Reva Stone could actually fit both of those categories. On one hand, she’s an artist, functioning out of that oh so creative "right brain," but on the other hand, she’s really into gadgets and technology, making good use of the ol’ "left brain." And she’s not into just any type of gadgets either. She uses X10 gadgets in her work. Everything from motion sensors, to the XCam2.

Her most recent work is a life-sized robot she constructed. This work uses X10 Products to give the robot some autonomy. This is a "life-sized, double aluminum cutout surrogate" robot of Reva as a girl that moves about the gallery. Sandwiched between the two cutouts are the XCam2, and a video projector. From there, the robot can broadcast what Reva calls "memories." These memories are then broadcast so that those around can watch them.

This robot will be shown in several exhibition venues, starting with the Musee d’art Contemporain (Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art) in May. After that, she goes on a national traveling exhibition of her work. And, if that isn’t "Left Brained" enough, she also gives workshops where she teaches the uses of X10 products for interactive art. As she says, "X10 products provide an extremely inexpensive way of making this kind of art wireless."

Reva lives and works in Canada. There she’s an artist in residency at the Banff Center of the Arts in Banff, Alberta. She says, "In this residency are 40 artists from all over the world. I have been showing them the X10 site." For the past 10 years she has developed what she calls "interactive exhibition spaces that respond to the movements of individuals in the gallery space."

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