“Secret Agents” is concerned with the creation of a cyborgic virtual being, an “agent” who represents and reflects the consciousness and concensus of the UCDARNet collaborative team. The project is a remotely inhabited and site specific net-based performance that uses a distributed personae to investigate and play out notions of agents and agency, presence and absence, identity and indentification. Using both telepresent and robotic applications, a semi-autonomous biomorphic human inerface will act on behalf of the group reflecting the collective ideas and intelligence of UCDARNet.

SECRET AGENT: Karen Black

PARTICIPANTS: Shawn Brixey, UC Berkeley, Robert Nideffer, UC Irvine, Sharon Daniel, UC Santa Cruz, Victoria Vesna, UC Los Angeles, Fabian Wagmister, UC Los Angeles, Carol Hobson, UC San Diego November 2000.