This is what she looks like.	Alice Sat Here Ricco/Maresca Gallery	VirtuAlice Chi97
This is what she remembers.

This is what she is VirtuAlice's key component was a wireless telerobotic webcam mounted on a chauffeured motorized chair with a tiny monitor which directed the driver.Users on the web or passersby could control its movement. Passersby used touch pads for control which were attached to the storefront window surrounding a monitor that had a camera sewn into a card which fed back to the participants their image, superimposing it on the image of the interior space. Sobell and Emily Hartzell, her principle collaborator, described the piece as "a passage between physical and cyber space".

This is what she means VirtuAlice is a passage between physical and cyber space. We converge from web-side and street-side, explore parallel spaces separated by glass, and peer through the membrane at each other's representations. We control aspects of each other's environment and perform a collaborative dance in between. We wonder with Alice at the keyhole to Webland, "What good are our heads without our shoulders?" N.Sobell/E.Hartzell

This diagram describes the anatomy of Alice Sat Here, an installation by Nina Sobell and Emily Hartzell (ParkBench) at the CODE Show, curated by Roz Dimon, at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery Oct-Dec, 1995. Created at New York University Center for Advanced Technology in collaboration with David Bacon, Fred Hansen, Kimberly Neuhaus, and Toto Paxia. Thanks New York University, NYU Center for Advanced Technology, Professor Ken Perlin, Cynthia Allen, fly.net, MicroTouch Systems Inc., Joe Arcidiacono, Theo Crimona, Art Johnson, George Kondogianis, David Max, Daniele Russo, Randall Rustin, Eliza Schwarz, Professor Naoko Tanese, Professor Richard Wallace VirtuAlice In March 1997 we redesigned Alice, as VirtuAlice, and presented her at CHI97 (Computer-Human Interaction Conference) and Interfaces97. This redesign of hardware and software was done by Digital Image Design. Thanks to Roel Hammerschlag, Hai Ng, Juey Ong, and Brad Paley. Back to ParkBench