics
    - simulacrum
  - virtuality
  - visual culture
- BODY AND HUMAN
  - agency
  - anatomy
  - body
  - breathing
  - cybersex
  - cyborg
  - death
  - disease
  - dream
  - embodiment
  - empathy
  - expression
  - eye
  - facial expression
  - fantasy
  - feeling
    - affect
    - emotion
  - gender
  - genetics
  - gesture
  - hand
  - human
  - identity
  - intimacy
  - movement
  - pain
  - perception
  - performativity
  - physiognomy
  - posthuman
  - self awareness
  - senses
  - sexuality
  - skin
  - speech
  - surgery
- HISTORY AND MEMORY
  - ancestor
  - antiquity
  - archive
  - artifacts
  - collective memory
  - colonialism
  - cultural heritage
  - historical site
  - historism
  - history
  - meme
  - memorial
  - modern era
  - nostalgia
  - postcolonialism
  - preservation
  - romanticism
  - teleology
  - tradition
- MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
  - access
  - advertising
  - Big Data
  - broadcast
  - commerce
  - communication
  - electronic media
  - error message
  - film
  - global village
  - hypertext
  - information
  - intermediality
  - internet
  - language
  - media archaeology
  - open source
  - print media
  - radio
  - search engine
  - social media
  - telecommunication
  - telephone
  - television
  - video surveillance
  - visualisation
  - writing
- NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
  - agriculture
  - animal
  - anthropocentrism
  - atmosphere
  - catastrophe
  - DNA
  - earth
  - ecosystem
  - energy
  - environment
  - evolution
  - four elements
  - geology
  - global warming
  - globe
  - landscape
  - magnetism
  - nature
  - ocean
  - outer space
  - physical law
  - plant
  - pollution
  - sustainability
  - vegetation
  - water
  - weather
- POWER AND POLITICS
  - authority
  - banking
  - censorship
  - conspiracy
  - democracy
  - discrimination
  - economy
  - equality
  - geopolitics
  - governance
  - heroism
  - human rights
  - imperialism
  - institution
  - law
  - manipulation
  - market
  - military
  - nationalism
  - patriarchy
  - politics
  - sovereignty
  - surveillance
  - terrorism
  - violence
  - warfare
- RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
  - afterlife
  - Alchemy
  - bible
  - church
  - creation
  - crucifixion
  - esoterism
  - exodus
  - heretic
  - legend
  - mysticism
  - myth
  - mythological creature
  - mythology
  - paradise
  - religion
    - buddhism
    - christianity
    - islam
    - judaism
  - ritual
  - sacrifice
  - Saint
  - sin
  - spirituality
  - vision
  - worship
- SOCIETY AND CULTURE
  - activism
  - capitalism
  - civilisation
  - community
  - consumption
  - counterculture
  - digital identity
  - diversity
  - ethnicity
  - feminism
  - globalization
  - individuality
  - information society
  - interculturalism
  - mass
  - mass culture
    - entertainment
    - parody
    - phantasmagoria
    - popular culture
    - spectacle
  - migration
  - minority
  - morality
  - native
  - otherness
  - participation
  - poverty
  - privacy
  - racism
  - territory
  - unemployment
  - urban space
  - voyeurism
  - wealth
  - working class
- TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
  - artificial life
  - cybernetics
  - development
  - digitization
  - electricity
  - emulation
  - engineering
  - history of technology
  - innovation
  - intelligent environment
  - invention
  - mechanics
  - military technology
  - mobility
  - nonhuman communication
  - optics
  - product design
  - production
  - robot
  - simulation
  - supercomputing
  - technophobia
  - telematics
  - telepresence
Technology
- Display
  - Electronic displays
    - BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
    - CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
    - computer monitor
    - Electromechanical Display Device
    - Electronic Paper
    - flashlight
    - Head-up Display
    - Headphones
    - HMD (Head-mounted Display)
    - holography
    - laser
    - light-emitting diode
    - plasma
    - printer
    - projection screen
    - projector
    - robotic
    - speakers
    - VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
    - VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
  - Non-electronic displays
    - body
    - Book
    - easel painting
    - globe
    - house wall
    - inflatable structure
    - mirror
    - paper
    - sculpture
    - shutter glasses
    - sofa
    - Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
    - table
- Hardware
  - camera
  - computer mouse
  - data glove
  - Joystick
  - MAC
  - Mobile Device
  - multi touchscreen
  - plotter
  - scanner
  - touchscreen
  - Video
  - Virtual Workbench
  - Virtuscope
  - webcam
- interface
  - Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
  - biometrics
  - Body sensor
    - Body Tracking
    - brainwave sensor
    - breathing sensor
    - Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
    - Endoscope
    - eye scanner
    - facial recognition system
    - Motion Capture
    - positiontracker
    - retina scanner
    - Speech Recognition
    - step sensor
  - camera recording
  - electromagnetism
  - interactive media
    - Auditory User Interface (AUI)
    - Augmented Reality Interfaces
    - breath based communication
    - Internet of Things (IoT)
    - Ludic Interface
    - MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
    - Multi-Modal Interaction
    - tactile user interfaces
    - Tangible Acoustic Interface
    - Tangible User Interface (TUI)
    - Voice User interface
  - Non-electronic interface
    - bike
    - doll
    - furniture
    - plant
  - Soundgenerating device
    - Audiotape
    - keyboard
    - microphone
    - musical instrument
    - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
    - Speech Recognition
    - syntheziser
    - telephone
    - Theremin
    - turntable
    - voice analysis
    - Voice User Interface (VUI)
  - virtual balance
- Software
  - C++
  - CGI/Perl
  - CSS
  - Global Positioning System (GPS)
  - ISDN
  - Java
  - Linux
  - Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  - periscope
  - PHP
  - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
  - robotic interfaces
  - SGI Onyx2
  - softimage
  - software interface
  - Video
  - VRML
  - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
  - XML

Information

Ken Goldberg >

»The Mercury Project«, 1994

Co-Workers & Funding:

Co-directors: Ken Goldberg and Michael Mascha
Project team: Steven Gentner, Nick Rothenberg,
Carl Sutter, Jeff Wiegley

http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/

Cite

Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Ken Goldberg - »The Mercury Project«”. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/the-mercury-project.html (retrieved 2009-27-10). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {Ken Goldberg - »The Mercury Project«}, url = {https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/the-mercury-project.html}, urldate = {retrieved 2009-27-10}

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Descriptions & Essays

Mercury Project combined robotics and archaeology in an interactive art installation. To our knowledge, the Mercury Project was the first system that allowed WWW users to remotely view and alter the real world via tele-robotics. Users excavated artifacts buried in a sand-filled terrarium in our laboratory in Los Angeles. All buried artifacts were derived from an unnamed 19th Century text which provided a meta-commentary on science and the Internet. Users were challenged to collectively identify this text by describing their findings and hypotheses in an ongoing Operator's Log.

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