| The Mediaterra Proposal |

| Distance, Recognition and AI. |

| The RCX as a VIRT object. |

| Distance to VIRT object: does it matter ? |

| Is AI distant from other Intelligence ? |

| Is the distance the AI ? |

| Is AI remote controlled Intelligence ? |

| The topics above are intented to be explored during the Mediaterrra Festival and Symposium in Athens, Greece, November 2000 .

| Background

| The results from the research on AI | Artistic Intelligence | have been shown in Switzerland, December 1999 - January 2000 and in Bulgaria, March 2000.

Both presentations required to move either the complete research environment | Aarau | and or at least the RCX 468059 | Sofia |.

| In July, RCX has been entered into the Mindstorms Database.

| Two more presentations to be given in Switzerland | Baden, August-September 2000, Spreitenbach, September-Oktober 2000 | will involve RCX 490886, a new build version able to navigate within a given area without any human interacting.

| To successfully research on the topis above, the following is required:

| To build a remote research environment accessible from the Internet.

| To research on more complex patterns.

| To loop complex patterns into VIRT.

| To meet the requirements the following missions have to be accomplished:

| Built an environment for development of remote controlled RCX programming and navigation at Werft22, Baden, Switzerland.

| Contact the LEGO Group, Denmark, to obtain access to the source code to bring the mission control online.

| Implement mission control online at Werft22, Baden, Switzerland.

| Contact the LEGO Group, Bilund, Denmark, to obtain a preliminary version of Vision Command.

| Get familiar with Vision Command to loop into VIRT.

| Build an AI related Database.

| Organize to have environement rebuild at Fournos, Athens, Greece.

| Ship the RCX as a VIRT object to Fournos, Athens, Greece.

| Establish communication over the Internet for remote operations.

| Discuss topics at the Mediaterra Symposium.

| Upload results from Mediaterra to Database.