Artists Statement

Open I/O is a suite of software services and applications for composing and running distributed physical media in a way that enables people to exchange data over the Internet. By using this system, artists and designers can collaborate and take advantage of high-level social and economic information while creating low-level physical interactions. By enabling social interactions through networked electronic objects, Open I/O lets people explore the intersection of material culture (things, physicality) and ideology (ideas, values).

[Remark: See ISEA2006 Paper with the same title]

• Burak Arikan: Cambridge, MA., USA: Master of Arts and Sciences degree at the MIT Media Laboratory, MA in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University. BS in Civil Engineering from Yildiz Technical University.
• Vincent Leclerc: Montreal, Canada: Master of Arts and Sciences degree at the MIT Media Laboratory in the Tangible Media Group. Designer and developer at the XS lab in Montreal.