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What: Teleporting An Unkown State (New Web-only version) Who: Eduardo Kac
Where: Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia
When: From October 24 to November 7, 1998 Web: http://www.kibla.org/ekac

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Short Description: This is a web interactive installation that allows web participants to send light from eight areas of the world to a single seed planted in the Multimedia Center Kibla Art Gallery, in Maribor. The seed depends on light sent by web parti cipants to be able to do photosynthesis and grow in a completely dark room. This work uses the notion of teleportation of particles (photons) to create the metaphor of the Internet as a life-supporting system. Requirements: No plug-ins or downloads are required to participate in Teleporting An Unknown State. However, the specific configuration of your browser and operating system may affect your experience of the work. We tested Teleporting An Unknown State on several configurations. It works well on Netscape 3 and some versions of Netscape 4, including version 4.05. If you are using Explorer, please press the Refresh button (at the top; to the left of the Home button) to make sure you see the image updates. If you are logging on with WindowsNT, please disable cache permission at the OS level.

Short Technical description: The 9-image grid is comprised of a central image and eight surrounding images. The central image shows the physical space at the gallery, in Maribor, and is updated automatically (to provide feedback to web participants). The surrounding images are activated by web participants at will and immediately projected onto the earth, where the seed is planted, in the gallery. The central image is captured and uploaded automatically with a self-contained camera server. When projected, this image concentrates the light sent by web participants and projects it onto the seed. The eight surrounding images are automatically captured by the KIBLA server from webcams around the world and made available every five minutes. They are uploaded i nteractively upon the web participant's request. The default state of this work is a central image surrounded by black rectangles (which are filled with live images when requested by the participant). If you see a black image when you log on, either it is dark at the moment at the selected geographic location or the corresponding image was not selected by the previous web participant. Once selected by the web participant, an image remains active (online and in the gallery) for five minutes. After this per iod it is replaced by a black rectangle, to enable incoming participants to make their own choices.

Full description of the first version (1994/96): http://ekac.org/teleporting.html

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A bilingual 88-page catalogue is available (ISBN 961-6304-00-3). To purchase it, please contact Peter Tomaz Dobrila at: peco@kibla.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For more information, please contact:
Peter Tomaz Dobrila
Head of MC KIBLA
Narodni dom - Multimedia center KiberSRCeLab - KIBLA Kneza Koclja 9
2000 Maribor Slovenia
e-mail: peco@kibla.org
http://www.kibla.org
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