The Web of Life artwork allows persons to interactively influence the performance of an audio-visual environment by their imparting to it the unique patterns of their individual hand lines, thus giving symbolic and experiential expression to the action of connecting oneself to an emergent network of relations. This audio-visual environment is formed by an immersive conjunction of projected three-dimensional computer graphic and video images, together with a fully spatialized acoustic experience and a specially conceived architectural surrounding. Interaction is effected via a hand scanning user interface. This artwork is configured as a distributed network of installations - one large-scale environment situated permanently at the ZKM, and four others designed to travel to various locations around the world during the period of the project. User interaction at any location communicates with and affects the audio-visual behavior of all the installations. http://www.web-of-life.de/wolsiteNew/artwork/introStart.html