the
habituation cage was a 24 hour, site specific performative experiment
organized and masterminded by Sara Diamond of Code Zebra and enacted
at the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in Rotterdam, March 2003.
I was locked in
the paraSITE structure for 24 hours with Tom Donaldson, another inventor.
In our time together,
we detailed many possible inventions, approaches, formulae, and artworks
for exploring issues surrounding technology and intimacy, time and space
in games, and other fabulous topics.
Tthe Dutch Electronic Art Festival is an international and interdisciplinary
bi-annual festival organized by V2_Organisation in Rotterdam (Netherlands),
the Institute for the Unstable Media. DEAF presents an exhibition of
interactive installations, WWW-sites, CD-ROMs and live performances,
seminars, workshops and an academic symposium. The event brings together
a varied group of visitors, artists and critics from home and abroad
and attracts a growing and diversifying audience. DEAF has established
itself as one of the major European media art events. It is a showcase
for recent, in part specially commissioned artwork, as well as a forum
for critical debate. The festival creates synergies between different
art disciplines and fields like robotics, architecture, bio-technology
or economics.