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Born in Ibadan, Nigeria, 1961 Lives in San
Francisco
Ouija 2000, 2000
ouija.berkeley.edu
Website commissioned by the University
of California Berkeley Art Museum and originally presented
as Ken Goldberg/MATRIX 186/Ouija 2000. Courtesy Catherine
Clark Gallery, San Francisco Project team: Billy Chen, Rory
Solomon, Steve Bui, Bobak Farzin, Jacob Heitler, Derek Poon,
Gordon Smith; Graphic design: Gil Gershoni; Illustration:
Dave Garvey; Flash: Paulina Wallenberg Olsson Ouija 2000 was
created by Ken Goldberg in collaboration with engineers and
designers at the University of California, Berkeley, where
he is an industrial engineering professor. Visitors to the
website manipulate a real Ouija board, located in Goldberg's
lab, by moving the mouse on their computer. A live streaming
video of the board's progress is visible on the web page.
Equating occult mysticism with the web, the artist slyly critiques
the mystification of new technologies and satirizes an uncritical
reliance on the Internet as a source of information.
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