Color Plate

COLOR PLATE A No. 1. Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, A-Volve, interactive computer installation , 1994. Visitors create and interact with A-Life (in the form of artificial creatures) in a pool. This work features ALife principles in the birth, creation , reproduction and evolution of artificial creatures that display life-like behavior and interact with each other as well as with their environment. (? 1994 Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. Supported by ICC-NTT, Japan, and NCSA, Urbana, IL, U.S.A.) No. 2. Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, Life Spacies, interactive computer installation, 1997. In this environment remotely located visitors via the Internet and on-site visitors at an installation in Tokyo can interact with each other through evolutionary forms and images. (? 1997 Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. Permanent collection of the NTT-ICC InterCommunication Museum, Tokyo, Japan.) COLOR PLATE B No. 1. Paul Friedlander, Dark Matter, interactive light sculpture, 1998. The actions of visitors trigger the sound and action of this work, created with spinning rope and "chromastrobic" light, revealing complex shapes in multi-colored afterimages of light. (? 1998 Paul Friedlander) No. 2. Dirk Rutten and Jeroen Kascha, Satori, interactive light sculpture installation, 1998. In this site-specific installation, visitors approach No 3cott Parsons, Hanooo: Star Calendar, site-specific star map glowing, buzzing cocoon-like objects. As they draw near, the sound and of 1,500 waterjetcut granite stones at light rail station, Denver, the light from the cocoons disappear, as a burst of light produced by Colorado, 71.3 ft long, 1997. Lakota dancerJeremiah Little Soldier thousands of capillary-like light strands overhead creates an immense, dances on the record of a famiiar starscape depicted in a site-spe16 -ft butterfly flickering brilliantly for a few seconds. (? 1998 Dirk cific public artwork embedded in a sidewalk. ( 1997 Scott Par Rutten and Jeroen Kascha. Photo: Wade Zimmerman.)sons. Photo: Ron Ruscio.) ...