Remote

**Project Name:** Remote (2007) **Project Credits:** Usman Haque with Neill Donaldson, Ai Hasegawa and Georg Tremmel **Project Brief Description:** 'Remote' connects together two spaces, one in Boston the other in Second Life (virtual platform), and treats them as a single contiguous environment, bound together by the internet so that things that occur in one space affect things that happen in the other and vice versa - remotely controlling each other. Communication between the two halves of this extended environment is a complex choreography, coupling the environmental phenomena of humidity, temperature, light, speech, mist, wind, sound and proximity across the two. The object in Boston appears to be a seat; but, experientially, the Second Life space appears to be inside the seat. A similar alteration of scale occurs in the other direction. Visitors to the Boston space and the Second Life space must negotiate to achieve goals: e.g. by sitting down, breathing, touching, knocking, and colliding.  **Relevant Web Addresses:** [|**http://www.haque.co.uk/remote.php**] **Project Analysis** media type="custom" key="10662992"