• Automatically uploads images from whereever a person goes
• Uploads location information via GPS
• Remote viewers can talk to the telepresent via speech synthesis

• A gift of telepresence - each person has it for 1 day 
• Take it to special or ordinary places
• Then they must decide who to give it to
• Leaves of record of where it has been and who has carried it

• Issues - Surveillance, Solitude, Freedom to Wander, Human Networks
• Great innovation in 1997 - now technically easier with picture based mobile phones

• Creates sound, video and kinetic experience based on the positions of all San Francisco MUNI light rail trains
• Uses GPS and track sensors to determine positions via tne NextBus system
• Sounds include train sounds, passenger interviews, ethnic music from the city

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• Links gallery visitors with a real train
• They see location coordinated video that matches what passengers are seeing out the window at that precise time 
• The seats vibrate when the train is moving and stop when the train stops