SOFT CONTROL » David Bowen http://arhiv.kiblix.org/kiblix2012/softcontrol Just another WordPress site Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:11:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 David Bowen http://arhiv.kiblix.org/kiblix2012/softcontrol/?p=45 http://arhiv.kiblix.org/kiblix2012/softcontrol/?p=45#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:57:08 +0000 samo http://kiblix.org/kiblix2012/?p=45 This installation consists of a series of autonomous helium-filled blimps whose movements are determined by small communities of houseflies. The flies are the brain of each of the devices, determining how they interact and respond to the space and the other devices. Up to 50 houseflies live within chambers attached to each blimp unit. These chambers contain food, water as well as sensors that detect the movements of the flies. In real-time this information is sent to motorized propellers that direct the devices within the space. The wandering blimps are separate but intersecting community vehicles. The flies exist in their own self-contained worlds creating an amplified expression of group behavior.

Credits: Akvarij-Terarij Maribor

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https://twitter.com/flycolony

This installation will send twitter messages based on the activities of a large swarm of houseflies. The houseflies will live inside an acrylic sphere along with a computer keyboard. As the flies move and interact inside their acrylic sphere home they will fly over the keys on the keyboard. These movements will be collected in real-time via video. As a particular key is flown over by the flies the key’s corresponding character is entered into a twitter text box. When 140 characters are reached in the text box or the flies fly over the “enter” key the message containing the accumulated characters is tweeted. Thus twitter messages are sent in real-time based on the predilections of the flies.

Credits: Thanks to Andrew Spitz for the Max to Twitter tutorial, Christopher Baker for help with Java Script; and Akvarij-Terarij Maribor.

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