Telegarden

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TeleGarden
Telegarden
Type of site
Telerobotics
Available inEnglish
Created byKen Goldberg and Joseph Santarromana
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJune 1995; 28 years ago (1995-06)
Current statusOffline

The TeleGarden was a

Adept-1[1] industrial robotic arm
controlled online.

History

The project began at the

art installation challenging the notion of the Internet[4] and "consider[ing] the 'post-nomadic' community, where survival favors those who work together."[2]

Project members included George A. Bekey, Steven Gentner, Rosemary Morris, Carl Sutter, Jeff Wiegley, and Erich Berger.[2][5] The Telegarden went online in June 1995. During its first year, it attracted over 9000 members.

Ars Electronica Center in Austria where it was originally planned to be on display for one year,[2] though it ended up remaining active until August 2004 (2004-08).[5]

The Telegarden was a fusion between old technology (agriculture) and new technology (the Internet). The notion of a physical garden that is operated by users online was appealing to Goldberg because "it was the most absurd".[6]

This new media art raised questions of legitimacy. How are users to know that the garden actually exists, or that any of their motions matter? Goldberg stressed that, "media technology generally facilities the suspension of disbelief."[7]

In its nine years, the installation had 10,000 members, and 100,000 people visited the physical exhibit. Users interactivity created a miniature social network. People became protective of plants, even territorial.[8]

References

  1. Ars Electronica Center. Archived from the original
    on 1997-04-11. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
  2. ^ a b c d e "The Telegarden". Archived from the original on 2005-04-05. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
  3. ^ "Zingmagazine 2". Archived from the original on 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
  4. ^ Ken Goldberg - Mark Tribe - Brown University Wiki
  5. ^ a b "The Telegarden Website". Archived from the original on 2019-03-02. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
  6. ^ "The Telegarden Website". goldberg.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  7. ^ Telegarden Description from YouTube
  8. S2CID 11326814
    .

Further reading

External links
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