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David Rokeby - Media Installation Artist

installation shot of n-cha(n)t (2001) - Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts

David Rokeby is a sound and video installation artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has been creating interactive installations since 1982. He has focussed on interactive pieces that directly engage the human body, or that involve artificial perception systems. His work has been performed / exhibited in shows across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia, including:

He was awarded the first Petro-Canada Award for Media Arts in 1988, the Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art (Austria) in 1991 and 1997 (with Paul Garrin), and the first BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award for Interactive Art. He has recently been awarded a 2002 Governor General's award in Visual and Media Arts.

One of his interactive systems, Very Nervous System, is being used to enable a paralyzed woman to speak and write. It is also currently being used by composers, video artists, and medical facilities in many parts of the world. He continues to work on his ongoing installation entitled "The Giver of Names", a system that describes objects presented to it in poetic and metaphoric ways.

Installations - information about my installations
Current Shows - recent, current, and upcoming exhibitions of my work
Texts - texts and article I have written about my work and interaction in general
softVNS - information about the VNS video motion tracking system used in much of my work
Interactive Art - links to other pages related to interactive art
Images - higher quality images of some of my work (for catalogs and PR)
CV and Bio - David Rokeby's biography and curriculum vitae.
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