Telegarden

inception: 2001

Description

The Telegarden was an art installation that allowed web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Anyone online could plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm.

attributed to: Rhizome staff

inception: 2021

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Have you ever tended your garden from 3000 miles away? You will.

attributed to: Ken Goldberg

inception: 19 August 2001

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The TeleGarden is the most absurd application of technology we could think of; cultivating a garden by remote control.
"Il faut cultiver notre jardin." Voltaire

attributed to: Ken Goldberg

inception: 19 August 2001

Legacy descriptive tags

Ken Goldberg, Ars Electronica, Telegarden

Attribution: Ken Goldberg

Telematic, Participatory, offline, surveillance, robot, nature, live, interact, community, HTML, Visual, Text

Attribution: Rhizome staff

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artist: Ken Goldberg

title: Telegarden

inception: 2001