EOD 02 _ electric organ discharge 02 :: April 12 - 19, 2008 :: Théâtre de l’Agora, Place de l’Agora - BP 46 F-91002 Evry cedex.

EOD 02 is an installation by Frederik De Wilde created in collaboration with LAb[au]. EOD 02 is a new-media installation exploring the capacity of special species of living blind fishes to perceive (electrosense) their environment and communicate with each other by emitting electric signals, either in pulses or waves. The installation is based on four aquariums of taintless mirror, each presenting a specific composition of fish producing different electric signals. In each aquarium antennas capture the electric communication between the fishes and render these signals into sound. Under each aquarium a matrix of leds is placed pulsing according to the intensity and rhythm of the emitted signals. In this manner the electrical impulses of the fishes drive sound, light and an entire audiovisual space. More info.

Next Nature 2008: The Biggest Visual Power Show - an intellectual show between a conference and a pop concert; from movies to live performance. From physical experience to virtual imagination :: May 17, 2008; 8:00 - 10:00 pm :: Million Dollar Theater, 307 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA.

We are living in a time in which the ‘made’ and the ‘born’ are fusing. Hypoallergenic cats are already on the market. Plants are used as sensors, information displays and chemical factories. Animals are being augmented and branded. Young girls are provided with hypernatural vaginas, modeled after the photoshopped vaginas seen in Playboy magazine. In response to donor organ shortages, researchers are working on a 3D organ printer. Continue reading

Fritz Haeg - Animal Estates :: April 16, 2008; 6:30 pm :: The Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, 265 Massachusetts Ave 3rd Fl (N52-390), Cambridge MA.

The Center is pleased to host Fritz Haeg and his project Animal Estates. While at MIT, Haeg will give a talk on his work and, with the help of MIT students and artists, build one installment of Animal Estates, a new series of dwellings thoughtfully designed to welcome an animal back into the city. These environments are made for displaced wildlife or for animals that have been domesticated. Continue reading

Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What’s up with your plant? It offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates that reach you anywhere in the world. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love. Twitter is social software that asks a simple question: What are you doing?

Botanicalls is a system that was developed to allow plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the plants orient callers to their habits and characteristics. Call 212.202.8348 to hear more about each of the plants. What you need >>.

How did you come up with the idea for making an animated geoglyph? Why did you choose to make a walking figure? What does it mean to you?

Last year I began my honors thesis, which is series of conceptually-based animations. As I investigated the history and process of animation, I decided to concentrate on animation as it is integrated with new technology. As a part of this series, inspired by a class called “computing in the wild”, I decided to use GPS technology. Continue reading

The Owl Project explores technologies to augment our understanding of bird populations in order to allow these populations to speak to us about their habitat. In particular, in a collaboration between the MIT Media Laboratory and Maine Audubon, we use cellular technology to augment the process by which volunteers collect information for an annual owl survey in Maine. The core methodology was developed in a regional pilot census of Connecticut’s owl population in the summer of 2006, demonstrating that the audio quality of cell phones is sufficient for the discovery and interaction with owls. Continue reading

Nature Version 2.0: Ecological Modernities and Digital Environmentalism :: January 21 – February 16, 2008 :: Opening: February 8, 2008; 5–7 pm :: Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. :: Works by Natalie Jeremijenko, Brooke Singer, Joline Blais, Tom Sherman, Jane Marsching, Don Miller (aka no carrier), Colin Ives, Alex Galloway, Amy Franceschini, Michael Alstad, and Andrea Polli.

Nature Version 2.0 is a survey of artists who reinvent environmentalism for a digital age in a number of ways: by examining how digital technologies can make ecological problems more salient, by reusing and recycling obsolete technologies for new uses, and by exploring how digital spaces and the public domain may require environmental protection much like nature. Continue reading

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Message in a Bottle: From Ramsgate to The Chatham Islands by Layla Curtis - On May 25, 2004, fifty bottles containing messages were released into the sea off the south-east coast of England near Ramsgate Maritime Museum, Kent. The intended destination of the bottles is The Chatham Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands, which are 800km east of mainland New Zealand, are the nearest inhabited land to the precise location on the opposite side of the world to Ramsgate Maritime Museum. It is anticipated that the bottles may be found several times before reaching the Chatham Islands. Continue reading

Lisa Roberts is researching ways of animating the Antarctic landscape as a communitarian response to its texts, working with the notion of animation in its broadest sense of bringing to life, or breathing life into (our understanding) of its changing nature. She believes that working on-line and in dialogue with Antarctic texts, the expeditioners who composed them, and other artists can be a way to imaginatively map Antarctica. Continue reading