monk@sea - encoding the present

Monk@Sea is an interactive artwork which is inspired by Caspar David Friedrichs' painting entitled "The Monk by the Sea" completed in the beginning of the 19th century. The project merges this timeframe as the beginning of the industrial revolution, with the beginnings of digital data transmisson (World War II military cyphering communication) as part of a question about the development of computer technologie and global exchange of information. This piece is availiable on CD-ROM. On the computer-screen or projected on the gallery wall, the monk stands by the sea and as participants attempt to communicate via keyboard, their encoded messages increasingly entangle the monk. in collaboration with Keith Roberson