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* UPDATE: Sensebus Installation opens May 14th 1999 * All networks transcend physical space and disconnect the physicality of interactions. The SenseBus is the next big project of ARG, the Art and Robotics Group, and follows on the success of its first project and show, Space Probe. The goal of SenseBus is to collaboratively create the SenseBus installation: a single unified sensory environment. We will create this single artwork through a series of meetings and production workshops starting now and ending in a show this spring. The project was started with an invitation to participate at the kickoff meeting on Nov 7th 1998 Themes The SenseBus project is encapsulated by the phrase Sense::Transform::Express. SenseBus embodies interactivity, communication, and experience. Information, knowledge and experience flow through an interactive artwork in much the same way as in humans. Our senses gather information about our physical world, our minds transform this information, and we use our physical selves to express this. We see, we consider, we speak. An interactive electronic media installation functions in much the same way. It senses, it transforms, it expresses. Organisation A series of meetings and workshops will produce an exhibition. The exhibition will consist of a single, thematically consistent installation. The SenseBus group will create the artwork as a group. The group's structure will mirror the structure of the artwork: a network of interconnected and communicating participants. The perspectives of many individuals form a whole. The SenseBus is a collaboration and each participant's contribution will be determined by their abilities and goals. Realisation The SenseBus installation will be comprised of a matrix of electric media modules interconnected by the SenseBus network. Each of the modules will Sense, Transform, and Express information. The composition of the network is not fixed. As modules are added or removed, the nature of the whole will change in unpredictable ways. The artwork will be conceptually, physically and operatively one system. It will fill the entire space of the InterAccess gallery in all three dimensions. Visitors will move through the system triggering the senses and experiencing expressions. At times the system will sense the presence of other people in the system and create human interaction scenarios between spatially separated zones of the system. The system does not need visitors to give it life; expressions from modules will be sensed by other modules, creating feedback loops and sustaining complex behaviours. -June, 1998

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $6.2 million in media arts throughout Canada.

Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada, qui a investi 6,2 millions de dollars l'an dernier dans les arts mÈdiatiques a travers le Canada.