Memento mori >>
Ken Goldberg
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[Intro] Memento Mori: An Interface to the Earth, created by Ken Goldberg, brings the
slight movements of the Earth, via Internet, to the website in real time.
Memento Mori displays streaming seismographic data measured continuously from
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site near the Hayward Fault above University of California at Berkeley. The
earthquake detector is a Streckeisen STS-1 seismometer that measures vertical
ground velocity. Data is collected by the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and
relayed to a server in the Alpha Lab.
Try as we might to intellectually grasp the time scale and microscopic
distances of plate tectonics, the geologic process involved in the formation of
the continents, it takes a massive example of the Earths energy, such as an
earthquake, to impress upon us that the earth is an active force. By creating
his "Interface to the Earth" to be reminiscent of the vital signs of a health
monitor, Goldberg viscerally establishes the earth as living, even fragile, and
needing to be protected.
The visual online interface was created by Ken Goldberg and Wojciech Matusik in
1998 and exhibited as Memento Mori.
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