"Today after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a Global Embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned." - Marshall McLuhan

Mori is an Internet-based earthwork that engages the earth as a living medium. In this installation, minute movements of the Hayward Fault in California are detected by a seismograph, converted to digital signals, and transmitted continuously via the Internet to the installation. The title links the Japanese term for "forest-sanctuary" with the Latin "reminder of mortality." In Mori, the immediacy of the telematic embrace between earth and visitor questions the authenticity of mediated experience in the context of chance, human fragility, and geological endurance.

In collaboration with Ken Goldberg and Gregory T. Kuhn

Ken Goldberg's Project Website: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/mori/