mori an internet-based earthwork

ken goldberg, randall packer, gregory kuhn

Minute movements of the Hayward Fault in California are detected by a seismograph,

converted to digital signals, and transmitted continuously via the Internet to an acoustic

installation. The resonating enclosure responds to the unpredictable fluctuations of the earth...

Dislocation of Intimacy, 1996

mori

(acoustic installation, 1999 -)

holbein

memento mori ``All flesh is grass.'' -- Isaiah (40:6)

New York Times, 11 April 2003

“…At the Kitchen, a MIDI system programmed with a mix of natural sounds (rock slides, volcanic eruptions, thunderclaps) translates the fluctuations of the earth into loud roars and crashes. … Mori reinvests the popular superlative ‘awesome’ with some of its original weight.”

Roberta Smith

Mori exhibition history• ICC Biennale, Tokyo, 1999

• San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (CA), Feb-March 2001

• Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (CA), May-July 2001

• Austin Museum of Art, Austin (TX), July-Sept 2001

• Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta (GA), Oct-Nov 2001

• Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City (OK), Sept-Nov 2002

• The Kitchen, New York City (NY), March-April 2003

• Colorado University Museum, Boulder (CO), Feb-March 2005

• Arlington Contemporary Art Center, Nov-Dec 2005

• San Jose Museum of Art ?